Example sentences of "if it was a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 2 | If it was a child I 'd say here you sit up properly . |
| 3 | Tommy listened , nodding , as if it was a story he 'd heard before . |
| 4 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 5 | But , unfortunately , she soon realised that if it was a nightmare it was a living nightmare . |
| 6 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 7 | If it was a mistake she was committed to it now . |
| 8 | ‘ If it was a mistake it is their fault , ’ said Andrew . |
| 9 | His grandmother said if it was a fact he would not get a grant she would finance him but that he should find out . |
| 10 | The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place . |
| 11 | This was very important — if it was a woman I would walk right out again — I wanted someone young — a kind of ‘ big brother ’ image . |
| 12 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |
| 13 | Other times , though , if it was a student who stuck with me for a couple of years , eventually they would get interested in reading in some form . |
| 14 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 15 | ‘ And if it was a pay-off it did n't do him any good . ’ |
| 16 | In effect , if it was a profession it was a profession in name only ( a point made indirectly by my lecturer who studiously avoided use of the word ) . |
| 17 | I hate people that erm when my dad burps , if , if it was a cup he 'd go excuse me , but but it 's when they go I hate that ! |
| 18 | Life is a gamble , at terrible odds — if it was a bet you would n't take it . |
| 19 | I laughed not scornfully or anything , but just as if it was a joke which I 'd only half got . |