Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] if it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 2 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 3 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 4 | Eventually , thunder rumbled in the distance , and he looked up and asked if it was gun-fire ; when I said I thought not , he moved to the door saying , ‘ If Mr Colin recommends them , I 'll take all three ’ . |
| 5 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 6 | We saw a lady wading towards it and inquired if it was hers . |
| 7 | Along at Moness House James Flemyng and his wife looked at each other apprehensively and wondered if it was time to bar the shutters . |
| 8 | He looked at his watch again and wondered if it was time to intervene . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't know , ’ said Dot and wondered if it was anything like princesses . |
| 10 | Although her reports usually arrived by post , she brought them along in person on one occasion , because she had written a poem and wondered if it was worthy of publication . |
| 11 | Meredith could n't see it properly in the absence of proper street-lights and wondered if it was Tom Fearon 's Mercedes . |
| 12 | Her eyes seemed to have changed , seeing the half-mortals like giants made of pure light ; she could feel a cold clear air in her face , and wondered if it was the wind in which they moved . |
| 13 | I opened his razor in the bathroom to rub the powered residue of his beard in my fingers , and wondered if it was still growing on his dead face . |
| 14 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
| 15 | He found Aunt Tossie most agreeable , and wondered if it was true that she was very rich . |
| 16 | He could smell fish cooking and wondered if it was Faustina 's coley , then realised that in view of the conversation about the finest minced veal it was more likely to be something for themselves . |
| 17 | He was silent , but she could sense anger burning slowly inside him and wondered if it was directed at her . |
| 18 | I shivered and wondered if it was time for old Shallot to disappear or go ill with ague , but I remembered my promise . |
| 19 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |