Example sentences of "if [pron] [adv] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sinead 's interview , she proposed a motion which says : ‘ If everyone else was going to do it , would you be prepared to live without money ? ’ |
| 2 | One might suppose it was already quite strong even if nothing else was done , especially so far as CD-ROM is concerned . |
| 3 | All Marr really knew was that Morrissey had written a book about The New York Dolls and was quite prepared to spend the next hour talking about them if nothing else was to stem from the meeting . |
| 4 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 5 | If I still was going down I 'd do it like that |
| 6 | I found myself formalizing my speech , as if I too was pretending to be in a drawing-room of forty years before . |
| 7 | Unfortunately Wisden at that time did not put symbols against the name of the wicketkeeper to tell if someone else was roped in to keep . |
| 8 | If someone else was paying rates on your behalf then you may still be counted as a ratepayer so check with your council if you are unsure whether you qualify . |
| 9 | If somebody else was trying to book it , one of those Welshy types , they have n't got the sense to ask |
| 10 | I did cos I thought well if nobody else was eating it , I might as well eat it . |
| 11 | If she really was trying to convince anyone , it was probably her father , Rory realised , but she was n't about to hand Adam that kind of ammunition on a plate . |
| 12 | It was clearly intended as a question about her personal life , and , after a short hesitation , she decided that he had the right to an answer , if she really was going to take the job — and she now suspected gloomily that she was . |
| 13 | Even if the second pre-condition is met , Albert Reynolds is unlikely to go further than to promise that a referendum would be held , if everything else was agreed . |
| 14 | King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " . |
| 15 | All the same it was n't easy to stop herself from wondering if he too was having difficulties in not remembering what had happened over the last forty-eight hours . |
| 16 | Roman sounded as if he too was battling for restraint , as well as controlling a degree of amusement , which made her fists clench in despair . |
| 17 | If anything else was to happen , so be it . |
| 18 | If anything more was promised informally or verbally the American version remains classified . |