Example sentences of "if it were [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet puts her head on Jen 's shoulder , her long straight strange hair fanning across Jen 's breast as if it were her own hair , and her own short , coppery/gingery hair stops standing on end at the ghost in the wood and begins to flow loose . |
| 2 | ‘ The trouble is she feels as if it were her fault . |
| 3 | Her breast felt hollow , as if it were her heart she had buried ; but she could move and speak , still . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope you 'll be at the funeral , ’ said Viola in her grand way , as if it were her show and there 'd be cocktails afterwards . |
| 5 | ’ Melissa was about to point out that Angy 's tender heart had not prevented her from flaunting Rick 's ring as if it were her own , nor had she intervened to protect Barney from hurt , but she merely said , ‘ It was enough to make anyone angry . ’ |
| 6 | He glared at her , as if it were her fault she could n't remember . |
| 7 | However , he concludes sportingly : ‘ If it were me , I 'd buy an Apple Macintosh . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Frankly , if it were me , I would . |
| 9 | if it were me , if it were you , we 'd drink up |
| 10 | If it were me I should want to … ’ |
| 11 | yeah I think the er what I , if , if it were me , I 'm not saying this is the , you know , the way to do it , if it |
| 12 | Figure 1 A reed warbler feeding a young cuckoo as if it were its own offspring ( Photo : I. Wyllie ) . |
| 13 | A goose which follows a human being round as if it were its parent does not have its sexual behaviour anything like so disturbed ; when it grows up it will court other geese . |
| 14 | It was necessarily disturbed when the United States treated the United Nations as if it were its own exclusive " club " . |
| 15 | Could n't , no I could n't , I wonder if it were him ? so , she 's my bloody . |
| 16 | The argument is not that the check is fallible , for if it were we might still hope that enough memories could be got to prop each other up , as Ayer suggests ( Ayer , 1954 ) . |
| 17 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 18 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 19 | One nice Tory gentleman tells me ‘ I 've done this for all the parties in my time , you know , ’ as if it were something to be proud of . |
| 20 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 21 | A gang of black workers wearing white loincloths faced the camera gravely , looking as if it were something they might be given to eat . |
| 22 | They also avoid the division of parts , as if it were something of extreme difficulty , and forget altogether that it is by no means necessary to have all the voices singing all the time . |
| 23 | Caro had noticed before the way her mother always avoided referring to the accident and Caro 's time in hospital , almost as if it were something obscene . |
| 24 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 25 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 26 | Each scrap of news any one of them had about themselves or their immediate family — child , husband , dog , cat , Bendix dishwasher , a new dress or pair of shoes , the price of every article they bought — was as fascinating to each other as if it were their very own ; and any little thing out of Great Meadow was pure binding . |
| 27 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 28 | Doctor Hensman was still in charge , making solemn authoritative pronouncements and predictions , and behaving as if it were he who had cured the patient . |
| 29 | ‘ If it were he why should he be attacked in the forest ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He straightened one or two things out in my action , worked on my technique a bit , but the most important thing he taught me was to concentrate on every single delivery as if it were he most important in your life . |