Example sentences of "if [pers pn] was [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me Mrs Asmoyah was ‘ critical ’ — hospitals are only generous with the truth when it 's bad — and if I was her husband , father , mother or sole blood relative , I could visit her any time , but preferably after 7.0 a.m . |
| 2 | Long , black , fat-bellied and red-eyed , the bastards watched me hungrily as if I was their next meal . |
| 3 | The desire to be everything for somebody , the yearning for ultimate closeness , reached its lunatic peak in the sublime schizophrenia of ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ ; ‘ if I was your one and only friend would U run to me if somebody hurt U even if that somebody was me ? ’ |
| 4 | The desire to be everything for somebody , the yearning for ultimate closeness , reached its lunatic peak in the sublime schizophrenia of ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ ; ‘ if I was your one and only friend would U run to me if somebody hurt U even if that somebody was me ? ’ |
| 5 | With ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ he created another identity for himself ( ‘ Camille ’ ) by subjecting his vocal to studio wizardry that tweaked it up to an androgynous 55 rpm . |
| 6 | I felt as if I was your mother and you were my child . |
| 7 | ‘ If I was your dad I 'd fancy anyone — hic — rather than you , ’ said Martins . |
| 8 | Yeah but she does it like she said though I mean if I was your mum , I said to her if I was , I would just give it to her . |
| 9 | You 'll have to go into the branch , but what , if I was your manager , I 'd say well what we 'll do , is keep on working and training , until it 's alright |
| 10 | But immediately monitoring is coming into play here , if I was your manager , but the computer will do this by the way , but your manager will spot that and say , have you made those fifty calls . |
| 11 | ‘ If I was his manager I would offer Lewis $8m for the fight . |
| 12 | ‘ If I was his manager I would offer Lewis $8m for the fight . |
| 13 | But seriously , I know what I 'd do if I was HIS manager , and the sooner that the authorities wake up to the fact that THERE IS a leeds united discussion list , a bit of a to-do if you ask me , the better it will be for the game … |
| 14 | Well if I was his manager , what would I be working on ? |
| 15 | ‘ Well , that was a nice little scene I interrupted , ’ she said , glaring at Claudia as if she was her mortal enemy . |
| 16 | If she was her mother 's sort then she would never never get among the life that everybody else seemed to get . |
| 17 | ‘ If she was our daughter she would n't be in this mess , ’ Whitlock retorted . |
| 18 | ‘ I doubt if she was your mother . ’ |
| 19 | The American Mary Vorse published her remarkable Autobiography of an Elderly Woman in 1911 , which reflects at length on the reversal of roles that left her ‘ contriving to get my own way , for all the world like a naughty , elderly child , while my daughter was worrying about my headstrong ways as if she was my mother instead of my being hers . ’ |
| 20 | I know what I 'd do if she was my missus . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I lost a daughter and God knows I 'm going to hold on to my niece as if she was my own instead . ’ |
| 22 | Any edge that gave me would not last for long , and if I was going to protect my client , if she was my client , I 'd better get on with it . |
| 23 | I said I 'd prefer a man because women were a problem area for me and I was frightened I 'd push the therapist into a certain role by flirting with her if she was young and attractive , or feeling dependent on her if she was my mother 's age . |
| 24 | If she was his daughter he 'd give her a smack she would n't forget in a hurry . |
| 25 | ‘ If you was her you 'd be getting the same treatment . |
| 26 | If something did not go right , such as missing a train — even if it was her own fault — she flew into a rage . |
| 27 | I even asked her if it was her that smashed that kiosk up ! |
| 28 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 29 | But in Lebanon we do n't have vows , they have like kind of contract , and if the if they broke the contract it 's the bride and groo , the groom have to pay that amount of money for the the bride , even if it was her fault . |
| 30 | What if it was her feebleness that made him impatient ? |