Example sentences of "[conj] if [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't I mean do n't , do n't buy it just for this it 's just that if you had it handy |
| 2 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
| 3 | He had sworn at her , jeered at her , called her a lump of cold batter , told her to get to the devil , told her that he was sick of the sight of her , that he had married her for her money , that if she gave him any more of her canting preaching he 'd hit her one that she 'd remember . |
| 4 | She knew perfectly well that if she gave him any warning he 'd find some excuse to refuse to see her , so , having dumped her own things in her flat , she went straight round to his , hoping to catch him before he went out . |
| 5 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 6 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 7 | and if you used it one day a week . |
| 8 | The election was required by law , and if anyone thought it odd that there should be such trouble over elections to a chamber that now met only to ratify decisions taken elsewhere , then they kept the notion to themselves . |
| 9 | It does n't sound like much , but if someone told you those were your odds of winning the lottery , you 'd buy a ticket , would n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 11 | Not in an evil way at all , but if you gave him half a chance he 'd hammer you into the ground and stamp on you . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , but if it made him happy … |
| 13 | because if we told them that |
| 14 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 15 | And it would n't be me , so , that killed you , but God himself , for if he wanted you alive , sure he 'd hold back the tide for you like Moses and the Red Sea ! ’ |