Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 No , what I meant , is if saying that if I camped onto that number over there 3414 , and if that phone becomes free , this phone starts ringing and I might be doing something , so by the time I 've picked it up to make that connection , suppose 3414 is then making another outgoing call , do I have to camp on yet again to 3414 ?
2 Before I left Fontanellato my father had told me that although he was not against my trying to see Mussolini he would be very upset if I indulged in any kind of cheering or applause .
3 If I died on this hillside , I would not even know where or when the hillside was .
4 ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do .
5 He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ?
6 ‘ It was a very important game , because one of the top assessors was there , but if I continued after half time , I could have done myself harm physically .
7 I think that it would be helpful now if I described in some detail what the effect of the banding arrangements will be , as there has been considerable misunderstanding of the provisions .
8 But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’
9 But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’
10 ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff .
11 Yet if I concentrated on each footstep , I should soon be safely home .
12 I hoped , though , that you would n't mind if I stopped by this morning ?
13 She is as remote from me , as strange , as if she belonged to another time .
14 If she went on this way , you 'd be able to pick her up soon .
15 Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder .
16 It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace .
17 can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ?
18 If you came to this country after 1948 as an adult , your working life still started at 16 , so you will probably have a reduced pension .
19 It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association .
20 Only if you got beneath this front would you find out what a gentle and caring man he was .
21 If you sailed through this week without any problems , than all you need do is mark you end of week chart " no symptoms ' .
22 It would be best if you looked for another business partner . ’
23 If you looked at that picture long enough , Master , you 'd believe you were in Hell itself , ’ Ranulf murmured .
24 If you sat on that bend for long enough you 'd be sure to see something .
25 If you worked in this country and for some reason and were starving you would n't care if they fed you .
26 If we continued down this road here , we 'd still reach the Fire Court , ’ said Snodgrass , who was quite good at maps and found them interesting .
27 if we bargained about this issue , or ones related to it before , then the issue is negotiable now
28 The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome .
29 But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time .
30 Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way .
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