Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 2 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 3 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 4 | I would n't cos I , I ca n't if I saw you in the street I do n't know you I could n't be , I could n't be attracted to you . |
| 5 | Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not . |
| 6 | By the way , I 'm sorry if I dropped you in the soup just now . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know if I passed her in the street |
| 8 | Thereafter , if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase , those eyes registered no recognition . |
| 9 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 10 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 11 | I think these 'd probably be better if I did them on the one you suggested for |
| 12 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |
| 13 | If I hit it with the chair-back … |
| 14 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 15 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Like if someone put something in the food , eh ? , sooner or later everyone will be ill . ’ |
| 17 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 18 | Erm tells you a lot it would n't erm if somebody hit you in the back you 'd still move if you had the handbrake on . |
| 19 | But she would make him pay for this , she vowed to herself silently , even if she killed herself in the process ! |
| 20 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 21 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
| 22 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
| 23 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose Mrs C. thought I 'd be swilling it down like an alcoholic if she left it in the room . |
| 25 | It was a test , really , to see if she said anything about the stockings . |
| 26 | I laugh if she caught it in the |
| 27 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 28 | Billy would n't notice if she put it on the back seat . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said the little boy , ‘ but it might taste better if you cooked it in the frying pan ! ’ |
| 30 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |