Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if I got rid of the clothes and kept her stuff till we 're ready to do a boot sale with it . |
| 2 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 3 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 4 | You know if I 'd gone on the I said hello look here 's a mad man |
| 5 | If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case . |
| 6 | I had also agreed to load up out of sight , though within easy walking distance , of villages — it would be as as if I had gone into the villages for supplies , but this way meant that I would n't attract anyone 's attention . |
| 7 | What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ? |
| 8 | If I had landed on the ski-track , which was hard-packed and icy , I 'd have probably broken my neck , but I seemed to swerve off centre and thus landed in a soft snow-bank and lay panting , stunned and breathless , for a few minutes . |
| 9 | If I had stayed on the pitch who knows what might have happened . |
| 10 | During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people . |
| 11 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
| 12 | The room seemed to have gone dark , as if someone had turned off the lights , and she wondered if she might be going to faint . |
| 13 | If she 'd jumped into the water she 'd have made a splash . ’ |
| 14 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 15 | ‘ If she 'd stuck to the patterns , ’ said my mother , ‘ there 'd have been no need , but Cynthia had to fiddle with them . ’ |
| 16 | If she felt hurt at the realisation that his affectionate gestures had been no more than a front — well , it could only be because her ego was wounded . |
| 17 | Breeze partook of this refreshment wondering if she had stepped into the pages of Cranford . |
| 18 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 19 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 20 | He was a sensible and capable boy , an eldest child , so he moved closer , trying not to breathe , and stood steadfastly looking until he was confident of what he had seen : a body , must be a girl because it was wearing a skirt , lying face down , head towards the bottom of the embankment as if she had dived off the top . |
| 21 | The letter asked Diana if she had co-operated with the author . |
| 22 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
| 23 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
| 24 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 25 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 26 | It was as if she had vanished off the face of the earth , ’ Anthony Palmer , for the prosecution , said . |
| 27 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 28 | And with this interjection Aggie now beat her closed fist against the end of the settle as she added angrily , ‘ If she had acted like the friend that she was supposed to be to the mother I would n't be faced with this lot tonight . ’ |
| 29 | Marlow himself , listening to Jim 's confused , hesitant version of the affair as the court-martial proceeds , realises that ‘ with every instant he was penetrating deeper into the impossible world of romantic achievements ’ and cuts across the young man 's evident yearning to make some heroic restitution by the blunt reminder , ‘ If you had stuck to the ship , you mean ! ’ |
| 30 | On one occasion the door to his bedroom was left open and if you had passed along the corridor you could have caught a glimpse of the Collector , slumped on his bed , haggard and ginger-whiskered , the very picture of despair . |