Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | What if I wish to give small amounts regularly over a period ? |
2 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
3 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
4 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
5 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
6 | And if I 'd had any problems , he sorted them out . |
7 | If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’ |
8 | ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’ |
9 | I said look Neil you can drive , but let's not let's not take it that I 'm saying that you must drive let's go into the question of why you 're making a mess of it at this time and we , oh honestly Brenda if I 've got black circles under my eyes do not be surprised because , of course , this all goes back to his absolutely , appallingly , stupid mother ! |
10 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
11 | Now , what I do then , is , because I know this is going to happen , when I 'm planning my month , if I 've got some days towards the end of the month where I have no claimants whatsoever , I put the asterisks in there and that 's a catch up day . |
12 | I do n't know if I 've got any answers to that really . |
13 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
14 | but I 'm sure , if if I 've had ten objections , I mean I 've done |
15 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
16 | For instance , if I had written six songs , one on each record , that used the Not Of This Earth technique of one bass note , three chords , pitch axis , it would be quite boring at a concert when you get to the fourth one . |
17 | Many years later , Charles recalled the defection of " the whole people " , the emperor 's capture , the sending of " his wife " ( this , interestingly , is Charles alluding to his own mother ) into exile in Italy , and " the treatment of me , a mere ten-year old , as if I had committed huge crimes " . |
18 | ‘ If I want to sell 80,000 units what is the maximum price I can charge ? ’ |
19 | And if I want to hear inane rat-tat-tats I 'll go to the jungle and listen to the crickets . |
20 | What if I want to keep computerised records ? |
21 | ‘ If I do get bad feelings I know they wo n't last long and that I will cope ’ |
22 | If I happen to remember such details when there 's a beautiful doll on the paying end , Hinkle is right in there rooting for the firm . |
23 | I have enclosed a copy and would be most grateful if you could find the time to scan through it to see if I have made any errors of fact or tactics . |
24 | I would be grateful if you could just check to see if I have made any errors of fact , or have misunderstood any point you and your colleagues made to us . |
25 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
26 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
27 | And , if she 'd had any illusions about being able to deceive him , his behaviour over the past two days had put paid to that . |
28 | If she 'd had any doubts about Tara 's relationship with the villa 's owner , they rapidly evaporated as she watched the other girl 's body language in graceful retreat . |
29 | On reflection , though , she doubted if she 'd got enough crocks or cutlery and ‘ what was they going ter sit on ? ’ |
30 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |