Example sentences of "if i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’
7 Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’
8 My back , my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts , regularly patterned , as if I 'd slept on a bed of nails .
9 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 .
10 What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ?
11 If I had to choose between the two , I could live without performing but not without song writing .
12 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 .
13 And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door .
14 If I had stayed on the pitch who knows what might have happened .
15 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 .
16 I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends .
17 There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand .
18 I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction .
19 I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one
20 I suppose , too , that I felt guilty : if I had behaved like a properly loving wife and refused to let Flora monopolize Richard so blatantly — which I only did because I was enjoying Adam 's company — the situation might not have arisen .
21 I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him .
22 If I wanted to point at the put directory .
23 An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass .
24 If I wanted to get into a fight , I could pick one behind any pub in Luton any night I wanted , ’ he says , only half jokingly .
25 The interest of the BBC 's Heart of the Matter was triggered by Newsnight and that , in turn , caught the attention of a researcher on Wogan , Mandy Nixon , who asked if I wanted to appear on the programme .
26 I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was .
27 I invariably sat at the back of the class for reasons not unconnected with gang warfare , and if I needed to glance at the blackboard there was always someone to show me roughly where it was .
28 When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it !
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