Example sentences of "if we [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we had gone to the West , then what ? |
| 2 | For example , if we had assumed in the above model that where is a fraction , then the optimum value for γ 2 would be a complex function of and . |
| 3 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 4 | If we had stuck with the fair rates policy the vast majority of people in Britain might have been able to bear that price and public services would remain public services , not sacrificial lambs on the altar of the ideology of the Conservative party . |
| 5 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |
| 6 | If we had known of the risk of infection we would have kept Lexie off school she would never have caught the infection and would never have died . |
| 7 | A fire service spokesman said : ‘ If we had got to the house sooner it is possible this young man may still be alive . |
| 8 | At the hotel , Salah greeted us as if we had returned from the dead , pumping our hands and laughing , " Crazy English , crazy English . " |
| 9 | My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to her many constituents who are now home owners and thus have the privilege of owning their own homes — a right which would have been denied them if we had listened to the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 10 | Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ . |
| 11 | Especially if we kept going on the course we 'd established . |
| 12 | If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like . |
| 13 | However , neither of us had expected to be arrested for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ if we attempted to get on the water above the falls ; we 'd blown it ! |