Example sentences of "if [pron] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 2 | If I ever had to qualify an audit report , I 'd run it past Claire first . |
| 3 | Well if I only wanted to know the crossword and every single one is |
| 4 | We ca n't know what would have happened if it had tried something else , nor ( and this is important ) what would have happened if someone else had tried the original solution . |
| 5 | Charity had just succeeded in ridding her mind of that subject , and she glowered at Mandy , wondering if she ever managed to learn a lesson from anything . |
| 6 | If she ever bothered to read the so-called ‘ forged ’ New Testament then she would realise that it states very clearly that Christ was a direct descendant of the Jewish King David . |
| 7 | A berserker was a fine thing if you just wanted to kill the enemy ; but if you wanted to manoeuvre , he was harder to handle than a charging bull . |
| 8 | But if you really wanted to make an impression you had to get rid of this Orcadian fast . |
| 9 | And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets . |
| 10 | What would it mean if we actually did discover the ultimate theory of the universe ? |
| 11 | If they really wanted to find a motive for the murder , they should grill Mrs Sweet . |
| 12 | If they ever wanted to have a moan about anything I did wrong , like using the bathroom too often , they used to tell Lesley to tell me . |
| 13 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 14 | In May 1987 , we pointed out in New Socialist that Labour 's leaders would have to take on electoral reform and come to a pre-election accommodation with the Alliance if they seriously wanted to win the election . |
| 15 | They were new colonies which were produced by the existing colonies , even if in no friendly spirit , and the possibility that colonies could produce new colonies was likely to make the task of the government in London even harder if it ever tried to impose a unified colonial policy . |
| 16 | Afterwards Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister , declared that President Gorbachev said that " he would continue on the path to reform even if he sometimes had to take a detour " . |
| 17 | He knew what he 'd find in the wardrobe upstairs if he ever had to search the place . |
| 18 | So , the only reason for her writing was to say that if he ever did get the chance to come over to the UK again , well , she 'd like — well , it would be nice … |
| 19 | If he ever stopped concentrating the whole thing could collapse in chaos . |
| 20 | If he ever decided to turn the full wattage of his charm on a woman , she thought , distractedly folding some of her clothes into neat piles , he 'd be quite irresistible . |
| 21 | Who the hell did he think he was , sitting there as if he really did own the place , stuffing his face with food , its aroma making her stomach cry out — but , worst of all , trying to destroy her new future ? |
| 22 | as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives . |
| 23 | If he still opted to run the 400m , he would probably make it through to the semi-finals , but he certainly would not win . |
| 24 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 25 | If he too had wanted the bomb to go off , his belief would n't have made him shoot , it would have made him dive for cover . |