Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I 'd want it in the house , it might be confusing if I walked into a gloomy room with it |
| 2 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 3 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 4 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |
| 5 | Lord Morris observed : ‘ If someone possessed of a special skill undertakes ( irrespective of contract ) to apply that skill for the assistance of another person who relies on such skill he voluntarily undertakes the responsibility of so acting . ’ |
| 6 | If Ah lived in a clapped-out city like this with inflation at two hundred per cent , or whatever it is , Ah 'd dae just about anythin' fur payment in solid US dollars . ’ |
| 7 | to Stokesley , who if she screamed through a bloody bullhorn would n't be heard by anybody ? |
| 8 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 9 | So you could n't claim if you knocked down a load-bearing wall . |
| 10 | She just could not think why you needed special socks if you slept in a single bed ! |
| 11 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
| 12 | What if you walked into a crowded theatre and yelled ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 13 | Rumour had it that if you went to a Norman Mailer party , you 'd see people smoking marijuana , covertly passing around a joint behind the bushes at the bottom of the garden . |
| 14 | ‘ If you went to a residential symposium with murder in mind , you 'd expect to come across some suitable weapon , whether it was a heavy saucepan or a carving knife . |
| 15 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 16 | Erm the advantage that schools has er have sorry , over the other products , is that if you went to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out . |
| 17 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 18 | Anyway , it was a lon , there 's a little restaurant in the road , and it was back of sort of erm Mar , if you wal , you crossed over and if you went through a little slip where it came , you came into this little arcade of shops where o , about in the road next to er |
| 19 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 20 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 21 | If you asked for a special audit they would probably welcome it , as an indication that the bank was going to great lengths not to put them out of business . " |
| 22 | cos i if you wanted like a proper pair , that 's what they are . |
| 23 | If you stayed in a nice hotel for a hundred quid a night |
| 24 | Once it was dark our spirits were again surprisingly high ; we all felt as if we belonged to a large family . |
| 25 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 26 | ‘ If we lived on a good one , how would things be different ? ’ |
| 27 | If we lived on a very , very heavy planet … ’ |
| 28 | Let me put it another way , if we lived in a magic world , and were n't having things like essays and package deals together , and any officer was being asked to forecast the money that would be needed for the sensible and , and virile implementation of five B , would you arrive at a figure of about thirty thousand pounds or not ? |
| 29 | So for example , if I went on er a job on Monday I could possibly draw gun number three but the following day if we went on a similar operation I might get gun number six . |
| 30 | If we started with a clean sheet of paper we would not plan it that way . |