Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , so that I apparently would be still me even if I had completely different desires , tastes , er preferences er so on and so forth . |
| 2 | If I had , if I had more pressing tasks personally , I would n't be doing it . |
| 3 | Then , just to get you really thinking , you answer a second crucial question : What would I do if I had only six months to live ? |
| 4 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 5 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 6 | If she left early each morning and came home late at night there was very little likelihood of her meeting Leo . |
| 7 | But I doubt if she had as much fun . |
| 8 | If , by mating with more than one male , the female could persuade the males to help rear the young , then she would ensure a better chance of survival for her offspring than if she had only one helper or none at all . |
| 9 | Besides , a refusal would seem as if she placed too much importance on an accepted practice . |
| 10 | Phyllis recalls that her school reports all ended on the same note : ‘ If she put as much energy into her work as into her play , she would do much better ’ . |
| 11 | He was tempted to tell her to hire someone from the gutter press if she wanted more earthy writing , or some bloody feminist if she wanted a sensitive novel . |
| 12 | So if you want to use just one dryer for your hair , you will now have to use the curiously inefficient-sounding sèche-cheveu , as if you had only one hair to dry . |
| 13 | If you had only two bullets , who would you shoot among Saddam Hussein , Yasser Arafat or Paul Keating ? |
| 14 | Well that put you in your place if you ate too many potatoes . |
| 15 | It 's quite difficult to tell how much tape 's gone , if you got that much tape left , you think you can get more conversation on and you ca n't . |
| 16 | If you scored only one point , you probably have only a slightly increased risk of heart disease . |
| 17 | That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out . |
| 18 | If you trod carefully last week , however , it was possible to avoid the appalling tedium of the poll of polls , or the studio debates about the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement . |
| 19 | ‘ If we went ahead 15 minutes from time and were performing , I would still fancy us to go through . ’ |
| 20 | If we placed as much effort into making a fuss of children when they are good as we do when they are naughty we might make even greater gains . |
| 21 | ’ Would we be thrown out if we gave too much exposure to a rebel like Harrison , or if we showed the true extent of the logging ? |
| 22 | If one had properly representative councils — for example , in Liverpool , where the minority within the Labour group managed to take control and impose extremist policies — that would not be possible . |
| 23 | Them kids would be over the moon if they went there Euro Disney . |
| 24 | I think that if they had just local lads to contend with there would be no problems . |
| 25 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 26 | Towards the end of the twentieth century , Laura believed that the pendulum had swung too far and that women were far more likely to achieve their ends if they showed more feminine charm , prettiness and selflessness , as she herself practised . |
| 27 | How did they think he could get more production from his work force if they allowed so little cash for its upkeep ? |
| 28 | She knew that Steve adored Maria Luisa and that there was a good chance of them getting together again , and if they did only one person would suffer and that would be Fernando . |
| 29 | Richard Jones 's comparison experiment , briefly reported above , showed that users felt lost if they moved just one step from their original searches by choosing to " look at books classified near this one " , although the dialogue would appear to be a reasonable compromise between clarity and verbosity ( Figures 5.6 and 5.7 ) . |
| 30 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |