Example sentences of "if [pron] did [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 They keep questioning me , always asking where I was what I did why I did it , did all of them where I was who I was with who am I trying to kid why do n't I just admit I did it well if I did n't do all these things , who did ?
2 And literally , I got , but I was got so little on I felt that if I did n't do some extra
3 ‘ But I still believe I can win a World or Olympic title — I would n't still be running if I did n't think that . ’
4 And , if I did n't think this bastard who 's making so fucking free with my dad 's house would follow me there , I 'd jump right back in this minute ! ’
5 Like , as if it was fri , you know , like I would think to myself , if I did n't know that , I do n't think they would mistreat it .
6 Could have been a if I did n't know any attractive Marks Tri-Club
7 Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all .
8 I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways .
9 ‘ I reckon that if I did n't have that cigarette first thing in the morning , I could last out and resist the rest of the day .
10 I feel as though if I did n't have that drive I would have opted out of teaching long ago .
11 If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing .
12 A profoundly deaf therapist said : ‘ I do feel that if I did n't have this type of job where I 'm meeting different people every day I would withdraw very quickly into myself . ’
13 Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years .
14 ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’
15 I certainly agree that I would not be wholly confident of the conclusion about tunnelling if I did not know that rigorous calculations with the Schrödinger equation lead to the same conclusion .
16 If I did not add this information , I felt I should be told that he had never heard of M. Guérigny .
17 Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she 'd have somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man .
18 Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she had somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man .
19 Even if she did n't earn any money , Dad would look after them .
20 Well sorry if she did n't wear any at all eh dear , eh ?
21 She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway .
22 If she did n't know any better , she would have said she 'd had too much to drink , but apart from that first glass of punch , which she 'd never finished , and then Luke 's celebratory champagne , she had n't touched alcohol all evening .
23 It is what they expect from Robyn Penrose , and even the rugby-playing boys in the back row would be mildly disappointed if she did n't produce this kind of observation from time to time .
24 as if she did n't have enough troubles to contend with .
25 Since her own thirtieth birthday , she had noticed an unwelcome tendency to put on inches if she did n't keep any eye on what she ate .
26 If she did n't get some decent sleep soon , she 'd be in severe danger of cracking up completely under the strain .
27 There was no question of his approaching the father directly as a man such as Huy would not be allowed into the palace compound ; but Taheb was a rich businesswoman , and if she did not have any personal knowledge of the family , she would have contacts who would .
28 Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve .
29 but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive .
30 Then of course failing that , if you did n't want that doing you 'd er try the French letters and they were supposed to be er you know supposed to be intact and supposed to be the thing .
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