Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fellow continued his work replying coolly , " If I 'd ever had any brains Captain , I should n't have been here now ! " |
| 2 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 3 | I 'm not if I 've still got this cold . |
| 4 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 5 | I might have learnt to like Stephen Fry 's version of Jeeves on television , if I had not read those maddening articles in which he was eager to give away my money in order to soothe his conscience . |
| 6 | If I had n't done that I might have been shot in the eye and could have gone blind . |
| 7 | as if I had n't realised that already . |
| 8 | If I had n't put that frock on the lady — she 's my girlfriend by the way — I 'd have had to give her blue nipples . |
| 9 | as if I had n't got enough on my plate with Tim throwing a mid-life crisis and Phil doing the disturbed adolescent bit-now if you please Suzanne comes in at three-thirty in the morning , and me lying there sick with worry , she having never thought to phone , and London with rapists on every street corner or so one 's told . |
| 10 | I had infiltrated her teat with a local anaesthetic before stitching but I do n't think she would have moved if I had n't used any . |
| 11 | Well , that 's true , of course , but after all , I would be a different person if I had n't had that sort of childhood . |
| 12 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me , ’ Harry said as they neared the station , ‘ if I had n't found that letter last night and thrown you out , would you have told me all this ? ’ |
| 14 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 15 | Er well I do n't think I 'd be I do n't think I 'd be going out to play golf if I had n't earned any money . |
| 16 | ‘ Sprechen kommandant , bitte , privaten , ’ I said very slowly , as if I had just learned these words and found difficulty in repeating them . |
| 17 | And I shall die if I do not reach that rock . |
| 18 | ‘ And if I do n't earn those few thousand dollars then I am sure as hell not going to sail away with you . |
| 19 | How many pairs of dwarfs could be stocked , and what catfish would be suitable if I do n't want all the fry eaten ? |
| 20 | If I do if I do n't feel this hernia , if I ai n't got any indigestion , I do n't take them . |
| 21 | Now if I do n't exercise some management skill , and of course more and more recently financial erm acumen as well , one 's going to have a situation approaching chaos . |
| 22 | It does n't matter if I do n't hand this in tomorrow even though I am already a day late . |
| 23 | Since Carla was born it 's as if I do n't exist any more . |
| 24 | As he lined up his shot , he boasted to his mates , ‘ If I do n't sink this , I 'll marry my girlfriend . ’ |
| 25 | If I do n't think you 're suitable and if I do n't think this is for you I 'll I 'll say |
| 26 | All I know is that I 'll regret it all my life if I do n't do this now . ’ |
| 27 | If I do n't do any work over the weekend they all moan at me , if you do n't because you 're always round here nothing is said |
| 28 | Er , if I do n't lose any weight this month I feel amazingly guilty and that 's going to help me lose weight next month , and so on and so forth . |
| 29 | " But if I do n't have that name you 'll walk the streets too — and you know how difficult it will be to find another position without references . " |
| 30 | Oliver said , ‘ If I do n't have any breakfast for a week , would that pay enough to get the vet for Henry ? ’ |