Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he complained , ‘ what would be your reaction if I told you the moon just fell out of the sky ? ’ |
| 3 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 4 | Well if I knew who the hell Dawn 's brother was ! |
| 5 | ‘ You would n't come out here if I sent you the money for the air ticket , would you ? ’ |
| 6 | Well I suppose I 'm sure Adrian wo n't mind if I paid him the day after or a week after or something . |
| 7 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 8 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 9 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
| 10 | What would you do if I gave you the jade ? |
| 11 | So the gradient gives you a mea If I gave you the gradient , if I said the gradient is one , what would the angle be ? |
| 12 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 13 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 14 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 15 | I did n't care if she called me the son of Frankenstein . |
| 16 | If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance . |
| 17 | If you knew what the combination of circumstances were , then you could perhaps re-do your spreadsheet with a different way to avoid it . |
| 18 | ‘ If you knew what the oil companies are putting in the sea . |
| 19 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 20 | But it 's so chancy that way uh and I do n't think either if you gave y'self the role or y'know , the title , say , of school counsellor or whatever that you … it would work . |
| 21 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 22 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 23 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 24 | It would be easier to work out the story of the Jingoes if we knew what the beginning was . |
| 25 | If we knew what the future would bring , our contract regarding the specific asset ( and other matters ) could be well and completely thought out . |
| 26 | ‘ If we afforded them the respect they deserve the respect they are given in other European countries then the standard of service we would get would be a lot higher , ’ says the 55-year-old Swiss-trained baker . |
| 27 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 28 | Oh there was no such thing if they gave you the money , you might nip off . . |
| 29 | Especially if it gave me the credibility to help a friend in need . |
| 30 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |