Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | If I did not add this information , I felt I should be told that he had never heard of M. Guérigny . |
| 5 | She sighed heavily , as if she 'd often met this concrete wall of misconception , and she leaned forward and looked at him intensely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the truth is , if you had ever seen this young man , naked or clothed ( and I have see him both , and halfway in between ) , then you would admit to the accuracy of what I 've said . |
| 8 | If you did n't do this , they reckoned the bees would n't stay , they 'd leave the hives — or else they 'd pine away and die . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In the interests of security I think it would be better if you did not mention this night 's events to anyone . |
| 10 | You might think there was something wrong with you if you did not enjoy this form of dedicated slavery but at least a woman had someone to share it with : her husband — and that third party in almost every educated parental home , Dr Benjamin Spock . |
| 11 | How might life be different if you gave up playing this game ? |
| 12 | If we had n't made this tractor there are half a dozen other products we could have tried |
| 13 | I could n't have trained Dawn if we had n't felt this closeness or warmth for each other , and you ca n't learn how to build such a relationship from books . |
| 14 | If we had n't colonized this country when we did somebody else would have . |
| 15 | If we had n't taken this step we could 've had fans from both sides mixing inside the ground and locked out on the streets . |
| 16 | But if we had not had this event we would n't have had those problems.Its the issue of New Age Travellers and illegal parties that produce what you saw last night . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 18 | On the way three big German transport planes flew overhead , scattering thousands of leaflets printed in Italian which stated that Badoglio had deserted his country — as if we did n't know this already . |
| 19 | If we did not know this before , we have learned it from the actions of parents in Dewsbury who , at the beginning of the school year 1987/8 , refused to allow their children to attend a local primary school that was predominantly Muslim . |
| 20 | If we did not have this sense , we would view those suicides as silly neurotics who were either mad or stupid . |
| 21 | ‘ We feel that if we did not pursue this second transplant it would be like , to put it bluntly , pulling the plug on her . |
| 22 | It is to the great credit of the editors that I would not have known if they had not stated this in the preface . |
| 23 | But she told me she would have been perfectly content if they had not taken this course . |
| 24 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 25 | as if they had subconsciously realized this , a little party of Muslims had taken up their station on a carpet by the edge of the garden . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it will be a much easier horse to handle , for example to catch , than if it had not had this early contact with people . |
| 27 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 28 | If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book . |
| 29 | If he did not follow this code then he was not a Bwana Shauri of the Masai tribe . ’ |
| 30 | If he did n't get this across to her properly and she chose to be obstructive she could make so many complications that the very project could be damaged . |