Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun] " 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 | ‘ You would n't come out here if I sent you the money for the air ticket , would you ? ’ |
5 | Well I suppose I 'm sure Adrian wo n't mind if I paid him the day after or a week after or something . |
6 | 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 … |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
9 | What would you do if I gave you the jade ? |
10 | 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 ? |
11 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I did n't care if she called me the son of Frankenstein . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
17 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
18 | ‘ 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 . |
19 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
20 | Oh there was no such thing if they gave you the money , you might nip off . . |
21 | Especially if it gave me the credibility to help a friend in need . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him . |
24 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
25 | If he offered her the use of one of his typewriters , she was done for . |
26 | When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it . |
27 | Erm this has been prepared by Mr erm and perhaps it would be helpful if he gave you the flavour of it . |