Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd make us a cup of tea if I had some clean water , ’ Mrs Lennox said . |
| 3 | I mean you yourself if you found out if you found some homeless people you could possibly find out where they could go . |
| 4 | Uncle if we had some other places in do we get more points cos Sahara Desert is where we |
| 5 | You can imagine what an outcry there 'd be from women if we made some such generalisation about them , but we men are supposed to take this shit . ’ |
| 6 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 7 | This apparently concrete and absolute approach involved , once the poverty measure was defined , the distinction between those in primary poverty and those in secondary poverty.2 The primary poor could not attain the standard whatever they did , while the secondary poor could if they reallocated their income to a different consumption pattern , i.e. if they eliminated some wasteful expenditures . |
| 8 | But you 've got to ask yourself what would happen if they got some tremendous tycoon always used to getting his own way , such as the chairman of some football club . |
| 9 | He wondered if they had some other sort of beam they could train on him , which would make him forget things , or make his attention wander . |
| 10 | A particular sanctity was attached to victims of the river , as if they embodied some terrible truth . |
| 11 | therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning . |
| 12 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
| 13 | Still , she did n't mind at all having the blame laid at her door if it saved some other female from having to put up with his unwanted attentions . |
| 14 | " Pictures for the People " was a grand slogan , and if it extracted some national treasures from London for display in Middlesbrough and Huddersfield , it might even do some good . |
| 15 | ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for . |
| 16 | Even if he added some new music for the revival , all the rest must already have been on paper for the premiere . |
| 17 | Cecilia , saying good morning to his ‘ hi ’ , wondered if he had some dreadful disease . |