Example sentences of "if [pers pn] did not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 2 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 3 | I certainly agree that I would not be wholly confident of the conclusion about tunnelling if I did not know that rigorous calculations with the Schrödinger equation lead to the same conclusion . |
| 4 | If I did not add this information , I felt I should be told that he had never heard of M. Guérigny . |
| 5 | There was no question of his approaching the father directly as a man such as Huy would not be allowed into the palace compound ; but Taheb was a rich businesswoman , and if she did not have any personal knowledge of the family , she would have contacts who would . |
| 6 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 7 | ‘ In the interests of security I think it would be better if you did not mention this night 's events to anyone . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And then some NATO aircraft too , of course , we 're in Great Britain , so it would n't be fitting and proper if we did not have any of the aircraft from the Royal Air force . |
| 11 | If we did not have this sense , we would view those suicides as silly neurotics who were either mad or stupid . |
| 12 | If we did not require that dividend , which is spent on hospitals , schools and much else , we would be able to cut only about 1p off the 24p cost of a first-class stamp . |
| 13 | ‘ We feel that if we did not pursue this second transplant it would be like , to put it bluntly , pulling the plug on her . |
| 14 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
| 15 | To confuse matters for the historian , the exponents of widely differing interpretations called themselves ‘ Darwinians ’ because they acknowledged Darwin 's lead even if they did not accept all the details of his theory . |
| 16 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
| 17 | I should be a good deal more impressed with the Government 's determination to deal with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq if they did not have such questionable record on assisting Iraq to obtain a nuclear capability . |
| 18 | Bearing in mind the size of the KGB 's foreign operations it would be surprising if it did not have some successes . |
| 19 | Up to a point diversity is good ; local government would be useless if it did not permit some variety and flexibility in provision . |
| 20 | Our Report would not be credible if it did not acknowledge these differences and explain our response to them . |
| 21 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 22 | If he did not touch such heights again , he remained a thoroughly reliable keeper right to the end , small , neat and quiet , and rarely given to histrionics . |
| 23 | He built up a large practice , relying especially on ‘ native ’ clients , and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way , even if he did not save any considerable fortune . |
| 24 | If he did not suspect any particular person , he had no redress . |
| 25 | If he did not follow this code then he was not a Bwana Shauri of the Masai tribe . ’ |
| 26 | Eck 's defence was that of ‘ operational necessity ’ , i.e. that if he did not destroy all traces of the sinking , his boat would be in grave danger of itself being sunk by Allied aircraft in the morning , as had happened to his four predecessors . |
| 27 | as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty ! |
| 28 | The letter had not been answered , and the Laird of Gartmore took offence , declaring ‘ that if he did not get such trifles to oblige his friends that they might depend upon his going against them ’ . |