Example sentences of "if i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You know if I came in to see Kim , your room , we 'd never get anything done .
2 If I knew how to make copies of myself , I 'm not sure that I would give the project high priority in competition with all the other things I want to do : why should I ?
3 If I 'd not had Louisa I do n't suppose I would have pushed myself when I had the job interview .
4 Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’
5 If I had n't snatched zee pencil
6 Bob quelled her with a look , but I noticed slightly later and indeed all evening that she stuck very closely to his side , which could have been interpreted as her own insecurity if I had n't remembered Mackie saying that meek little Ingrid never gave Bob much chance to stray with the likes of Angela Brickell and God help him if he did .
7 If I had n't seized zee pastel
8 If I had n't brought Jan , Cherry would have sulked .
9 I 'd be counting the days now , if I had n't got parole .
10 ‘ I would be more worried if I had n't had chances in my previous games .
11 She added : ‘ If I had n't had Steffine with me I would have had a go .
12 The fact is that if I had n't taken part in the BBC television previews of the big event I would probably be riding my old friend Bonanza Boy .
13 I felt as if I had just given birth .
14 Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth .
15 ‘ Fuck off and leave you alone ! ’ echoed Quigley , as if I had just taken pi to sixteen decimal places off the top of my head .
16 I felt as if I had singlehandedly wrecked San Francisco .
17 Heart-throb Nigel , who has played consultant Julian Chapman for three years , said last night : ‘ If I carried on playing Julian people would assume I could n't do anything else .
18 If I did n't know Karen I should think I was the candidate for diabetes .
19 And if I did n't use words like ‘ blast ’ and ‘ blow me ’ and so on , he would n't be a real character .
20 AB : I would be a fool if I did n't say Schenker was one of the few analysts we can rate seriously .
21 I understood that you might like me better if I had experience , if I did n't have opinions about things I knew nothing about . … ’
22 I would die if I did n't have water .
23 I would have watched it if I did n't have maths .
24 I would n't trust him with a play like Amadeus , playing a part like Salieri , if I did n't have belief in his talent .
25 After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work .
26 If I did n't believe clothes helped , then I would n't be in this business . ’
27 Perhaps they wish to share their grief , but if I did not know Uncle Ted , then it becomes less easy to sympathise .
28 If Jasper had been here she could not have done this , she would have had to adapt her pace to his … sometimes , very seldom , the thought came into her head : If I were alone , if I did not have Jasper to worry about …
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