Example sentences of "[prep] it they would " in BNC.

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1 It may well be that had they known of it they would have been even more exigent .
2 In the past , firms not authorised for investment business could feel fairly secure in the knowledge that if they did stray into it they would only be investigated in the event of a complaint .
3 ‘ I suppose if the local police thought there was anything in it they would be in touch with you as a matter of course . ’
4 Without it they would n't exist .
5 Their digging has cleared right down to the gravel tidy — without it they would have rendered the undergravel filter quite useless .
6 that help without it they would n't .
7 However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again .
8 But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it .
9 But I think that erm once they 'd got started on it they would find it very beneficial in terms of erm improving their kind of over-all general image .
10 If people had to put their hands in their own pockets and had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’
11 Tribunal chairman Mr Brown said : ‘ The cause of the trouble is free alcohol if people had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’
12 Now , part of that might just have purely the ritual that 's associated with things like coronations and investitures , but surely if people had felt so strongly about it they would n't have turned out in such numbers , er to support her .
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