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 . |