Example sentences of "[coord] if [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domestic servants often remained unmarried , or if they did marry could sometimes carry on working , so their age structure more closely resembles that of male professions ( see Table 5b ) . |
| 2 | For the accused to be declared insane , he must be so diseased ‘ as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if he did know it , that he did not know he was doing what was wrong . ’ |
| 3 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 4 | Most of them left me alone whilst I wrote and if they did want something they waited till I looked up . |
| 5 | And if they did give you the sack you would be walked away to the army I expect . |
| 6 | It also transpired that the couple owned their own house and if they did move to Huntingdon , they would have to live in a council house . |
| 7 | " And if we did get out , what would we do ? " squeaked Lollo , my sister . |
| 8 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 9 | We know of course that this mother has the normal strong biological drive to care for her offspring , and if she did handle him would no doubt develop an emotional involvement . |
| 10 | And if she did come in she always made sure that she had somebody else with her . |
| 11 | And if she did slip away , why did it matter to him ? |
| 12 | That was in her favour , and if she did happen to be a female tea leaf , well , he was the last person entitled to throw stones . |
| 13 | And if it did happen , your physical health could be just the first of many things you lose , that you take for granted now . |
| 14 | And if it did work he would n't have to build his plane . |
| 15 | I ai n't got ten shillings , and if I did have I 'd give it to the kids . |
| 16 | ‘ And if I did know , would I be telling you ? |
| 17 | And if I did come and sit face to face across the desk , it would have a discipline . |
| 18 | And if he did make his bed and then come in extra early this morning , like as not he 'd have relocked the door and set the internal alarms . " |
| 19 | And if he did attempt to round up the collection , he only had to miss one to arouse suspicion . |
| 20 | Because you ca n't keep him under wraps for ever , and if you did marry him , you 'd have to be sure he would n't stray in your sister 's direction . |
| 21 | And if you did smear it , there was all hell to pay because then , Margaret , your cousin , would have to retype it . |
| 22 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 23 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 24 | But if we did appear to be reasonably well … well then , what is there to concern ourselves about ? |
| 25 | But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms . |
| 26 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 27 | if , if I was really stuck and I had the , the tools , which , I would n't have you see , but if I did have the tools there , then yeah I would be able to do it cos I 've seen Martin doing it quite a few times , so |
| 28 | Chapman may have been seeking to ease the pressure on his players , but if he did entertain hopes of the Double , they were dashed when James injured a knee at Upton Park over Easter . |
| 29 | But if he did encounter that God , he thought , his dearest wish would be to spit in his face . |
| 30 | But if he did say it , then he 's a fucking liar . ’ |