Example sentences of "but if [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But if we did appear to be reasonably well … well then , what is there to concern ourselves about ? |
| 3 | But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But if he did encounter that God , he thought , his dearest wish would be to spit in his face . |
| 8 | But if he did say it , then he 's a fucking liar . ’ |
| 9 | But if you did manage to get her back with her husband again , I 'm sure she 'd end up forever suspicious , bitter and soured . |
| 10 | ‘ But if you did know , you would n't stop me . |
| 11 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 12 | ‘ But if it did happen , there are certain things I would demand … ’ |