Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
| 2 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 4 | She glared at Evelyn as if she had committed some extraordinary prank . |
| 5 | But this was untrue , for Minch had become quieter and more peaceful as the months had gone by , staring out over the Zoo with a mysterious tranquillity , as if she had found some contentment that eluded the others . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if she had stole some wine , ’ Rab said . |
| 7 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 8 | She was only in college the one year , less than a year if you — we just wondered if she tried to buy some here , that 's all , and that could be how she might have met the wrong kind of people . |
| 9 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 10 | Without such basic knowledge , you might gain some small insight into the sport , but at a much lower level of appreciation than if you had done some reading in advance . |
| 11 | Erm er and if you had done some researches into the job opportunities and you you could decide that then that that would be good . |
| 12 | ‘ IT WOULD HAVE all been easier , Daddy , ’ said Juliet , ‘ if you 'd had some sort of regular job . |
| 13 | ‘ So , if you did have some , what do you think they 'd tell you ? ’ |
| 14 | do you think it 'd be a good idea if you started doing some revising I went oh yeah I 'll have a think about it |
| 15 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 16 | If we had put some two or three stones on it you see , that 'd been better . |
| 17 | I nodded , feeling a sense of relief , as if we 'd cleared some giant obstacle in a fog . |
| 18 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 19 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 20 | So if we wanted to do some , I mean if you , if you can use that to do mental arithmetic to impress your mates , that 's . |
| 21 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 22 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 23 | You know they they 're a lot of the older men makes you wonder have they been sacked so they do n't have to pay them hand shakes at the end you know if they wanted to lay some people off . |
| 24 | But where Paula 's hair had shone and bounced as if it had caught some of the morning 's sunlight her own was straight and mouse coloured , where Paula 's eyes were the clearest , sharpest green hers were muddied to a very ordinary shade of hazel . |
| 25 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 26 | If he had saved some , selected arbitrarily , he would not have violated any principle he needs to justify other acts . |
| 27 | And then , almost as if he had received some secret signal , he gave a slight nod of his head , grinning sardonically down at her for a moment before rolling off her body and gathering one of the twins up in his arms . |
| 28 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 29 | It was as if he had released some dark and terrible secret which had been boiling within him . |
| 30 | as if he 'd absorbed some of the invisible layers of antiquity , some of the manners of his ancestors . |