Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I mean if I , if I produced for instance si five or six masters and then people can go and do copies here and there that 's actually not a bad way of doing it . |
| 2 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 3 | I would n't tell him if I went for lunch with my mother or a girl friend and I paid . |
| 4 | That is true , but if somebody applied for planning permission tomorrow or a or a renewal of planning permission , it would be difficult if not impossible to refuse permission for those to be committed . |
| 5 | Nevertheless they swallowed their wounded pride and did all they could to help if she asked for advice . |
| 6 | The NME opens its books in '52 to find a ready-made freak out there , complete with hearing aid , nerves like a poodle and a ghoulish , wailing style — a lovely singing voice , if you went for self-pity and emotional incontinence . |
| 7 | If you passed for Sergeant , you got two ten-shilling special allowances , and when I got made Sergeant , I was on a bike allowance of seven shillings a week . |
| 8 | If you asked for trouble , you got it . |
| 9 | He told her that the bracelet had the woman 's music in it , and sometimes , if you waited for rain and then listened very carefully , you could just hear it , very faintly , like someone playing in the distance . |
| 10 | ‘ In giving the little I had ’ , says Baxter , ‘ I did not enquire whether they were good or bad if they asked for relief ; for the bad had souls and bodies that needed charity most . ’ |
| 11 | Yet his criticism has not , by and large , been for the tabloid newspapers whose standards fell to new lows during the 1980s ; instead , he has reserved his bile for investigative journalists , particularly if they worked for television , and for those newspaper reporters who decided to boycott his lobby briefings . |
| 12 | Teachers were prevented from joining any Polish cultural or Catholic societies , and German language teachers were given a special bonus if they volunteered for work in Polish-speaking districts . |
| 13 | If it depended for government on the whims of its grandees , Georgian Sussex owed even more to their changing habits as members of leisured society , the relatively small but wealthy group whose fashions determined large areas of the economy in pre-industrial England . |
| 14 | Recognizing Soares 's popularity , the PSD had decided in April 1990 not to field its own candidate if he stood for re-election . |