Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] more [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A lot of my clothes are holey , and if I had more money I definitely would dress quite differently . |
2 | But for Miss Mates the ‘ really truly ’ was the icing on the cake , even if she had more doubts about Sally-Anne 's stamina than her missing references . |
3 | ‘ I suppose , ’ Bill essays , ‘ if you had more money this arrangement … ’ |
4 | So you reckon if you had more time to think about an overall , sort of , web , if you like , of |
5 | If you had more time round , you 'd use that sort of language with themselves . |
6 | So if you got more post in , or your productivity in the servicing sections is down , from two point seven it 's down actually at two point six is what we 're achieving , we 're marginally out . |
7 | At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days . |
8 | If you wanted more money , you should have gone in for doctoring , academicking , police inspectoring or company secretarying . |
9 | ‘ I should have asked you if you wanted more tea , ’ Marriage said , suddenly remorseful . |
10 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
11 | And if we had more arms we 'd finish them off . |
12 | If we had more specialists and more facilities , heart patients could be dealt with in a proper manner . |
13 | If we had more courage at Goodison in facing up to the truth unpalatable though it may be things might begin to improve . |
14 | ‘ If we had more time I 'd take you up on that challenge you 're issuing , my lady , ’ he growled , in a voice that had gone dark and soft . |
15 | The general impression conveyed is that these women would not necessarily be more satisfied with work if they saw more people , but that they would certainly be less dissatisfied . |
16 | By definition , the selfish mutant would have more offspring than the other members of the , of the population , and if they had more offspring , before long the mutants would begin to become an increasing , an increasing number in the population . |
17 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
18 | If he took more staff on and they were say filling up provisions , putting the pies out every day is taking the department forward , it 's an everyday task . |
19 | Edouard looked at him , red in the face with indignation , reaching for the brandy-bottle , glancing towards his brother uneasily , as if he feared more self-justification would be needed . |
20 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
21 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
22 | I say to him , if he did more gardening , more real gardening , more digging , he would keep more lissom . ’ |