Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 2 | God knows I do n't want to rot here if I knew of a way out , surely that 's plain . ’ |
| 3 | When I was sure he was alone , I followed him into the bank and while he queued I read a leaflet to see if I qualified for a home mortgage . |
| 4 | You know if I got in a |
| 5 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 6 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 7 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't think I 'd want it in the house , it might be confusing if I walked into a gloomy room with it |
| 9 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 10 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 11 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |
| 12 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 13 | Perhaps if we , if I went to a Sie Sierra it 'd perhaps be nice to get one when I can afford one with the power to match the the size . |
| 14 | So , if I went on a Parma list … |
| 15 | If I went into a club or something , I would notice other people 's clothes , and the label , even though I think it 's silly in a way , and I know they 'd notice mine . |
| 16 | I 'm one of those people who , if I went into a gym , could be making Schwarzenegger movies . |
| 17 | Always used to draw my truncheon if I went into a place where I thought there was a burglar but never actually used it to hit them . |
| 18 | Why , if I went into a kitchen , I would n't know how to light a stove ! ’ |
| 19 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 20 | But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . |
| 21 | So gradually I am claiming my philosophical estate and already believe in myself ; it would n't even surprise me if I turned into a poet . |
| 22 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |
| 23 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 24 | If I started on a catalogue of what is going wrong with the world , let alone what we might do to put it right , there would be no end . |
| 25 | If Ah lived in a clapped-out city like this with inflation at two hundred per cent , or whatever it is , Ah 'd dae just about anythin' fur payment in solid US dollars . ’ |
| 26 | Dr Greene would only permit Faye to be at home if she kept to a stricter schedule of bed-rest . |
| 27 | ‘ I was simply trying to find out if she came from a family that loved good literature . ’ |
| 28 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 29 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 30 | If she fell at a fence he could not avoid trampling her . |