Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] out the " in BNC.
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1 | She was terrified that if she poured out the tale to her husband now , he would be filled with doubts as to the extent of her previous involvement with Davis . |
2 | When Mrs.McNaughtan noticed a pencilled note inside the cover saying ‘ fore-edge painting ’ , she knew that if she spread out the gilt edges of the book 's pages , we would see a picture , as indeed we did to our delight . |
3 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
4 | Even if they went out the league they 'd get that number . |
5 | The relationship between waiver and equitable estoppel is obvious , as Denning LJ pointed out in Charles Rickards Ltd v Oppenheim [ 1950 ] 1 KB 616 ( at p623 ) : If the defendant , as he did , led the plaintiffs to believe that he would not insist on the stipulation as to time , and that , if they carried out the work , he would accept it , and they did it , he could not afterwards set up the stipulation as to the time against them . |
6 | ‘ I 'd drink of a cup of cold piss at this moment in time , Tony , if it blotted out the world . |
7 | I th I think though , you know , after a year or two if he 'd moved away an if he moved out the area he would then break with his mother . |
8 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |