Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So if I had if I had one course to go along and find approximately how many adverts for it ?
2 But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know .
3 If I had one wish in the world it would be to stop all this hurt and pain I 'm causing .
4 I would always be ‘ starting the diet tomorrow ’ and if I ate one thing ‘ out of order ’ , the diet would collapse and I would eat everything in sight until I could hardly move .
5 If she had one wish in life it would be that she could climb trees .
6 They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution .
7 If you , if you had one pound fifty how much you 'd spend on these different things .
8 ‘ The collection was so comprehensive , so beautifully put together ’ , says Richardson , ‘ that if you subtracted one drawing , the totality would suffer .
9 They 're the classic example of a band that thinks with one brain , and if you took one component out it would n't happen . ’
10 So so you can if you took if you took one week off every three assignments
11 No well if you had ten pounds shared between a hundred of us we 'd all get the same amount if we had one pound shared between ten of us .
12 Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more .
13 I mean if we tried one bag of that for a fiver .
14 Even if we found one example that we could n't explain , we should hesitate to draw any grandiose conclusions from the fact of our own inability .
15 That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient .
16 All four blushed as if they had one heart .
17 If the Minister had bothered to listen to the submissions made to him or if he cared one iota for the industry , he would know that the figures come from the farmers .
18 If he took one side of the street during a walkabout the crowd collectively groaned , it was his wife they had come to see .
19 If he had one trait of potential consequence it was his fondness for France , which led him to encourage efforts to ally with that country , but the international situation made these futile during his lifetime .
20 If he had one talent above all — Alec Guinness has singled it out as his greatest gift — it was for reading verse with intelligence and passion .
21 Perhaps if he followed one path , he would find a place where they came together ?
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