Example sentences of "if they [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 2 | and erm Wickham Market had erm Machine Centre erm , that was used during the war for erm certain courses er particularly for erm tractor drivers , they used to er have a week 's course , they had to apply to the Education Committee and er we got these applications in and erm they spent a week at Wickham Market , then in they used to stay in lodgings if they came from great distances and erm they would learn about the maintenance of erm of tractors and er , I suppose it 's quite a good thing really because er , it was difficult to get any repairs done in those days |
| 3 | She knew that junior deacons in their second curacies , even if they came from distinguished clerical families , were not expected to make contributions uninvited when in the presence of very senior clergy . |
| 4 | When he learned the identity of his two customers , he said , ‘ I run a respectable ale-house here , even though many of my customers would be shown the door if they went to one of your big city taverns . |
| 5 | " If they went to all that trouble to take out the clothes labels , why did they leave his face untouched ? |
| 6 | I saw one in the box once when she was trying her pearls on to see if they went with one of the dresses . |
| 7 | If they fought for one side or the other , Standard Oil would be fighting Standard Oil . |
| 8 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 9 | After a spell in the line men felt as if they belonged to some exclusive monastic order whose grim rites were simply beyond the comprehension of the laymen at the rear . |
| 10 | If they knew for certain that a vote of censure could not result in a general election , but would simply bring about a reshuffle in the Government , their conduct would become more robust . |
| 11 | They were proud to be in the show but terrified that their parents would send for them if they knew of such blatant nudity . |
| 12 | And so would ten thousand others be if they knew of this … what can we call it ? |
| 13 | For , even if they knew in general that it was unlikely to be the case , they could not afford to take chances . |
| 14 | If they dipped into that , they were knowingly making themselves insolvent . |
| 15 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 16 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 17 | I can see Stephen and Davin thinking these things about one another but find it hard to imagine them expressing them aloud — if they existed as real people . |
| 18 | If they kept to German names and were captured they would be treated as traitors . |
| 19 | Anonymous accounts could still be held if they related to legal proceedings such as divorce or inheritance . |
| 20 | And then if they got in good condition built up solid . |
| 21 | So he was gon na ask if they got in late because they could have had time to get it repaired . |
| 22 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 23 | The pardon stipulated that Aoun , Jamrah and Ma'luf should live abroad for at least five years and would lose their immunity if they engaged in political activity during that period . |
| 24 | In the nineteenth century men began to regard these phenomena with more composure , especially if they lived in northern climes where the earth 's crust was relatively secure . |
| 25 | Subjects were excluded from the study if they suffered from any debilitating or life threatening disease , including invasive cancer . |
| 26 | If they fell in this without a wetsuit they 'd be dead . |
| 27 | What men would her own two children marry , if they married at all ? |
| 28 | If they worked at all , they were late , had huge cost overruns , failed to live up to expectations , and lost out to their rivals ' more carefully thought through systems . |
| 29 | Former tenants of the flats have been moved to other council accommodation either is Haslemere , or if they preferred to other parts of Waverley . |
| 30 | Also , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that when APR and/or total credit cost was lower for shorter repayment periods , people who had originally chosen the very longest possible repayment period tended to switch — if they switched at all — to a repayment period right at the other end of the scale . |