Example sentences of "if we [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the agreement was that if we accepted the asbestos waste temporarily , there would never be a toxic waste dump in the Monkstown parish . |
| 2 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
| 3 | For example , if we saw the sequence PQZT , we would know that it could not possibly be an English word . |
| 4 | We used to pass sweets and things to some of the girls down there if we passed the windows . |
| 5 | And if we passed the exam then we became er er p probationer nurses then . |
| 6 | It seems to me that we could learn to rely on a system that could both embrace a wider ability range and discriminate within it more accurately ( both downwards and upwards ) if we adopted the structure of graded tests . |
| 7 | ‘ And so , after having a good , long talk about the problem with both Liz and Owen , Ross decided that it would be best if we brought the girls back here , to London , until their parents leave hospital . ’ |
| 8 | I was I was looking at the syllabus last night and I was working out how much we 've got to do yet and where we are an and I really do feel confident that no matter where you are in your course work situation , that if w if we planned the thing right and we sort it out between now and the summer , tha that we could well get a good few Grade A's in here and obviously work it well . |
| 9 | I tell you what we ought to do , I keep saying to Geoff , if we locked the garage door , you know the big garage lock , they ca n't get out can they ? |
| 10 | However , I have been given no allowance under the ‘ premises ’ budget head and would prefer it if we asked the Trustees to allocate the requisite funds from our investments . |
| 11 | Would it be a situation if we asked the Town Clerk and er maybe with the Chairman , it 's a little bit difficult , I think the Town Clerk at this stage , to speak to and then if it seems possible we could bring it up at the Planning Committee meeting and arrange a date to go down and have a look , when we 've actually approached the land owners . |
| 12 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course ’ he said sitting down again ‘ it would have been so much easier if we had the assassin alive and on trial . |
| 14 | Nothing okay if we had the pizza between the two of us how much would we get each ? |
| 15 | ‘ If we had the capital to invest in new machines , yes . |
| 16 | They 're not building that runway at Potosi so that we Bolivians can travel , as if we had the money ! |
| 17 | It would be highly dangerous if we had the choice of tampering with instinct . |
| 18 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
| 19 | It was felt one of the reasons for doing the video originally , was that if we had the film of the lesson we 'd all have a common ground , did n't matter whose lesson it was . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think it would be different if we had the opportunity to be together every night ? ’ |
| 21 | We feel quite like VIPs , although it is really the only practicable way of travelling , since the Institute is a couple of miles away , and even if we had the energy to cycle ( as all the Chinese do ) I do n't think we would have the time . |
| 22 | ‘ If we had the words right , it would n't work . |
| 23 | So to a certain extent the idea was to that if we had the thing worked out it would be of great benefit to the people who were popping by . |
| 24 | We would understand the bark of a dog , like we do our own language , only if we had the mind of a dog . |
| 25 | But if we had the accommodation downstairs , you we could ea easily have a good sitting room that we never use . |
| 26 | Together with the vibrational communication at the subtle level , all these are going on continuously before our eyes , if we had the understanding to perceive it . |
| 27 | I wish to say a few words about what measures we would be considering if we had the misfortune to have a Labour Government . |
| 28 | If we had the penny between the two of us how much would we get each ? |
| 29 | I doubt if we sailed at anything more than eight or nine knots , maybe 10 , if we had the wind behind us . |
| 30 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |