Example sentences of "that if [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I can tell you that erm Birmingham City Council told me this erm that if ever they need anyone to chair a meeting they would look to the Guild , committees . |
| 2 | Six six contracts all the same print so that if ever we shifted you or wanted you wanted to shift you from estate into to golf or to schools we do n't have to retrain you at all . |
| 3 | I said I 'd remember that if ever I found him dangling upside down by one toe from a ski-lift cable . |
| 4 | ‘ You may be sure , ’ said Jared Tunstall , ‘ that if ever I do go bankrupt I should certainly die of grief , or of mortification at such a turn . |
| 5 | McAllister knew that if once she stopped her ministrations she would never get up again , and her reply was as firm as she could make it . |
| 6 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 7 | Some readers , particularly those convinced that if only we thought long enough , or prayed hard enough , we would discover reassuring tethering posts to which to secure our moral choices , will view with some disquiet the position reached so far . |
| 8 | This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm thinking of the sort of attitude that suggests the unemployed do too little to help themselves , that if only you have determination and drive you can get on in the world . ’ |
| 10 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 11 | Obscurely , she felt that if only she had known before things might have been different , but then common sense told her that yes , things might have been different : probably they would have been worse . |
| 12 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 13 | All his life , the fool thinks that if only he tried another woman , or holiday , or whatever , then this time he would really catch the mysterious something . |