Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think Richard would ever drive again if he did drink and drive |
| 2 | Even where prices could be raised to offset the wage increases , aggregate profits would still fall eventually if credit was not extended fast enough to allow the sale of the same volume of commodities at the higher price level . |
| 3 | One by one he filled each chamber with powder and then , without wadding or patch , placed a soft lead ball on its mouth and pulled the long lever beneath the barrel ; this lever moved the rammer which forced the lead down into the chamber and sealed it so completely , the Collector had been assured , that the powder would still fire even if you immersed your arm completely in water . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been a bit painful , but I thought it would probably go away if I ignored it , so I did n't bother seeing my own doctor before we sailed . ’ |
| 5 | So one of the great figures of mid sixteenth-century France was emphatically reminding Mary of her position as the crucial link between Scotland and France ; for that was where her importance would really lie even if she spent most of her life in France , and knowledge of Scotland therefore mattered greatly . |
| 6 | I have possibly the world 's largest collection of old Springfield external stats and would cheerfully buy more if there were still available . |
| 7 | Some traces of the deeper areas would then merge slightly if agitated gently with a wet and loaded brush . |
| 8 | More significantly , in practice it encouraged speculation in the more traditional sense — on assets whose prices were expected to rise by considerably more than the overall price level ( and would indeed do so if enough speculators made similar judgements ) . |
| 9 | Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed . |