Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 2 | " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today . |
| 3 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
| 4 | Now if you went out for a ferry , you 'd have one of us guarding the stereo one person on that . |
| 5 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
| 6 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |
| 7 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 8 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 9 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 10 | Several factories in Northamptonshire , anticipating the drift to the County Ground for the mid-week game , closed down for the day , but in Northampton itself factory workers were allowed the afternoon off only if they made up for it in overtime . |
| 11 | I do n't know why they imagine it 's ‘ poofy ’ or we would n't find it attractive if they dressed up for us . |
| 12 | Wind was measured at 11.00 and 15.00 each day , but only counted if it kept up for an hour or more . |
| 13 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Even if anyone came in for me I would n't want to go before the end of the season . |