Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you mind if I looked down the list ? |
| 2 | How about if I said well the reason why they migrate is that they do n't know about urban unemployment , you know if , you know , it 's a lack of information problem . |
| 3 | You 'd kill me if I blew up the school ? |
| 4 | If I walked back the way we 'd come , there 'd be a bus stop , would n't there ? |
| 5 | If I stood here the machine would go to that wall and the same that way and then round , in diameter . |
| 6 | ‘ But why should Joe Maitland do that if 'e went ter the fights 'imself ? ’ |
| 7 | Ashley had swung to a middle-aged woman beside her to demand if she knew when the camera shot changed . |
| 8 | She risked standing , poised to duck back under the slab of rock if she saw even the shadow of a movement . |
| 9 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 10 | She was terrified that if she poured out the tale to her husband now , he would be filled with doubts as to the extent of her previous involvement with Davis . |
| 11 | When Mrs.McNaughtan noticed a pencilled note inside the cover saying ‘ fore-edge painting ’ , she knew that if she spread out the gilt edges of the book 's pages , we would see a picture , as indeed we did to our delight . |
| 12 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 13 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 14 | If you ask somebody what 's the explanation for a fact you may have noticed if you walked down the Strand here just from the School , if you 're observant , I 'm sure you 've , you 've all instantly noticed as you walked by , that Strand Street , which is a short street that , sorry , I 'm , Savoy Street , which is a short street that leads off the Strand into the Savoy Hotel , is an exception to the rule , that in England you drive on the left , because in Stra in Savoy Street , you drive on the right . |
| 15 | It was the company that Joanna Martin missed the most when she left to get married : " all the girls helped each other , and if you had n't the right kind of type , someone helped you " . |
| 16 | He wonders if you filled in the forms correctly . ’ |
| 17 | If you went up the railway embankment at night , he said , you could look straight into the window of the room Uncle Titch had given her and see her getting undressed . |
| 18 | if you went home the day before Philip goes to get everything ready for him so you have n't |
| 19 | A set of priorities went with the job and if you took on the job you took on the priorities . |
| 20 | if you did n't the wind would soon blow them down . |
| 21 | If you did then the chances are that all your service will count for family benefits . |
| 22 | I mean if then , if you did then the , the |
| 23 | As a last resort MOD might tell us if we filled in the right forms . |
| 24 | You 're going to get more , it 's just as if we had just the big pipe from the |
| 25 | If we knew where the action was , do you think we 'd be sitting around here ? |
| 26 | Again , if we knew how the Euclidean curved space-times in the sum over histories behaved at early times , we would know the quantum state of the universe . |
| 27 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 28 | In the echo of the receding explosions and the sulphurous cordite of the rockfall , I said to Steve we might live longer if we abseiled down the rocky left side of the icefield , well away from the fall line . |
| 29 | He is bound to say this , indeed , for if we considered only the positive consequences of an action , and not those which would have occurred if it had not been done , one could not count in the suffering which an action prevented in its favour , which would be absurd . |
| 30 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |