Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 2 | If I had to put any money on any one at this moment , it would have to be them . |
| 3 | I suppose I would , too , if I had to serve all the creeps that come in here every night . ’ |
| 4 | It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us . |
| 5 | If I had to face such a situation again , I 'd be very careful if there was a storm around . |
| 6 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 7 | If I wanted to copy all of the department twenty two files to the , the A disk , the floppy disk . |
| 8 | Only when Harry warned her that he might collide with a passing vehicle if she continued to do that , did she finally desist . |
| 9 | He was quite aware of her marital designs on him , but she was very much part of the life which he had rejected , even if she refused to recognise that fact , and tried to reclaim him for it . |
| 10 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 11 | She was only in college the one year , less than a year if you — we just wondered if she tried to buy some here , that 's all , and that could be how she might have met the wrong kind of people . |
| 12 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 13 | Even to allow such images into her mind meant she 'd dropped the barriers too far — something she could n't afford to do if she wanted to survive this experience mentally intact . |
| 14 | If she wanted to climb all that way , that was her business . |
| 15 | She was beginning to speak more quickly now , as if she wanted to rush all the words out . |
| 16 | How would you , if you had to do that if you do it the easy way , do n't do it the hard way , how would you do that ? |
| 17 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 18 | Now if you had to have all the locks changed in your house , that probably come out on an even . |
| 19 | If you managed to do this , you would earn , indeed almost compel from God , a favourable verdict at the Last Day.It all depended on human effort . |
| 20 | " Your presence would greatly enhance the dull routine of colonial life if you chose to attend any of our social occasions . " |
| 21 | If you wished to borrow such things you instinctively made it clear that you intended no blasphemy . |
| 22 | Apart from that he was rather a handsome man , she thought , if you happened to like that type of thing . |
| 23 | It ties with the with the arrangements bit , if you liked to do that would you ? |
| 24 | What if you wanted to push that there VW Golf off this ‘ ere road , through that there hedge … ’ |
| 25 | Fresco enables developers to create applications that use tens of thousands of run-time objects : ‘ you 'd have big problems if you wanted to do that with conventional X-Windows widgets or XT intrinsics , ’ he says . |
| 26 | Gillian said she did n't want flowers , she did n't want to , to , they thought they were a waste of money and er she said , needed , she 'd wanted to send any , if you wanted to send any just to send it to , to nursing . |
| 27 | So , all th , even if you wanted to make that qualification , it 's there , in him , I am righteous ! |
| 28 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 29 | We believe political officials have responsibilities we could not defend if we had to build these directly from the ordinary requirements of individual personal morality most of us accept for ourselves and others in nonpolitical life . |
| 30 | She also asked us each to decide how many garments we could make in a week , not sewn up ( if we chose to do this we were paid extra ) . |