Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't think I could cope on my own without my mum and dad even if I did have all that money . |
| 2 | and even if you think no I would n't really spend the money to make myself more beautiful , you think , oh maybe , if I really , if I did have that money would I do it ? |
| 3 | I ai n't got ten shillings , and if I did have I 'd give it to the kids . |
| 4 | Keith and I had got engaged four months before and we said if I did get pregnant we would get married but we never did . |
| 5 | She 'd rather be seen as hopelessly naïve , and she voiced her feelings , suddenly not caring if she did seem that way . |
| 6 | According to Aubrey , Madeleine was still unattached , even if she did have that army officer dancing attendance on her . |
| 7 | Having said that if you did dial nine nine nine we would n't be too hard on you . |
| 8 | Well , the only trouble is if you did put that one I must admit . |
| 9 | Oh aye it you see but er if you did put artificial manure on you see . |
| 10 | ‘ So , if you did have some , what do you think they 'd tell you ? ’ |
| 11 | If we did evolve one species into another , why are there no half-fish or half-humans today ? |
| 12 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 13 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 14 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 15 | So if we did get Three out of four chances we get a blue . |
| 16 | Since most employment rights are dependent upon the possession of a record of continuous service with a single employer , most casual workers would fail to qualify for most of these rights even if they did have dependent employee status . |
| 17 | But , alternatively , assuming that this was not so , and that the instrument did not cease to be a negotiable instrument , then , in my judgment , from the moment when the draft sent by Sir Richard Temple was cashed by the plaintiffs a trust was created as between Sir Richard Temple and the moneylenders in favour of the former , so that any money which the latter might receive upon the promissory note , if they did receive any , would be held by them in trust for him . … |
| 18 | Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November . |
| 19 | I know that , I mean , er , we what Paul said , is basically that , we could have problems , if it , if it did go wrong . |
| 20 | It 's all a long way from those bit-parts and Lynda 's delighted to be making her mark — even if it did mean changing career . |
| 21 | If it did have such a cause of action , then the court would have power to award interest from the moment it arose by virtue of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 22 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 23 | If he did eat any food he would either chew very slowly or just hold it in his mouth . |
| 24 | Even if he did count six kegs , who 's to say there were n't more stacked away in another part of the freight car ? ’ |
| 25 | Anyway , what if he did get suspicious ? |
| 26 | The risks of antagonising China , if he did support such initiatives , were apparently highlighted by the Chinese side 's emphasis on " political issues " at high-level Sino-British talks on July 3-6 on Hong Kong 's disputed new airport project [ see p. 38340 ] . |
| 27 | Lord Home belied his reputation for laziness — the commonly-held view of the elder statesman , as the British prototype for Ronald Reagan , did n't hold water : up and working at 6.30 every morning , even if he did spend uncommon amounts of time in trout streams . |
| 28 | She would stab him to death if he dared bring that hideous hag in here , even if it involved blood spurting over the recently redecorated ceiling . |
| 29 | To encourage them to go back , the US and Britain left behind a rapid-strike force , to be stationed just inside the Turkish border , which would sock it to Saddam if he dared resume anti-Kurd aggression . |