Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know about you , but if I had to sort of pass something on to somebody else to check , if I can see somebody scribbling on it , I , I , I , I feel quite edgy , I hate it , I like to feel that I can do it and I can do it well and that other people do n't need to have to amend it . |
| 2 | " If I went to school , to an ordinary school , " she began . |
| 3 | If I went to night school I 'd be a student . |
| 4 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 5 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 6 | Eight o'clock in the morning , and if she went to work then he hoped still to be in time to catch her before she locked the front door and shut out the intrusion of a man from the Service . |
| 7 | Dawn was advised that she might obtain more money if she went to court , but she felt that this would be too hard for her emotionally , even though she had no memory of the accident or indeed of the friend who had died . |
| 8 | He said she feared she would look like a money-grabber if she went to court to get the possessions after the divorce so he agreed to sign them over . |
| 9 | She knew if she went to bed she would n't sleep . |
| 10 | It would probably please him if she went to prison , because then she would be out of his hair , and he would be free to amuse himself to his heart 's content with his pretty , blue-eyed doll . |
| 11 | Cos if you went to court and you was innocent and you got off , that 's it . |
| 12 | I mean there 's , there 's nowt no harm if , if , if you went to aunty Mary 's and she definitely gave a date , a date to come , it would be nice if you went and come back |
| 13 | If you went to daddy and |
| 14 | If you came to supper now , you could watch television , and Violet learnt how to play poker in California , she 's teaching me , we could have a game and Perdita would love to see you . ’ |
| 15 | Erm , you can have a twelve o'clock bus , if you wanted to sort of flee your premises , with a packed lunch , or without a packed lunch , if you er , if you do n't want to do that . |
| 16 | Our reforms have cut away the barriers that meant many breadwinners lost money if they went to work . |
| 17 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 18 | I do not know if they talked or if they went to bed together on that first night . |
| 19 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 20 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 21 | It seems that Manners was anxious to press ahead with building as quickly as possible in an attempt to pre-empt the Opposition from changing the scheme if they returned to power . |
| 22 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 23 | They say if they stuck to Government guidelines , it would mean teaching cuts , library closures and redundancies . |
| 24 | And if it came to court she would make a plea that he be given the care of his daughter until she became of age . |
| 25 | If it came to court today Armstrong would not be convicted . |
| 26 | I note that the first thing that the Labour party would do in my Department , if it came to power , would be to change the name of MAFF to FAFF . |
| 27 | If it came to violence , he was n't going to do too well . |
| 28 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 29 | If he agreed to marriage it would mean a whole new lifestyle . |
| 30 | If he went to war against Richard , which side would their father take ? |