Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reckon if everyone drove round this it up . |
| 2 | ‘ If everyone sang in English more people would enjoy the music and want to watch . ’ |
| 3 | No one knows what society would be like if everyone acted on the advice of those who openly advocate it . |
| 4 | The language of Gerardo 's pleadings is too forthright as well and more than a little familiar : ‘ Imagine what would happen if everyone acted like you did ’ ; ‘ You 're still a prisoner , locked up with them , in that basement . |
| 5 | Even if nothing came of the interviews , he could work for his father . |
| 6 | Further , it was hoped that if nothing happened during the trial which newspapers could turn into titillating copy for their readers , then there would be less incentive for the papers to give widespread coverage . |
| 7 | I placed it in that part of the room where we need the light , with something which , if I believed in it , I would call instinct . |
| 8 | If I believed in anything , I 'd say it was part of a divine plan . ’ |
| 9 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 10 | And why I should thank God , if I believed in God , that I have no German blood . ’ |
| 11 | My former wife disliked not only the taste of it herself but refused to come near me if I succumbed to its temptation . ’ |
| 12 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 13 | Well I suppose if I thought about it I could er put Amy in the hall and go and do some . |
| 14 | Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was |
| 15 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 16 | If I stuck with the basic training and did well I too could be one of them . |
| 17 | No , what I meant , is if saying that if I camped onto that number over there 3414 , and if that phone becomes free , this phone starts ringing and I might be doing something , so by the time I 've picked it up to make that connection , suppose 3414 is then making another outgoing call , do I have to camp on yet again to 3414 ? |
| 18 | ‘ as if I meant to ! |
| 19 | I would go home for weekends , if I felt like it , and during the holidays . |
| 20 | The hostess rang and asked tactfully and hesitantly if I felt like it . |
| 21 | A married 32-year-old store manager says : ‘ If I chanced upon an encounter , I think that maybe a couple of years ago , I would n't have worn one . |
| 22 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 23 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 24 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |
| 25 | I would n't know him if I tripped over him now . ’ |
| 26 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 27 | ‘ I also swear , ’ Prince Edward declared , ‘ that if I knew about the Lady 's … death |
| 28 | He asked me if I knew of anyone to replace her and I told him no . |
| 29 | God knows I do n't want to rot here if I knew of a way out , surely that 's plain . ’ |
| 30 | I would feel bad if I knew for certain that someone was going to cosh me with a lead pipe on January 15 of that year . |