Example sentences of "if they did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably if they did modify their behaviour it was in the direction of approximating more closely to their own beliefs about what constitutes good teaching . |
| 2 | It also transpired that the couple owned their own house and if they did move to Huntingdon , they would have to live in a council house . |
| 3 | And if they did give you the sack you would be walked away to the army I expect . |
| 4 | I wanted their approval , even if they did smell so terrible , the reek of their hair in its stiff , bright tufts mixing with the fumes of alcohol . |
| 5 | Plato , after all , might never have thought of Atlantis ; and similarly Homer might never have thought of Achilles ; although this does not necessarily mean that if they did exist , they pre-existed thought in an absolute sense . |
| 6 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 7 | What would happen if they did meet ? |
| 8 | Personal involvement was implicit in the tone and the procedures involved : the matters under consideration were treated as if they did matter ; epochs and makers of epochs were sharply characterized and subjected to urgent evaluation . |
| 9 | If they did locate then I could get quite a good membership |
| 10 | Domestic servants often remained unmarried , or if they did marry could sometimes carry on working , so their age structure more closely resembles that of male professions ( see Table 5b ) . |
| 11 | If they did fulfil it , surely they must be potential rivals , competitors even in the guise of colleagues . |
| 12 | The claws on the crane did n't seem to close properly so that , even if they did manage to get a grip on a tube of sweets or a pink plastic comb , the prizes always slipped out again as soon as the crane started to lift them . |
| 13 | Indeed , if they did appear to be hesitant because of the mixedness in the message , that could be seen as a weakness . |
| 14 | Most of them left me alone whilst I wrote and if they did want something they waited till I looked up . |
| 15 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 16 | The criterion of liability is : ‘ Did the defendants … bring to their land things likely to catch fire , and keep them there in such conditions that if they did ignite the fire would be likely to spread to the plaintiff 's land ? ’ |
| 17 | Possibly if they did tell you something then it was likely to be made up because children did n't know it was wrong to lie . |
| 18 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 19 | If they did report a rape and they 'd told him the woman opposite , at the top last night er , next week come back . |
| 20 | But you know they they really need to watch how much part time work they are doing because it could mean that their pension will be suspended if they did work too much . |
| 21 | Fear against them , I still would n't put it past them , I 'm not saying they will , I 'd be very surprised if they did try to get cos they 're cos they 're on the sort of er the brink of being excepted by the rest of the world again , you know , but up until a couple of years ago , this thing happened , you know conventional warfare were and they only way we can stop them is by nuclear warfare 's |
| 22 | Do n't pretend it was all the other driver 's fault , even if they did crash into the back of you , or were driving recklessly . |
| 23 | Even if they did put down some yellow lines I do n't think it would stop some people . ’ |
| 24 | and even if they did buy without a solicitors assistance , what was the system about sending them the letter which we 've looked at earlier which is at erm D one , five , two , remember this is the letter that goes to Mr solicitors assuming you get a very rare person who does his or her own conveyance |
| 25 | We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again . |
| 26 | If they did have an effect , it was in a negative direction discouraging long-term planning ( Fine and Harris , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because even if they did have X-ray eyes , they had failed spot and to penetrate the cylinder of impervious Balbazian steel in my cabin . |
| 29 | Erm the point I made to them , that everybody round that table , if they did have a problem that they thought was urgent , they should get on the phone to the , you know , Steve and |
| 30 | If they did look out the sentries had orders to fire on them , which they did from time to time although no one was ever injured . |