Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip , and Montgomery would not be amused . |
| 2 | They were becoming very tired , and when they came back from their missions there was none of the former exuberance if everyone returned safely , and just fatalistic shoulder-shrugging if someone was lost . |
| 3 | They are often advertised in the newspapers as ‘ bomb proof ! ’ ; no matter what occurs they will just continue their mild sweet way as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 4 | The weeds that we 'd uprooted in the morning were shrivelled and brown ; the earth looked as if nothing had ever lived in it . |
| 5 | Then I washed and dried the two beer-mugs and the three vases , and put them back in their normal places , as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 6 | On shore the remaining sheep were released with their new stud ram , whereupon they scattered over the grazing as if nothing had ever disturbed their tranquillity . |
| 7 | And for those people who are n't happy with what Stacker does anyway ( like our esteemed editor , for example ) , the package now comes with a useful Unstack feature so you can automatically return your system to its original state as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 8 | God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them . |
| 9 | ‘ Not to the same degree , of course , but on Sunday there was the same feeling — as if we were continuing a conversation we were having yesterday , as if nothing had really changed . |
| 10 | If I belonged anywhere , it was with these people , the lumpenbourgeoisie , in whose eyes I 'd lost caste , fatally and irrevocably . |
| 11 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 12 | That was still the kind of work that I wanted to do , and if I thought very much a comprehensive schools it was in a spirit of mild disquiet . |
| 13 | I do n't know what I 'd do if I smoked as many as them ! |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Walker thought , as I 'd come to see you before , it would be best if I came again . |
| 15 | If I came here , took your money , I would be dependent on you . |
| 16 | She said that if I came here to the island and said I was sorry you 'd welcome me with open arms . ’ |
| 17 | In the end I went along and scraped a pass , largely to avoid the horrendous scenes with my parents that would ensue if I came away from the temple of learning empty-handed . |
| 18 | Mrs Singh said she would go if I came too but not otherwise . |
| 19 | Most of the time I worked in the bunkers , trying to keep the stoker supplied with enough coal to fire the furnaces ; he would rattle his shovel in the hatch if I fell behind . |
| 20 | " I was always creative John ! " she said again and again , as if I kept impiously insisting that she was creative only sometimes or not until recently . |
| 21 | " I was always creative John ! " she said again and again , as if I kept impiously insisting that she was creative only sometimes or not until recently . |
| 22 | I could do a better job if I knew more about … |
| 23 | I could do a better job if I knew more about |
| 24 | Although I was tempted to think that such a short time would make no difference , I knew that when I got near to Kano , if I got that far , every minute would count . |
| 25 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 26 | He would n't want to waste his time chasing that story if I 'd already done it , and I can get a story into print more quickly than the British magazines he supplies . |
| 27 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 28 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 29 | ‘ I would n't be if I 'd just lost twenty million , ’ Plummer said humourlessly . |
| 30 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |