Example sentences of "if they [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they harmed her there was no way they could get off the train other than jumping and , with it travelling at over ninety-five miles an hour , that did n't seem a very good idea . |
| 2 | Give a free class to old and new members and ask them to renew/join if they enjoyed it . |
| 3 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 4 | But do n't waste it on me in any case : I would n't believe Six even if they told me they were lying . |
| 5 | Only if they told us why we were being held , would we co-operate . |
| 6 | Be far better if they told us to do something sensible . |
| 7 | When our children say , as they all do , ‘ but my friends are all doing this ’ , parents invariably say , smartly , ‘ and if they told you to jump off a cliff , would you ? ’ |
| 8 | Most of the square-skulled men I followed in this way in the streets turned out to have very macho faces , conventionally handsome , proud , even disdainful , as if they felt they alone were the lords and masters of the earth . |
| 9 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 10 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 11 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 12 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 13 | Despite taking home around half his £300-a-week mining wage , Martin said : ‘ I would n't go back to Silverhill now if they asked me to . |
| 14 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 15 | I should n't care to work for them even if they asked me . ’ |
| 16 | My reply to these people , if they asked me what happened at the branch meeting I say , do you want to know what happened in the branch meeting ? |
| 17 | After initial doubts about whether he would accept selection to run for Britain in the European Cup in Rome in two weeks ' time , Robb said he would now ‘ probably go if they asked me . ’ |
| 18 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |
| 19 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
| 20 | Creeping after her as if they stalked her . |
| 21 | And even if they meant him no threat , how could the Lord Owen be sure of it ? |
| 22 | She did n't know what that prayer was but she wondered if they meant it or if to most of them it was … just words and phrases . |
| 23 | So how much do they spend if they filled it ? |
| 24 | I would n't stay here if they offered me half of the Palace . |
| 25 | ‘ If they offered me a job at five hundred quid a week , I would n't take it . ’ |
| 26 | I would n't leave Madley if they offered me my own travelling dressing-room . |
| 27 | I would n't do it even if they offered me loads of money . |
| 28 | What if they offered you ten years ' redundant ? |
| 29 | In his wake were two older men in crumpled uniforms , unshaven clumsy fellows , carrying their rifles gingerly as if they feared they might go off unexpectedly . |
| 30 | He traced its origin to his former position in the trade union movement ( hinting that he had an agreement to go back to the TUC where he could make more trouble for any government if they pressed him hard ) . |