Example sentences of "if we [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
| 2 | ‘ I feel as if we failed that man somewhere , ’ she said a little later as together with David and Martin Foulds she watched the ambulance leave the factory . |
| 3 | If we accepted this entirely arbitrary target , the review would be seen merely as a cost-cutting exercise and not about the reform of social security . |
| 4 | The underlying fear was that if we accepted any connection we would be back to the world of incomes policy . |
| 5 | It does n't sound much , but if we ignored those extra few hours , after four years our calendar year would be a whole day ahead of the solar year . |
| 6 | If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis . |
| 7 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be best if we continued this conversation elsewhere . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , if we had that in painting , it would be absolutely marvellous ; if one had somebody one could go and talk to who would say , ‘ Do n't do this ; throw that away ’ and all that kind of thing . |
| 10 | And I think in terms of justifying that , if we had that you know , if you 're saying people have to justify why they 're going , I think they 'd all more or less say the same . |
| 11 | In as much as , if we are suddenly told , divest yourselves of County Farms , then we will be in a much better position to make a balanced decision , and to maximise return from those County Farms if we had that information available . |
| 12 | But if we had that aim in mind exclusively , we would choose a different theory of adjudication , which we might call " unilateral conventionalism " or just " unilateralism . " |
| 13 | It means if we had that spending assessment and our costs , instead of the listeners getting a bill for four hundred pounds in their letterbox in May they would get a cheque for over five hundred pounds . |
| 14 | It was felt that if we had that information available that it might be worthwhile exercise to carry out some analysis of erm time was given or |
| 15 | If we had all this , I believe the new Abortion Pill would be an asset . |
| 16 | Can image if we had all these people , and |
| 17 | If we had all the money . |
| 18 | If we had such a high rate , many of our devices would become irritating or disturbing . |
| 19 | If we had such highly centralised decision-making it would not matter who won elections or who was Chancellor of the Exchequer , because such issues would be decided elsewhere . |
| 20 | If we had such a network , we would be able to withdraw the support which we currently give to private practitioners , but the Minister knows that we can not do so at this stage because there is no body of effective legal advice and opinion to benefit people . |
| 21 | Erm what would present problems in real life I think would be developments of a larger kind than that in which a new settlement er might be one strategic site if we had such a policy might be another . |
| 22 | Moreover , say Hackman and Oldham , even if we had this knowledge , it would still be a struggle to implement good job design principles . |
| 23 | If we had this up and running , the sort of thing that we would do is put together a package |
| 24 | Beep in the ear is so important just a second ago , because if we had this on , busy on the phone , and the next caller comes through , because it was my phone , those calls would go through to Hilary , so I would n't get a beep in the ear would I ? |
| 25 | that 'd be that 'd go round three people evenly so that 'd be a third if we had these two pieces stuck together that 'd be a third |
| 26 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 27 | If we had any hope that our eventual account of knowledge would help us to reject the sceptical arguments , this particular account seems to make matters worse rather than better . |
| 28 | Then he changed tack and asked us if we had any problems with his friends . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose we 're getting to the age when we 'd envy our sons if we had any . ’ |
| 30 | No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ? |