Example sentences of "if [pron] saw [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If no-one saw the caravan being towed along any of the main roads in the area , then Allen believes the gang may have stored it somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 2 | ‘ If I saw a comedy show that was very good , I 'd get depressed , and if I saw something that was very bad , I 'd get depressed . |
| 3 | S. H. Patrolling up Prescot Road during the war , if I saw a light on , I used to shout , ‘ Put that bloody light out , ’ and if nobody put the light out , we used to let fly with a brick . |
| 4 | Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have |
| 5 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 6 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 7 | It was hard , when a man worked as hard as he did , making money for her — yes , and with an ache in his heart — that she should sit there , looking — as if she saw the walls of the room closing in . |
| 8 | So for example , if you saw a child , who was pathologically independent , would n't form emotional attachments or dependencies on other people of the way the child wanted it . |
| 9 | I mean if you saw a girl laying , alright so you 'd have to pick her up , put her in your car and take her |
| 10 | I do n't know if you saw a programme a while ago about carbon sixty , a new form of carbon that some professors in America discovered . |
| 11 | It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’ |
| 12 | I went to very liberal schools , I 'm at Boston University now , and if you saw the attitudes and prejudices there , the absolute indifference , you 'd be horrified . |
| 13 | It was just that people saying things like that reminded me of one of my all-time favourite cartoons where Dr Watson is saying to Sherlock Holmes : ‘ But if you saw the conditions these Moriartys had to live in , you would n't be so quick to judge . ’ |
| 14 | Mind you , if you saw the state of his shirts , you might agree that a little mollycoddling was in order . |
| 15 | Most of these schools are in very remote spots and this particular one is surrounded by mountains ( close the borders of the kingdom of Lesotho and near the spot where Donald Woods escaped over the river to Lesotho , if you saw the film Cry Freedom . |
| 16 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 17 | Needless to say ( if you saw the BBC2 series ) , this inexhaustible well of fun is pure genius , as the two nasal , patronising , Tory airheads ( based on all of Fluff Freeman , DLT and Simon Bates ' most heinous crimes ) turn ‘ chit chat ’ and ‘ being MAD ’ into a way of ( avoiding ) life . |
| 18 | I took singing lessons , too , and I actually sang in a couple of films , but if you saw the films you 'd see why I 'm not in musicals . |
| 19 | If we saw the cyclist close to and the motorist a long way away , they would look about the same . |
| 20 | For example , if we saw the sequence PQZT , we would know that it could not possibly be an English word . |
| 21 | It sounds more like a good meal , indeed one 's lips were watering , as I suppose would one 's eyes if one saw the prices ! |
| 22 | Erm it may be erm er worth , in that , in that context , saying something about erm to get a contrast effect between y'know sort of how people would feel if they saw a man and a woman kissing in public and they may be perfectly alright about that but they may er feel particularly disgusted when it 's sort of two men or two women . |
| 23 | If they saw a case of apples or anything , they would break it open — did n't regard it stealing . |
| 24 | At one time , the officers if they saw the girls soliciting , used to arrest them , bring them to a police station , they 're finger print , photographed and dealt with . |
| 25 | If they saw the state of you , you 're going to get pay day . |
| 26 | I never sold a garment or got an order from this source , I wonder if they saw the light of day . |
| 27 | Tomorrow they 'll try and put up a sign to ask anyone who was passing if they saw the accident , yeah ? |
| 28 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 29 | And if he saw a sheep that should n't be where they were and the gentry about to come within days he would soon get them down . |
| 30 | His friends on the Union committee thought that what happened was best accounted for if he saw a vision of his dead mother in the gallery watching him speak . |