Example sentences of "if [pers pn] knew [adv] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 2 | If I knew where he was , perhaps I would still try to . |
| 3 | If I knew where he was I would n't have come . |
| 4 | ‘ If I knew where he was why would I come here ? ’ |
| 5 | If I knew where it was , do you think I 'd get blown up time after time . ’ |
| 6 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |
| 7 | She had to look as if she knew where she was going , move as if she had every right to be there ; one challenge could ruin it all . |
| 8 | And she walked as if she knew where she was going . |
| 9 | You would n't want to start watching one of those awful old adventure films you like so much if you knew exactly what was going to happen , would you ? |
| 10 | ‘ But even if you knew beforehand who was going to get — say — the fifth plate , how could you put poison on it and not on the other plates ? ’ |
| 11 | If we knew why she was killed in that way we would be closer to the truth . ’ |
| 12 | If we knew how it was produced , for example not by moving a pencil round on one end of a taut thread , but along one fixed at both ends , we could conclude that it really is an ellipse and not a circle . |
| 13 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 14 | Hammond was looking down , his shoulders hunched forward , as if he knew already what was in the second file . |