Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] if i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that if I immersed myself in what I was doing , the people respected my work and usually kept quiet , aware of my concentration . |
| 2 | I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like , |
| 3 | But then in the next fraction of the same instant I realized that if I thought I had ceased to exist then I existed that the very thinking of this thought was me . |
| 4 | I know I should have told you earlier but I reasoned that if I did you would n't want me along ; and you needed a guide . |
| 5 | I was told that if I swore my performance would be stopped . ’ |
| 6 | He 's mean , he 's moody and probably the coolest thing on the screen since James Dean thought , ‘ I wonder what it would look like if I pulled my collar up like this ’ . |
| 7 | I know that if I left him , I would never be happy again . |
| 8 | for it and he said well , well er basically it just got down to well if you kiss me I 'll give it to you and then , and then he decided that if I kissed him |
| 9 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 10 | At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way . |
| 11 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 12 | I thought that if I made you realise how strongly I felt you might decide you feel the same . ’ |
| 13 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 14 | At least I think that if I knew my rugby , I would be in a good position to acknowledge that you know yours . |
| 15 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 16 | Now you said that if I gave you X cos squared three X it might be a bit easier to integrate . |
| 17 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 18 | I said I said oh I said I ca n't wait to lose this guts and those two were sitting there while I dressed and I said oh my guts and oh how I hate them , I said but if I lost them I mean |
| 19 | Phil : Well I would say that if I had my life over again I wish and hope that everything happens the same , and I think at the end of the day Becky had been the cream on top of the cake … |
| 20 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |