Example sentences of "if things [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rebel officers had probably been given US blessing on the understanding that it would not bail them out if things went wrong . |
| 2 | Denis [ Healey ] admitted that it was very unlikely we could close the whole of the balance of payments gap by 1978–79 , even if things went well . |
| 3 | If things went well , we 'd get our investment back in five years , with a handsome profit as well , and we 'd still have effective control of a hotel which we could continue to operate as part of our group . |
| 4 | And , of course , to know that if things went wrong there would be a helping hand to pull me up . |
| 5 | Pundits of the travel scene were heard suggesting ( and exaggerating ) that as many as 200 to 300 travel firms could go bankrupt if things went badly . |
| 6 | And if things went wrong , how could a boy and a one-legged man fight five strong men ? |
| 7 | way if things went wrong . |
| 8 | If things went wrong , she would be blamed , and her career as a detective — the career she had fought for so tenaciously , against the depredations of her husband , against male prejudice , against policemen who drove up back alleys on patrol when she was a constable and groped for a kiss — that career might crumble to dust . |
| 9 | Sometimes when there were a lot of us , he would open the church hall , and there , if things went wrong , he would exercise his sudden outbursts of temper even more ferociously . |
| 10 | I was travelling with camels in hot , arid country under testing conditions where , if things went wrong , I could get no help and where men 's lives depended on my judgement . |
| 11 | Last time he came home she said if things went on as they are for much longer he 'd lose the manor and the farm on the turn of a card ! ’ |
| 12 | Besides — and in the way the French Army of those days functioned it is hard to believe such considerations did not pass through Joffre 's mind — if things went badly wrong henceforth at Verdun , the Generalissimo 's responsibility would now be shared by another . |
| 13 | An experienced Substitute Prosecutor who would stand by him if things got tricky … and he had n't always been lucky . |
| 14 | Duncan decided at that moment that if things got really bad he would blitz the Russian with some of the Skoda and Lada jokes that were popular in the West . |
| 15 | Instead , there simply has to be some consensus among the Rowdies that if things got really bad he would still maintain his stance and be man enough to deal with it . |
| 16 | His income he augmented by writing pamphlets about railways , teaching an evening class in car maintenance — a subject he knew little about but which he mugged up from a handbook the night before — and , if things got bad , painting houses . |
| 17 | She had never done so , of course , but all the same it was a possibility worth remembering , if things got sticky in the future . |
| 18 | France was to struggle badly and by 1954 , the US was paying 80% of France 's costs for the conflict in order to keep the French in there , knowing that France would withdraw its colonials if things got tricky , leaving an administrative void . |
| 19 | If things got tough in the organisation he could go elsewhere . |
| 20 | Thornton accepted , agreeing to stay around and possibly play a larger role again if things looked up . |
| 21 | If things had gone according to plan , Jack would n't have been within 325 000 kilometres of Apollo 13 on that fateful day , 13 April . |
| 22 | If things had happened differently he , Lewis , would be living in a house like this or in a flat in central London with a cottage in the country as well . |
| 23 | It was better that way , she supposed , though if things had been normal at home Rob could have phoned her there . |
| 24 | On a version such as Hare 's , which does not incorporate a representative theory of perception , there will be a comparable implication : if things had not , in the past , looked to me as this now looks , I could not mean by ‘ This looks white ’ what I do mean . |
| 25 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 26 | What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected . |
| 27 | ‘ If things had gone differently , I 'd thought of extending my holiday , but now there does n't seem much point . |
| 28 | Erm well we 'd , we 'd got something on trying to ascertain if things had been produced by a multinational , which I suppose ties in with probably with , with three down . |
| 29 | If things had been otherwise , Mrs Arbuthnot would have made an ideal wife for the duke . |
| 30 | After all , if things had really been the way she said , would n't Matthew have rung up and tried to explain ? |