Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By then if nothing 's come out of the search , it 'll be time to start asking everyone questions . ’
2 If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really .
3 He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster .
4 I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M
5 Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose .
6 So here it 's something very like that I finished up with I 've if I 'd started off with that I would have finished up with twice what
7 I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere .
8 It always looks as if I 've gone along with a sort of scalpel at the bottom of the letters as well , a sort of shaved off
9 I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it .
10 I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’
11 If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’
12 In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there .
13 Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared .
14 So if someone had come up to you , and said , Well look , you you bet three pound , to have a go and if you get a four aces , I 'll give you a million pound , then it 's worth it .
15 Yeah if somebody 's loaded down with them , if they 've got
16 I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth .
17 Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown .
18 Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty .
19 She occupied a tiny apartment hidden away beneath Betty 's house , and she had a habit of materializing unexpectedly as if she 'd sprung up through a trapdoor .
20 She with , it 's true , Janey 's help , cooked , served , washed up , cleaned , drove us here , there and everywhere , the doctor , school , the dentist , up to London for nerve-racking bouts of clothes shopping , she had the Nigels to stay , and laughed at the J ills at the garage and I 'd 've died if she 'd found out about Paul .
21 It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky .
22 His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had .
23 She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another .
24 He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed .
25 Asked her if she 's signed on at Trevalle
26 What if she has run off with this Garry ?
27 I you see you 're not exceeding what the government is establishing as your target level , you 're falling short of that , and that means that some people will not get services that they would get if you had gone up to the level .
28 That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK .
29 Well , I 'm afraid , I look at it , like , that if you 've run out of .
30 Open the door of the wardrobe , put a wrapper over the big one , put it in the back , then sandwich another one , a picture in perhaps if you 've run out of things like that , till you get to the front , close the door , and you 've got it all packed away neat out of the way .
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