Example sentences of "if [pron] [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says if I just brought a dog then I can figure out how it was before with our ancestors , that without anything they were imprisoned . |
| 2 | I know it sounds stupid , but it , like , made me feel better than if I just smoked a joint with it . |
| 3 | I thought if I just had a man who had a yacht and he had a rolls royce and a yacht . |
| 4 | ‘ Like , you 're the kind of person I 'd like to talk to if I just had a fight with my girlfriend or was in trouble with the law or something . ’ |
| 5 | With defensive fields I would fire the ball in , and if I finally achieved a breakthrough I would be taken out of the attack . |
| 6 | If I ever lived a fairy-tale , this must be it . ’ |
| 7 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 8 | If I only got a second , I would stay in Oxford . |
| 9 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 10 | I suspect that , if someone now discovered a substance as addictive and harmful as tobacco , even this Government would be highly unlikely to license it to get it off the ground as a marketable product . |
| 11 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 12 | If she once got an idea in her head you 'd never move it , ’ she said . |
| 13 | He wondered what she 'd do if she ever met a Chinaman or a black slave . |
| 14 | But she ca n't call herself one and if she ever took a Communion service , she 'd be breaking the law . |
| 15 | For the first time , Susan intuited that if she really made a point of it , she could get out of her Public Service . |
| 16 | She ought to refuse , and of course if she really had a boyfriend in the background , as Fen supposed , she would refuse . |
| 17 | Drachenfels left her dressed in some revealing clothing ( revealing if she still had a body , that is ) to top the effect off . |
| 18 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 19 | Yeah but if you just said an acid and a so and so , but you 're saying a H C L and a and it 's I know |
| 20 | I mean you might decide you wo n't save anything if you only got a pound or you wo n't buy any presents or you wo n't buy any sweets . |
| 21 | ‘ If you only got an apple for Christmas during the depression ’ , said Mr Perot , ‘ you understood your parents loved you . |
| 22 | It 's very easy , we all use jargon , we use jargon in the newsroom , if you ever heard a conversation at Radio Cambridgeshire you would n't understand a word of it . |
| 23 | ‘ Let me tell yow if you ever lay a finger on her yerself , I 'll 'ave the authorities on yer , ’ Mrs Smith was not to be bested . |
| 24 | It is meant both to set out extraordinary expenditure which was how it arose but at the same time John pointed out that it might be a good thing if we also had an indication of the routine procedures and so therefore they are now set out in one document and are for your er final approval . |
| 25 | But wh well what are you looking for now , to see if we actually made a decision on it ? |
| 26 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 27 | If we only had a part for Dustin Hoffman , that would be terrific . ’ |
| 28 | If we only opened a door partly er there is room for somebody to hide behind it and then when we go into the room then we would encounter problems . |
| 29 | If they ever appointed a patron saint of walking sticks , he 'd probably be Keith Cowie from Edgehill . |
| 30 | Indeed , if they ever made a film version of Dido 's next book — about mating and motherhood — it would almost certainly carry an X-certificate . |