Example sentences of "[pers pn] if they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told them I would n't have her , I , I if they wanted to go on holiday I would n't have her , I could n't have her in here she 'd knock everything to bits , try to move everything in here that she would n't chew |
| 2 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 3 | People would n't be so nice to me if they thought I was so lucky , but it 's fun to see their faces when I bring certain special ones back now and then . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , it had been a strange episode , and not only were those people unaware of my name but I 'd like to bet they would fail to recognize me if they saw me again . |
| 5 | I also took the opportunity of giving them Mr Connon 's phone number so they could contact me if they wished . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'd have told me if they suspected something was going on . ’ |
| 7 | So did each sheet of lavatory paper which the teacher gave them if they asked , and the box of wax tapers for lighting the gas mantle . |
| 8 | My mother 's aunts and cousins in Italy do n't know where she is and I would n't tell them if they asked . |
| 9 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
| 11 | Neither politicians at court nor governors in the colonies were expected to live on their salaries ; having outside interests would not cause any trouble if it simply supplemented their salaries , though it would be used as an additional reason to attack them if they followed policies the king disliked . |
| 12 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
| 13 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 14 | But this young one , a very spiritual guy , like a leftover from The Deer Hunter with a black headband and black jersey , said he wanted to shoo these journalists ; he had a revolver with him all the time , he is licensed to kill and he says he 'd shoot them if they came near , and I said ‘ No , please do n't do that , I 'll get in more trouble , ’ and he said , ‘ I ‘ ll just hit them in the knee . ’ |
| 15 | Back in our first Gittel 's day , everybody understood what was expected of them — humans , demons , angels , the lot — and knew what punishments would befall them if they stepped out of line . |
| 16 | These were the Overseer 's men , Chang Yan and Teng Fu ; big , brutal men who were not slow to chastise their workers and beat them if they fell behind with quotas . |
| 17 | They were proud to be in the show but terrified that their parents would send for them if they knew of such blatant nudity . |
| 18 | I stopped two stout middle-aged women carrying laden shopping-bags and asked them if they knew where I could find rooms to rent . |
| 19 | Audrey mentioned her Medau teaching and asked them if they knew Coburg . |
| 20 | The thieves were said to enter the house at night , tie up the persons inside , threaten to murder them if they made any noise , dig up the floor to search for money , and so on . |
| 21 | An ardent Anglophile , Tritsis used frequently to astonish British journalists with the breadth of his knowledge about Westminster , asking them if they thought Enoch Powell or Tony Benn the more radical figure . |
| 22 | You might also ask them if they had a big hi-jacking at the end of May . |
| 23 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 24 | We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis . |
| 25 | It was decided it would be too traumatic for them if they had to be flown away again afterwards . |
| 26 | I consider that it could only be of assistance to them if they had that foundation with which to commence their overview of the requirements of the case and the discharge of their statutory duty under the Children Act 1989 . |
| 27 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 28 | Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all . |
| 29 | The Scottish people whom I meet who work in the shipyards at Yarrow take pride in building ships for the Royal Navy whose orders would presumably be lost to them if they had the pleasure of being represented by an SNP policy . |
| 30 | Woolley called the replacements to one side and asked them if they had flown an SE before . |