Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | You normally get drummed out if you disgrace yourself . |
| 2 | But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer . |
| 3 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 4 | Her eyes could not have bulged further if Werewolf had told her he only wanted her for her mind . |
| 5 | It could not have come about if the Trust had ever said to itself ‘ it is time to stop growing ’ . |
| 6 | This means that the total level of unemployment exceeds the natural level — i.e. the level of unemployment which would still have existed even if the real wage had been at the level ( W/P ) 0 which cleared the labour market . |
| 7 | If none of cc " or cc " or … existed , then if e happened , cc would still have existed even if any change x had occurred consistent with e and cc . |
| 8 | That is to say , roughly , that if the effect occurred , and no other causal circumstance for it but one existed , that one would still have existed even if most other things had been different . |
| 9 | She made a deliberate effort to relax : they would both have blown up if they had had to sit like that all evening , she thought . |
| 10 | He really gets steamed up if they 're left open , you 'd think somebody was going to run off with the timber mill . ’ |
| 11 | The taxi driver would n't have turned up if he had n't read about you in the paper . |
| 12 | She could n't have moved away if her life depended on it . |
| 13 | Sunk in introspective misery , Virginia could n't have said later if it was wet or dry , day or night , winter or summer . |
| 14 | ‘ I should n't have said so if I was n't . ’ |
| 15 | There was no need to go biting Hawkbit : he could n't have gone back if he 'd tried . |
| 16 | ‘ They could n't have cared less if the whole of manufacturing industry had disappeared , ’ says Weir 's Ron Garrick . |
| 17 | She moved a little but I could n't have cared less if she awoke . |
| 18 | Personally I could n't have cared less if we had n't caught a single rabbit . |
| 19 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 20 | You would n't have spoken so if he 'd been alive , ’ Miss Phoebe protested . |
| 21 | I would n't have opened up if I 'd known ; they 're a thieving bunch and they usually work in pairs . |
| 22 | ‘ You would n't have thought so if you 'd heard him shouting after me as I ran away , ’ Sarah said . |
| 23 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 24 | She night even have said more if she could have thought of anything . |
| 25 | And he tried hard to get involved even if his colleagues ignored some of the good runs he made . |
| 26 | They never get aired properly if I do n't do it myself . |
| 27 | He would never have found out if you had n't shown up in the office . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd never have come here if I 'd known … ’ |
| 29 | Some of us have to work for our living , I 'd never have got anywhere if I 'd moved at your pace ! ’ |