Example sentences of "[adj] if i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can ask you to accept that I should n't have come to you like this if I did not believe that the matter may turn out to be very grave indeed . |
| 2 | The only reason I came in here was that I was on my way into town when your boys called and they said it would be quicker if I came in to see you . |
| 3 | It would be wrong if I did not correct the inaccuracies that are contained within the letter . |
| 4 | Is it OK if I leave now ? ’ |
| 5 | These thoughts lead quickly to avoidance of the feared situation and include , ‘ I 'll be OK if I run home now ’ , ‘ Get away and you 'll be all right ’ . |
| 6 | Some usherettes could n't carry the icecream trays : ‘ I ca n't do it , Mr Norden , I come over funny if I walk backwards . ’ |
| 7 | Luckily I knew how many there were of them ( 53 if I remember correctly ) so I could count them out again — something which involved a lot of shaking of the shell into a bucket of tank water . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be much easier if I went in first and then you could push me up , ’ said Fenella . |
| 9 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 10 | I said well I 'm afraid if I do n't , I said , I do n't do it ! |
| 11 | so I ca n't get cold so I get , sometimes I get a coronary if I get very cold so I have to keep warm see but otherwise dear erm I think the New Town is really great I do |
| 12 | ‘ Would you mind very much if I did n't come ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I could almost think she were real if I did n't know better , but unfortunately for you and your tales my detective is an expert . |
| 14 | I 'd be bored if I did n't have it to do . |
| 15 | It would only be possible if I did n't love you , but I do . ’ |
| 16 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 17 | Jeanette 's friend eventually produced the curtains for the sitting room , and I am very pleased with them ( sorry if I 've already told you that — it 's exciting to me anyway ! ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I am sorry if I do not make sense . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm sorry if I did wrong . ’ |
| 20 | Sorry if I did n't sound too keen at first . |
| 21 | Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all . |
| 22 | I am sorry if I did not reply . |
| 23 | That if I ran away , at least no one would be running after me . |
| 24 | I do n't think I could have done that if I had still been drinking or doing the things I was doing about ten years ago . |
| 25 | That if I believe hard enough , and long enough then God will do it . |
| 26 | It would be very strange if I stood here saying do n't use a linear script use thought patterns and yet I was reading everything off a linear script would n't it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I 'd feel strange if I did n't hear it , put it that way . |
| 28 | They have the ability to make me feel guilty if I do n't write/'phone/visit at regular intervals . |
| 29 | You 're probably quite prepared to stomach the fact that I 've slept with girls before you , you 'd think it odd if I had n't , but if you ca n't see that a baby makes a difference to how much other affairs matter , I ca n't explain it to you . " |
| 30 | ‘ At one time they 'd have thought it odd if I did n't have a girl in tow . |