Example sentences of "[conj] [unc] if we [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ?
2 From the client 's point of view Regional Railways were quite adamant that erm if we did n't do it then they would find somebody who was prepared to .
3 I suppose we could have pushed ourselves and got these things , but I think we both knew that erm if we did , we 'd probably have to sell them halfway through paying for them .
4 I was I was looking at the syllabus last night and I was working out how much we 've got to do yet and where we are an and I really do feel confident that no matter where you are in your course work situation , that if w if we planned the thing right and we sort it out between now and the summer , tha that we could well get a good few Grade A's in here and obviously work it well .
5 Now if I point out that it 's in bold erm and it preempts a question that generally comes up and that is if we er we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles one way away from home and er if we had to send you , and it 's a big if I have to say it 's a big if in especially in the medical practice side , if we had to send you more than a hundred miles we will pay another five percent .
6 Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union .
7 Cos i if we said we we needed it in order to get some of this money
8 I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know .
9 Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be .
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