Example sentences of "[conj] if you [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had looked carefully , or if you knew enough , you would appreciate that these are , in fact , specially designed pilot 's boots which , with the aid of a couple of zips , convert into what was doubtless , in the forties , a pretty neat-looking pair of shoes . |
| 2 | if you did , or if you did not . |
| 3 | As well as the numbers to phone if you wanted an abortion or if you did n't , there were numbers for if you felt like committing suicide , were going bald , wanted a job , had been arrested or wanted today 's recipe . |
| 4 | Er only if erm the mother was torn at all or , or if you did n't think the baby was coming as it should , there was problems there , then you , you would . |
| 5 | I , when I took them back and looked at them , there were lots and lots of , of re er , errors if you like that if you had really looked at them you could of picked out yourself . |
| 6 | The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us . |
| 7 | We were told that if you went there in the dark your hand would be rubbed by a cold , spectral doggy nose . |
| 8 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 9 | Dessie Burns said that there was a lot of truth in the theory that if you fell down drunk , you never hurt yourself , a theory he had tested only too often . |
| 10 | For though it is hard for us to credit it now , many people believed that if you travelled faster than — say — 30 miles an hour , you might actually burst and be scattered across the railway lines . |
| 11 | ‘ Well ’ , came the reply from Adam , ‘ he said that if you stayed longer than a week he 'd hit the roof ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Mona ’ ensures that if you did n't want to strangle Craig McLachlan before , then you will now , whilst ‘ Diddley Daddy ’ , the kooky 12-bar of ‘ Little Girl ’ and the railroad shuffle ‘ Who Do You Love ’ are fundamental lessons from the face that launched a thousand riffs . |
| 13 | And do you find that if you did n't have the overtime then you , you 'd be struggling with your wage ? |
| 14 | ‘ Mona ’ ensures that if you did n't want to strangle Craig McLachlan before , then you will now , whilst ‘ Diddley Daddy ’ , the kooky 12-bar of ‘ Little Girl ’ and the railroad shuffle ‘ Who Do You Love ’ are fundamental lessons from the face that launched a thousand riffs . |
| 15 | now what gave the reason for that so we can all follow it quite clearly see if I 've got this right , was the reason for the updating of the service charges once a year in the brochure , the fact that if you did n't update the brochure might mislead a prospective purchaser ? |
| 16 | The old man never wrote because he could n't write , but everyone in the East End knew that if you did n't get one of those brown envelopes pushed under your door the member of your family who was away at the war must still be alive . |
| 17 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |
| 18 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 19 | She expected everyone to live up to her own high moral standards and there was an overwhelming feeling that if you did not , you had somehow failed . ’ |
| 20 | A boy next door called Rupert Entwistle had told her that if you chopped off a newt 's tail , the tail stayed alive and grew into another newt ten times bigger than the first one . |
| 21 | ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’ |
| 22 | They form , as it were , a heavy launching-pad from which your rocket will fly higher than if you had not known them . |
| 23 | thank you and if you walked around to look at the flat , would you find a lake and whacking big golf course in the middle of it ? |
| 24 | A set of priorities went with the job and if you took on the job you took on the priorities . |
| 25 | Boulogne is one of the French ports and if you went there on a day trip with your parents le ferry would take about 1 heure 40 minutes to cross the English Channel . |
| 26 | That was called Glen Bainey And there is a stone out there a great huge stone oh that was called Clachnagowan I 've seen that many And if you went there you If you got the length of Clachnagowan you looked right out the hill right out to Glen Bainey |
| 27 | It was the company that Joanna Martin missed the most when she left to get married : " all the girls helped each other , and if you had n't the right kind of type , someone helped you " . |
| 28 | ‘ You are having the kind of crush that is natural in a girl your age , and if you had n't been seduced by a certain person ( whose name I shall not mention again since you dislike it so ) that would be that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And if you had n't got me out in time ? ’ |
| 30 | And if you had n't seen me , what would you have deduced from the name ? |