Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] if i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he 'll be do a very good show rather a shy man but he will And that will be that will be rather technical if I know Adrian , but if you if you like he 's that 's the time to come . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Will you think me extremely uncivil if I say that I do n't believe you ? ’ |
| 4 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be much easier if I went in first and then you could push me up , ’ said Fenella . |
| 6 | Erm , because , I used to laugh at people , but I found , you know , they got insulted , so it is much easier if I play God , and say yes , you know . |
| 7 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 8 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 9 | With a wry smile , Ellie admitted , ‘ It would n't have been so hard if I 'd known what he was talking about . ’ |
| 10 | I would be exceedingly naive if I believed that . |
| 11 | A lot of them would be much happier if I wore a headscarf and jangled gypsy bangles . ’ |
| 12 | I snuggle down thinking , how much better if I wait until the Teasmade goes off before announcing my big surprise , but , believe it or not , I fall straight into a deep , dreamless sleep . |
| 13 | Ah well you do it Charlotte you 've got to match the letters up , not much good if I 've got to stop to keep helping you is it ? |
| 14 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 15 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 16 | Sue 'll be ever so hurt if I do n't go . |
| 17 | I 'm going to feel so ungrateful if I refuse . |
| 18 | I 've forgotten your name , Judy oh sitting down in the meadow I think , oh are n't you having fun , come on Rocket , oh Rock , Rock , Rock , you , Rocket , I hide , he get 's every so anxious if I hide . |
| 19 | ‘ God , you 're a lot of trouble , I could get along so easy and so nice if I did n't have you on my tail ’ , ‘ You crazy fool … blubbering like a baby ? |
| 20 | I 'm all ready if I got my handbag , but when I start walking because of the cars being broken into I do n't carry a handbag , you see , I just carry money in my pocket . |
| 21 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 22 | And it would be rather pointless if I started trying to ape him . |
| 23 | She is a lovely person , it would be hard to feel jealous of her , but I do feel a little envious if I stop to think about it . |
| 24 | ‘ Would it be more comfortable if I sat on your lap ? ’ |
| 25 | I would find the hon. Lady 's argument more credible if I had not experienced the difficulties of trying to remember , when on Tyneside to talk about Tyneside . |
| 26 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |
| 27 | It might have been more depressing if I had been otherwise ready to leave . |
| 28 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 29 | I 'd have been a lot more worried if I 'd known how much it was going to be … |
| 30 | ‘ I would be more worried if I had n't had chances in my previous games . |