Example sentences of "be [vb pp] if i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 2 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 3 | Unless I mean this hedgehog could have been done if I left it could n't it ? |
| 4 | I know I 'm too thin , I do n't like what I look like and I 've been told if I lose any more weight I 'll have to give up work and be admitted to hospital . |
| 5 | You wish to think all the world respectable , and are hurt if I speak ill of any body . |
| 6 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 7 | Similarly , I can not be refuted if I claim to experience a religious emotion . |
| 8 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm old enough to be forgiven if I tell you that the news did n't sadden me . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm buggered if I know what the point is , ’ said Wilcox sourly . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I 'm buggered if I know , but I 'll check the mechanics for you . |
| 12 | I 've definitely got one cos I remember her sheet now as I was looking at it , but where it is I 'm buggered if I know . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm buggered if I understand that Army of yours . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 15 | She has always had this dream that I would make it to university and she will be devastated if I do n't continue , but the way I am feeling now , I do n't want to . |
| 16 | Said that in future he 'd be obliged if I kept careful note of when Mr Meredith took out a horse . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll be ruined if I have to pay ! ’ |
| 18 | Not a thing will be done if I do . |
| 19 | Bits of Meccano lay around waiting to be pilfered if I 'd had the courage . |
| 20 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 21 | Well I 'm blowed if I saw it on , on that receipt . |
| 22 | You go , Joanna — you know Ian Woodall , so that wo n't be embarrassing for you , but I 'm blowed if I want to meet Robert Sheldrake socially . ’ |
| 23 | For a moment another thought crossed my mind — that if I lived in the United States while undertaking an ‘ experiment ’ I might be sued if I failed . |
| 24 | I can surely do what I like on my day off , not be reproached if I choose to come home early because I feel tired , and secondly , as I said before , I am not playing games . |
| 25 | My heart aches for him sometimes , but I 'm blessed if I know if he 's happy ; if he ever wants to marry , have a family , he keeps his thoughts , feelings very much to himself . |
| 26 | For one thing , you 're not the only one who 'll be affected if I give that story about the poison pen letter to the press . |
| 27 | Heard about you being sick and put two and two together — though what the other two was , I 'm damned if I know . |
| 28 | But I 'm damned if I know where it 's coming from . " |
| 29 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 30 | I think the British end somehow managed to start itself up — though I 'm damned if I see how . ’ |