Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if I saw it on , say , Julia Roberts or Demi Moore in a film I 'd think it was wonderful , but it 's not me . |
| 2 | Apart from anything else , this project is worth a great deal financially and I 'd be a fool to myself if I forfeited it just because the client is an obnoxious , egotistical swine . |
| 3 | One of the difficulties that actually struck me last night about an organization like A B S A is that how wide , and in fact I 've got something in my filing cabinet next door which will tell me if I looked it up , how wide is the umbrella of the arts because we do n't have anything similar for sport , we do n't have anything specific |
| 4 | I mean even me I could if I lifted it up |
| 5 | Oh yes , oh yes , if I had it again I 'd do it exactly again . |
| 6 | The demure Lily in her straw hat , a hat I could describe to you now , still , as well as if I had it here in front of me , the crown swathed in a pale tulle the colour of a summer haze … in a long-sleeved , high-necked , pink-and-white striped blouse … a dark-blue hobble skirt , beside whom I walked across Regent 's Park in the spring of 1914 . |
| 7 | I know if I popped it right now , I mean yo you 'd a and Trish and Teresa , you , Debbie , Teresa and Mark . |
| 8 | If I interpreted it correctly — ‘ Nothing is definite , you must interpret the words ’ , Liese said — I had only to keep lying on my bed of North Shore nails for it to turn ultimately into a pillow of foam . |
| 9 | Even if I tried it on I thought she would stop me . |
| 10 | If I opened it up could we take care of the healing together ? |
| 11 | I know it ai n't really polite , but my hands are shaking so much I 'd spill it if I picked it up . |
| 12 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 13 | I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone . |
| 14 | I felt if I gripped it too hard it would break or crumple , and I would see the sinews like wires holding it together . |
| 15 | The red-headed nurse said she 'd put it in the incinerator herself if nobody took it away , and fast . |
| 16 | ‘ I think there 's opium in it , Anne , and if she took it too often it would n't help when she really needed it . |
| 17 | Rosalind would be very cross if she took it home unposted after paying her to send it ! |
| 18 | She hid the cutting in the cocktail cabinet in the prop-room — if she took it home Uncle Vernon might get his hands on it and embarrass her by reading it out to the commercial travellers . |
| 19 | But she was insane if she took it seriously . |
| 20 | All the same , they had now reached lot 50 ; if she left it much longer the chance would be gone . |
| 21 | If she said it often enough it might be true . |
| 22 | If she understood it then , all was well . |
| 23 | She sometimes signed it over to me if she needed it urgently and had n't time to queue at the post office . |
| 24 | She recovered it and was about to slip it back into the book , when she realized that if she put it back in the wrong place , Mark might think she had been snooping . |
| 25 | Of course she was smiling — if she handled it right this time , she might be able to ask him point blank for a particular day and time for that — perhaps not so accursed — interview . |
| 26 | ‘ If she disliked it so much , why did n't she change it , instead of just dreaming of being adored ? ’ , |
| 27 | There came a time when she thought that if she did it once more , he would burst of an apoplexy . |
| 28 | If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist . |
| 29 | If you carried it too green , erm I ca n't remember that happening to our but I 've heard of some people , having to cut a shaft down into the stack you know . |
| 30 | If you shared it out between three people how many so they all got the same how many would they get ? |