Example sentences of "if [pron] thought it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't be involved with so many stations if I thought it might , ’ Luke told her drily . |
| 2 | ‘ I would go myself if I thought it would serve any purpose to be killed before a blow had been struck . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd fly back with you , ’ Jenny admitted , ‘ if I thought it would help . |
| 4 | Indeed , although she is now nearly ninety , one senses that Lady Amory would do almost anything in her power if she thought it would benefit Knightshayes , the garden she created with her husband , Sir John Heathcoat Amory , after the Second World War . |
| 5 | If you thought it would be helpful , we could meet with Alan Squair and Roger Strachan to discuss any outstanding issues . |
| 6 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 7 | They were always having a go , the hard men , those who 'd blow up the Pope if they thought it would help the cause . |
| 8 | But folk here were eager to let you into their neighbour 's secrets , particularly if they thought it might distract your attention from their own . |
| 9 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
| 10 | Living souls , ’ said Caspar rather hurriedly , as if he thought it might be dangerous to say things like this aloud . |
| 11 | He 'd play cards with the Devil himself , if he thought it would be a good game . |
| 12 | And I ca n't believe Frank would be holding anything back if he thought it could save a young girl 's life . ’ |