Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 2 | If I took her out of school I would be prosecuted , I 'm sure . |
| 3 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 'd never see her again if I took 'er there . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me , then , what would my wife your mother do if I took you home with me ? |
| 7 | And in September ninety two , if I took you back to sort of September ninety one figures were quite different , well in September ninety two , eighty nine percent of our business was next day . |
| 8 | If I read him right he does n't intend to marry , so he would n't suit you , would he ? ’ |
| 9 | I think the point that Mr is making if I read him correctly is that is you had an inner relief road , in fact it would siphon off traffic from the A sixty one going south from say the Killinghall bypass or relief road . |
| 10 | ‘ What 'd happen if I told them how you 'd cheated ? ’ |
| 11 | Alice thought : what if I told them now ? |
| 12 | Erm I do n't know if I told you before , I hated any sort of games . |
| 13 | If I told you now that we needed another five gangs of floor tilers or whatever it was which you had n't got enough of , it wo n't be floor tilers something you have n't got enough of , everything , could you get them by Monday ? |
| 14 | How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ? |
| 15 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 16 | If I heard him correctly , and I thought so , judging by the figures that he was quoting it must have been a more recent Price Waterhouse survey , not the original . |
| 17 | I 'm not even sure if I heard him correctly . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If I met her now I would talk to her — but not here . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's hard to believe she had this other life and yet if I met her now it would be difficult to dislike her . |
| 20 | ‘ Capron said if I met you again I 'd be sacked . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd be suspicious if I kept them long . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | The realist strategy involved comparing the description of the person with the subject him/herself or someone the subject was familiar with ; ‘ I also related a lot of the adjectives to whether they were like me ’ , ‘ … and rated the person as if I knew them personally . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | say anything about you like it 's only if I got nothing else to say really |
| 26 | ‘ Sorry to haul you off , girl , ’ Mr Hollins said in a low voice , ‘ But I reckoned it would be more comfortable for everyone if I got you out afore they had to start making excuses . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | I mean even me I could if I lifted it up |
| 29 | ‘ Coopers would be very surprised if I said anything else . ’ |
| 30 | I was warned if I said anything there would broken windows : I would be assaulted and my children too . ’ |