Example sentences of "if we [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If we saw two blokes coming out of a pub rolling drunk we might wait to see what develops before acting .
2 When they took them away they said we could come and reclaim them any time we wanted , if we brought ten rupees .
3 No well if you had ten pounds shared between a hundred of us we 'd all get the same amount if we had one pound shared between ten of us .
4 Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more .
5 So if we had two N A two S O four , that would be two times N A two you 've got four N As and two times the S O four .
6 If we had two pigs and another pig how many pigs would we have ?
7 It 's just like sharing I mean if we had two pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would
8 If we had six pizzas and we shared them out between two of us how
9 Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth .
10 So let's say if we had ten pounds on the table and a hundred people underneath .
11 ‘ We were sticking our necks out further and further but once we got to the South Col we had the same chance to get to the top as if we had 20 Sherpas helping and a brick-built house up there , ’ said Harry .
12 That 's how much that would be your share if we shared six pizzas between two of us and it 's going to be the same as I said when i said well you share with your mum and Natalie .
13 We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten .
14 I mean if we tried one bag of that for a fiver .
15 Even if we found one example that we could n't explain , we should hesitate to draw any grandiose conclusions from the fact of our own inability .
16 That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient .
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