Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [adv] you " in BNC.

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1 CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door .
2 If I said right you 've got a second chance this morning , how could you improve that piece of work in front of you now .
3 ‘ But if she had n't you 'd never have got in touch . ’
4 If you said well you ca n't apply this time , you may be able to in three years time but pragmatists they like something that they can take away and then put into practice straight away and they can try out .
5 If you had n't you had to clear off and that 's when we used to make a tent out of anything , old sacks , bits of tarpaulin , anything then it 's covered over with erm .
6 I mean they take if you , if you filled up you could put I think it 's about twenty six gallons in that car .
7 He said : ‘ They suddenly started feeling quite ill , if you went outside you could feel little bits of burning on your skin . ’
8 ‘ Sure , if you went out you 'd be drinched entirely , ’ she sympathized .
9 That was called Glen Bainey And there is a stone out there a great huge stone oh that was called Clachnagowan I 've seen that many And if you went there you If you got the length of Clachnagowan you looked right out the hill right out to Glen Bainey
10 Jackets made goal-posts , and : ‘ If you went down you got up with a lump of a cinder in your knee . ’
11 The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us .
12 I would think if you looked carefully you would find that most people are . ’
13 If you lived badly you would return as an insect . ’
14 If you lived there you could make it absolutely divine ’ .
15 If you did n't you would n't accept his arrangement .
16 ‘ What would you do if you were going with someone and you liked them but you did n't love them or anything but you were only really going with them because if you did n't you 'd get so much heat … ’
17 ‘ Aye , well , if you did n't you made a good stab at it .
18 Er and you could go to a boarding school but if you did n't you were moved round every three or four years at the most to a different school .
19 Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing .
20 If you did well you became a manager , got a job in the airlines or a good position in the army .
21 Well i i and if it cried well you let it cry , you just let it go on crying until it was so tired it went to sleep .
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