Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] it [modal v] " 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 | But if I felt it might be time for a change I would have to think about that as well . ’ |
| 5 | Unless I mean this hedgehog could have been done if I left it could n't it ? |
| 6 | Do n't know where I could put you , except in me bedroom , only if I did it might send me young man potty . |
| 7 | ‘ I carry no religion , ’ he told her , ‘ but if I did it would be the ancient Jewish religion of my ancestors ’ . |
| 8 | If I did it would probably read , if someone 's rogering your wife on the hearth rug , you ca n't expect her to answer the phone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dora traced an abstract pattern with her finger on the table-cloth , as if she felt it would help the process of recall . |
| 11 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 12 | If she had it would have sunk — instantly . |
| 13 | The first is that if she stayed it would look as if the Conservatives were resorting to desperate measures . |
| 14 | If she did it could be awkward … |
| 15 | Now the the problem with the dealing with I I suspect with the major exceptions policy is that if you had it could you move fast enough in order to cope with that sort of animal appearing on your horizon which you wanted to capture . |
| 16 | If you failed it must be because of complex interactions with your environment . |
| 17 | If you thought it would be helpful , we could meet with Alan Squair and Roger Strachan to discuss any outstanding issues . |
| 18 | Have you seen memory , if you saw it would you recognize it ? |
| 19 | ‘ If you did it would drive you crazy . ’ |
| 20 | If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims , we would discourage people from buying timber-frame . |
| 21 | Erm so if we gained it would be at the expense of Northallerton erm and when I , I made this point , well I did n't make this point I , I made the point about York being under-resourced because |
| 22 | If we did it would be very dangerous indeed . |
| 23 | My sister and I may share the same birthday , but we do n't share the same man , though if we did it would be none of your business . ’ |
| 24 | I told Mike Teague beforehand that if we lost it would mean the end of the road for a few of us . ’ |
| 25 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 26 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 27 | They were always having a go , the hard men , those who 'd blow up the Pope if they thought it would help the cause . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If they did it would be soooooo cooool . |
| 30 | 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 . |