Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I do n't know if I mean remember that in order to do any compositional semantic theory , you have to assign structuring . |
| 2 | Charlie then said to me , though I thought he had n't noticed me , ‘ I 'll just be down , ’ as if I 'd announced that his taxi was waiting . |
| 3 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 4 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Even if I 'd believed that story when you told it to me , I certainly would n't believe it now . |
| 6 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 7 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 8 | But if you 're asking me whether I would have agreed to live with you , if I 'd known that was what you were asking , I just do n't know . ’ |
| 9 | I have to admit that if I 'd known that I would n't have asked to have you seconded to Carlisle Flint … ’ |
| 10 | If I 'd known that , I would n't have stood a chance . ’ |
| 11 | Oh , if I 'd known that I 'd have well , thanks . |
| 12 | I gave her the number and hung up feeling baulked of my escape , almost as if I 'd expected that the thing could be done now , tonight . |
| 13 | I do not dispute that if I chose to instruct that the payment be made , it could be made . |
| 14 | If I 've achieved that , then I 'll be happy . ’ |
| 15 | If I had felt that I could n't cope with him , I probably would have had him adopted , or had an abortion , but it was my choice to have him . |
| 16 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 17 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 18 | ‘ If I had thought that I 'd bump into you , believe me , I would never have agreed . ’ |
| 19 | Indeed , if I had thought that , I would no doubt have been disabused of it by last night 's debate , to which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) so ably replied . |
| 20 | If it had not been so , if I had found that — ’ grinding his teeth with menace ‘ — well , suffice it that he may yet live his natural life out ! ’ |
| 21 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 22 | If I tried to teach that here , I should get the sack . ’ |
| 23 | As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money , |
| 24 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 25 | Would she have collapsed into a heap if she 'd learnt that Stephen was silent because he was wondering if his father had murdered his mother ? |
| 26 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 27 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 28 | She was pushing a piece of toast around on her plate , wondering if she had imagined that arctic expression on his face just now , when she heard the door open . |
| 29 | If she had known that she would be offered the opportunity of fighting Finn all round the valley , she would never have planned her picnic . |
| 30 | Merrill watched him covertly , wondering if she would have had the courage to sit here if she had known that he would come in ; wondering if she would have joined another and more distant club had she known that he was the commodore here . |