Example sentences of "if [adv] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |
| 2 | If only I had someone to talk to . |
| 3 | If only I had his nerve , think of the greasy eggs and tough bacon I could have been spared ! |
| 4 | ‘ If only I had my journal , ’ Wynne-Jones complained . |
| 5 | ‘ If only I had my journal , ’ Wynne-Jones complained . |
| 6 | If only I had my thing ! |
| 7 | All her life she 'd thought , If only I knew what so-and-so was thinking I 'd know what to do … . |
| 8 | If only I knew what I have done . |
| 9 | Now , here 's a fine young fellow if ever I saw one . |
| 10 | There was a fast buck if ever I saw one … |
| 11 | " He was a wrong 'un if ever I saw one . |
| 12 | Now that 's a car full of cops , if ever I saw one . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ A right brace of identikit old-fashioned dykes if ever I saw one . |
| 14 | ‘ Colonel Gaddafi , for example — an obvious loony if ever I saw one . |
| 15 | " That 's a back-handed compliment if ever I heard one . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , now , ’ he drawled softly , ‘ there 's a challenge if ever I heard one . |
| 17 | You talk about the classless society and then his next step is to make Dennis Thatcher a Baronet , that , if I may say , is a media non-sequitur if ever I if ever I heard it . |
| 18 | If ever I felt I had been rude to her or disobedient , I always felt ashamed . |
| 19 | And if ever I thought it , that was the time that I thought that Mother knew what she was singing about . |
| 20 | If ever I mentioned her , you 'd just close up on me — turn away , like , as if you did n't hear . |
| 21 | ‘ One day , if I write my memoirs — the only thing I shall write well , if ever I put myself to the task of doing it — you will find a place in them , and what a place ! |
| 22 | I said I 'd remember that if ever I found him dangling upside down by one toe from a ski-lift cable . |
| 23 | If like I hated you I would n't go up to Lyne and start slagging you off . |
| 24 | I felt that I might be able to apply what I learned — if indeed I learned anything — to my attempts to reconstruct the life of Elsie . |