Example sentences of "if it [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I asked him what would happen if it got known he just smiled and said I could talk if I wanted to . |
| 2 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 3 | Tallis called , and as if it had understood its name the Green Jack stopped a moment , stared sadly at the woman with the horse . |
| 4 | When it had finished , it hared off across the garden as if it had done something clever . |
| 5 | That cow would have kicked the pail out of the byre in shame if it had squirted anything out like that . ’ |
| 6 | He said it was to prevent the priest being mixed up , it was an opportunity to a new priest to come in and sort of if it had become he could establish groups . |
| 7 | It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming . |
| 8 | The black cloud returned to the screen as if it had followed them . |
| 9 | She felt as if she never wanted to go back into the house , as if it had tied her with a million cobweb fine lines , as the Lilliputians had trapped Gulliver , and that she could not get free . |
| 10 | Magic had descended from somewhere and made her invisible ; and in the process it had … well , it felt as if it had killed her . |
| 11 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 12 | It was difficult to find , and if it had rained we would all have had to have worn our wellies . |
| 13 | The phone went dead and she stared at it as if it had bitten her . |
| 14 | Ropes were then put on to keep it there but these alone certainly could not have restrained a 5-ton ( 5.08 tonnes ) elephant if it had taken it into its head to dismount during the journey . |
| 15 | We ca n't know what would have happened if it had tried something else , nor ( and this is important ) what would have happened if someone else had tried the original solution . |
| 16 | ‘ I can imagine you saying that you really could n't tell her because you 'd entirely forgotten the incident — and if it had occurred it meant nothing to you . ’ |
| 17 | Marie rammed the drawer shut as if it had burned her fingers . |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't I ? ’ said Rose , not as if it had slipped her mind , but as if he had . |
| 19 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 20 | He had claimed his case would be prejudiced if it became known he was refusing to answer questions about Maxwell companies . |
| 21 | It 's quite a common event in , and it can be two types , it can be either fixed or flexible , if it 's fixed it means the foot is in a position that you ca n't move out of if it 's flexible it means that the baby has its foot like that but you can actually rotate it |
| 22 | If , if , if it 's given you a slightly different slant on it , and you 're thinking has changed . |
| 23 | Erm there 's also of course the issue of the within the resettlement wherever that would be , that would be er if it 's accepted it would be outside Greater York , so there would be an effect in a sense on the erm the Greater York figure in the policy of a hundred and forty five hectares would be minus whatever was allocated to the resettlement . |
| 24 | well how can it lose it , if it 's saved it ? |
| 25 | It , if it 's left it will deform joints . |
| 26 | Yes , just go straight on to policy and resources , we we have to take it with the main motion , I mean if it 's passed it 's a s standing motion . |
| 27 | But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish . |
| 28 | So what if it 's got nothing to do with the TV show ? |
| 29 | Anything you tell me will be in strict confidence if it 's got nothing to do with our enquiries . |
| 30 | After all , if it 's got your name on it you 'll get it anyway . ’ |