Example sentences of "if i [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Diverts , if I wrote divert up here you might use it against me in later life .
2 He told me that if I kept running well , I was in with a chance .
3 If I failed to do so , he would become exasperated and start shouting at me , telling me how stupid I was ; whereupon I would dissolve into tears and rush out of the room .
4 If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really .
5 If I 'd lost tonight , where would I have put my face ?
6 Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked .
7 So it 's probably just as well that I did n't leap off in your boat because er even in this climate I , I could have ended up pretty cold and miserable especially if I 'd fallen in .
8 He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster .
9 ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’
10 If I 'd stayed any longer with the villain who sold me those QE2 boots , I 'd have walked from the shop with a case of tent pegs and a canoe .
11 If I 'd moved forwards , we would have bumped .
12 Now that would not be what one would expect er two months ago if I 'd said well look you know that 's that 's what the revolution 's gon na bring about you would 've said I do n't believe you .
13 So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then .
14 Now if I 'd said how about if you had erm sixty add sixty do you think you could do that ?
15 If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home .
16 But then , she thought guiltily , maybe if I 'd gone out to work I would n't have interfered so much in their lives .
17 ‘ My mam would have had a fit if I 'd gone out dressed like that .
18 She 'd 'ave killed me if I 'd gone home without 'em .
19 If I were to go in now , thought Rupert , I should attract far more attention that if I 'd gone earlier .
20 ‘ What would you have done if I 'd gone down ? ’ he asked when we were back on level ground .
21 I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M
22 You can see why I was in such a bad mood Saturday cos if I 'd drunk that much Friday night you can imagine what sort of a hang over I had .
23 Perhaps he would have been , if I 'd explained properly .
24 She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’
25 But I would n't be chairman of the bank if I 'd made very many mistakes .
26 I said , I 'm frightened someone 's in the 'ouse , I 'm frightened not waking everybody well , well what do you do , I says , you do n't , unless you have a go , you do n't , I mean , if I 'd turned out you know , you do n't really know .
27 Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose .
28 ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’
29 ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’
30 If I 'd had just one chance I would n't be where I am today .
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