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 . |