Example sentences of "if they [vb past] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because if they went back they 'd have to have the electric chair and they do n't want the electric chair or the , cos that 's what they think cos they 've done so much . |
| 2 | Okay but they were f they were twenty awkward ones if they said right we 'll have you pick any twenty words you know and see if you can spell them you 'd get twenty out of twenty would n't you . |
| 3 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 4 | I stopped two stout middle-aged women carrying laden shopping-bags and asked them if they knew where I could find rooms to rent . |
| 5 | I do n't think it 's too much to say that erm , if they knew now what er , if they knew now what er , they know then what they know now , they 'd probably never have embarked upon er , upon the project . |
| 6 | I do n't think it 's too much to say that erm , if they knew now what er , if they knew now what er , they know then what they know now , they 'd probably never have embarked upon er , upon the project . |
| 7 | If they carried out their threat this would mean that neither the IWC 's conservation measures nor the already weak and inhumane killing regulations would apply to them . |
| 8 | if they flew away it would fall down . |
| 9 | Mostly teenagers , they were led to believe that if they worked hard they would become clerks or even dealers . |
| 10 | They 'd hire them for a couple of months and then if they worked out they 'd keep them on , paying them a pittance , and if they did n't , they 'd say ‘ sorry ’ and the guy would go away . |
| 11 | If they guessed why she was here , beset by care , unable to eat a sandwich , how would they react ? |
| 12 | They only reached Azzano , where a partisan leader , fearful of the kind of publicity the Italians would receive if they handed over their ex-Duce to the Allies , had them put up against a wall and shot . |
| 13 | Many parents and grandparents in the provinces followed ‘ the May-June events ’ on state-run television : their view of what was happening differed from that of the younger generation in Paris and university campuses across the country ; many students followed developments hour by hour on Europe I — if they did not themselves join the demonstrations and mount the barricades . |
| 14 | If they did , they were assessable to Hong Kong profits tax but if they did not they escaped assessment . |
| 15 | They must possess some hidden function to compensate their obvious disadvantages , because if they did not they would have been eliminated by negative selection . |
| 16 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 17 | There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they did n't they asked and I told them . |
| 18 | Oh yes , there were n't no argument about that , if they did n't they wo n't do the bloody work . |
| 19 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
| 20 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |
| 21 | If people stopped to look at the borders alongside the house he would be perfectly charming ; if they did n't he would n't bother them . |
| 22 | If they acted accordingly it would increase the risk that just such an epidemic would occur , ’ he warned . |
| 23 | Yet he feared they were like biting fish in a fine mesh net , if they swam forward they would never escape ; he saw them lifting their limbs with automatic motion , as crayfish with their lumbering claws knock against the basketwork of the pens in which they have been trapped . |