Example sentences of "if i [vb past] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But would n't it be better if I came to see her , just to meet her , so that she knows who you 're with ? ’ |
| 2 | Dad poked his head round the door to see what was going on and to ask if I 'd seen Mum . |
| 3 | Milford said : ‘ If I 'd seen whose hand it was , I would have sent him off . ’ |
| 4 | is much more of a go down in colour , erm so I think probably if I 'd seen her , er prints I maybe I would of approached this erm differently , erm it gave me a very immense voice about crowds , erm , very , very different from the front of the picture apart from the alarm registered in the eyes of the , of the old woman erm , this is called Even Paradise Has Its End , sorry Even Paradise Has Its Price , sorry Ours in the night laying between sleep and arousal held in balance , fragile as dust on a scale , night spirit 's sit easy , in no hurry , even paradise has its price , would you like me to read that one again ? |
| 5 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 6 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 7 | Or if I 'd seen it , I had n't taken it in . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought you came round here to ask if I 'd seen anything suspicious last night , not grill me about my sex life . ’ |
| 9 | If I 'd seen what was happening , had n't been quite so involved in my work , I could have done something about it before it was too late . ’ |
| 10 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 11 | ‘ I felt as if I had seen something unclean , ’ Cecil concluded , ‘ so fearful in its cold frenzy that one blanched , asphyxiated in so nauseous an atmosphere . ’ |
| 12 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 13 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 14 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 15 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 16 | ‘ So if I went to see her … ? ’ he probed . |
| 17 | ‘ The organiser asked me if I wanted to see how the money was spent and since then I 've been hooked . ’ |
| 18 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |