Example sentences of "if [pers pn] still [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad , if I still had my wee Claxton Annabel could go outside and play in it . |
| 2 | I said , " Yes-sir ? " as if I still worked for Hatch & Hodges . |
| 3 | I had n't expected to be able to speak to Alan before the end of the week , but at a quarter to five Sylvia de Groot telephoned to say that he was free now if I still wanted to see him . |
| 4 | ‘ You brought her here just to find out if I still disliked her ? |
| 5 | Her second was to protect Chesarynth — if she still lived . |
| 6 | The name Weatherbury reminded him of Bathsheba , and he wondered if she still lived there . |
| 7 | If she still managed to get anything in the way of a book published he would persuade some friends to provide bad reviews . |
| 8 | She wanted to rehearse all her wisdom out loud to someone so that she could find out if she still believed it herself . |
| 9 | She was evasive when asked if she still felt like killing herself . |
| 10 | I wondered if she still felt that it had been worthwhile to appear in the film . |
| 11 | While crossing the Old Bridge , she suddenly wondered if she still had her money in her breast purse . |
| 12 | Drachenfels left her dressed in some revealing clothing ( revealing if she still had a body , that is ) to top the effect off . |
| 13 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 14 | ‘ Those were his words , ’ said Nancy , looking round uneasily , as if she still expected to see Sikes . |
| 15 | Bloomsbury House , asked to contribute £35 towards books , told her she was too late that term ( it was November ) and that she might possibly get a small emergency grant for the summer term ( six months ahead ) if she still needed it . |
| 16 | This would hardly matter if we still lived in those dim and distant days when nobody took sport too seriously . |
| 17 | If we still had horses … " |
| 18 | " If we still had horses we could eat them . " |
| 19 | If we still had the death penalty they 'd be hanged , anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ If we still had capital punishment I 've enough to have him hanged . |
| 21 | Many recreation items such as caravans and boats that are on hire purchase are used so seldom they could be rented over the course of the hire purchase scheme and with enough cash left over to buy the item new if we still wanted one . |
| 22 | She wondered if she really liked them any more , if they still struck her as both noble and imaginative in the highest degree . |
| 23 | When he got a passport of his own , if they still had the sort Jarvis had by that time , he was going to write ‘ lion tattoo on back ’ under ‘ distinguishing marks ’ . |
| 24 | It had been announced earlier that Lilley would not take action against the national brewers if they still controlled a few pubs in excess of the number allowed under the Beer Orders legislation . |
| 25 | If they still wanted to expand their original business there are other ways of doing so : there might be scope for a small hotel at L'Auberge , for instance , or for outside catering around Chelmslow , or they might even capitalize on George 's knowledge of French wines by setting up an off-licence and specialist wine importation business . |
| 26 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 27 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 28 | Perhaps she should buy a copy of Spare Rib , and see if it still carried adverts for consciousness-raising groups . |
| 29 | Even if he still felt the same it was no good if I was going to drive myself mad by becoming obsessive . |
| 30 | The doctor in casualty refused to examine him and he was told to see his own doctor in the morning if he still felt unwell . |