Example sentences of "[vb infin] if [pron] did " in BNC.
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| 31 | But at a distance , and with some of the pressure off , Coleman began to wonder how much difference it would make if he did . |
| 32 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 33 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 34 | I wondered how much he would fret if he did n't see me among the passengers , and I hoped not much . |
| 35 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 36 | I might might check them out to see if they would mind if we did something later on in the week . |
| 37 | He not only believed that she would be a willing accessory to his two-timing Cavell , but that Cavell either would n't realise what was happening or would n't mind if she did . |
| 38 | Philip did n't mind if he did . |
| 39 | ‘ As you wish , although you can hardly imagine that Jones would mind if he did find out . |
| 40 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 41 | No not if if did n't work if it did n't work once it wo n't work again . |
| 42 | Go and find Donal , Ellie , she told herself sternly , instead of mooning over a man you know nothing about and probably would n't like if you did . |
| 43 | Cos I I can understand if we did n't handle it carefully , it could mean people would be more demanding and say , I 'm entitled to go on this training . |
| 44 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 45 | Told him people would understand if he did n't , but he said , ‘ They 've paid their money , they 're entitled ’ . ’ |
| 46 | But she smiled again and said , " I 'd understand if you did n't want to see me any more , " and looked down , away from him , at her feet . |
| 47 | She should n't blame her twin ; Roman had said he wanted Dana close to him , and who could wonder if her did ? |
| 48 | Raymond : Because they would die if they did n't have water . |
| 49 | And I think well just think how many people would die if they did n't have the transfusions ! |
| 50 | I would die if I did n't have water . |
| 51 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
| 52 | He would be lost in the city on his own and besides he must not forget about his grandparents — they would die if he did not look after them . |
| 53 | I 'd collapse if they did ! |
| 54 | ‘ Much of our economy would collapse if we did without that . ’ |
| 55 | We , we would have if we did n't do it , because the applicant quite rightly said , what , he said was gon na do it without us |
| 56 | The experiments are of the ‘ what if ’ variety , i.e. they ask ‘ what would happen if we did this ? ’ , and are not therefore based on hypothetico-deductive logic . |
| 57 | My Government accepted your presence here despite warnings as to what might happen if they did so ! ’ |
| 58 | First he told them to lay off me , and when they sneered and said what would happen if they did n't , he merely replied , ‘ A series of inexplicable misfortunes . ’ |
| 59 | What would happen if they did meet ? |
| 60 | Katrine was afraid of what might happen if she did n't pay up . |