Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm I could also support Chris 's resolution if I thought it was realistic to hope for an adequately funded public transport system in , in the foreseeable future . |
| 32 | ‘ I 'd fly back with you , ’ Jenny admitted , ‘ if I thought it would help . |
| 33 | If I thought it was a serious attempt at robbery there would have been a severe sentence indeed . ’ |
| 34 | or for myself , if , if I thought it was me |
| 35 | If I thought it was too much I 'd ease back . |
| 36 | This letter is going to be devoted to my affairs in connection with Edward … the other day he asked me if I thought you would care to go for a walk into the country somewhere . |
| 37 | If I thought you were sent by the Creator I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me . |
| 38 | ‘ If I thought you were serious , I would give you a thick ear ! |
| 39 | ‘ If I thought you were even remotely human , dog-face , I 'd wring your neck . |
| 40 | I 'd send every letter I 've written you since we last met if I thought you would n't do it to me again , humiliate me again . |
| 41 | If I thought you were a real threat , you know I would stop at nothing to discredit you . ’ |
| 42 | I do n't blame you — though if I thought you was messing around with her , anything like that , you 'd be in dead trouble , believe you me . ’ |
| 43 | And I 'd be sad if I thought you were less than happy with them . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ I would n't call you pompous , ’ she said slowly , and then , with a grin , ‘ not that I would n't dare to — if I thought you were . |
| 45 | ‘ At the moment , there 's insufficient evidence to arrest anyone , ’ said Harris quietly , ‘ and if I thought you were keen on any of the other men in this case , I 'd be saying the same thing about them . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ If I thought you could n't look after yourself , you see … ’ |
| 47 | if I thought you were all out of work |
| 48 | I used to have to go to the toilet if I thought I was going to fight anyone , or just go to bed and close my eyes and think , ‘ Not long , not long , not long to go ’ , to keep myself down there . |
| 49 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ There was a time when I intended to fight — perhaps I still would if I thought I had a chance and if I ever saw either of them , but it 's hard to fight for a man as elusive as Roman has become . ’ |
| 51 | If I thought I could unmake my old self so easily I was a fool . |
| 52 | ‘ If I thought I would have any chance of success , I probably would , ’ she said sarcastically . |
| 53 | The initial interview with an MD seven years my junior was largely comfortable and amicable apart from the minor irritant when he asked if I thought I could relate to young people in the office . |
| 54 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 55 | But then in the next fraction of the same instant I realized that if I thought I had ceased to exist then I existed that the very thinking of this thought was me . |
| 56 | ‘ If I thought I had no choice . |
| 57 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 58 | Yes , he did actually ask me if I thought he was sexy ! |
| 59 | He said if I thought he was going to be the Hindu Salman Rushdie , I was mistaken : he saw himself more as a Hindu P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 60 | Still , if I thought my difficulties were bad enough , some have had it worse than me . |