Example sentences of "if they say " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they said , ‘ I shall tell the Headmaster of you ! ’ we said to each other , |
| 2 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 3 | If they said , ‘ Officer , there 's a quid to square it ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ If they said there was no danger , I would have to stand down from any further action on the matter . ’ |
| 5 | If they said John was acting as a man , they would make the people angry because they considered John to be a prophet . |
| 6 | If they said John was a prophet and thereby received his authority from God , they would be criticised for not listening to him . |
| 7 | ‘ What if they said yes , I can stay with you ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd rear up on players if they said anything and footballers are n't the bravest people in the world , so they used to think twice before they said anything to me and that helped me . ’ |
| 9 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 10 | Thus , if they said of a group of red objects simply ‘ red ’ , their answer is taken to be unsatisfactory because ‘ we are not told what is red ’ . |
| 11 | If they said I was mad it used to make me feel good . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Okay if they said they got four twelfths . |
| 14 | If they said they got six twelfths ? |
| 15 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , but what they do n't say probably would n't frizzle your ears if they said it , ’ explained Lydia , not at her most lucid . |
| 17 | Now if they said , if a baby was under five pounds it , it would n't survive . |
| 18 | If they said , would you please give five hundred pounds towards our running costs , there 's a chance we would have looked at it |
| 19 | " Now , if they said " I never forget a name " — Aloud she said , " He 's working with Matthew . |
| 20 | Or if they said , well , I can manage on that half until the year 's expired , and then have one plan kick in at fifty two weeks , with the full benefits . |
| 21 | If they said to us we 're not going to insure you because you have black people staying people staying it would be illegal but because it 's poor people they can dictate to us . |
| 22 | yes but it seemed a bit far fetched , if they said that |
| 23 | If they said you can go anywhere you like it would , that would cause I would , I would have difficulty deciding . |
| 24 | And she was so toffee-nosed as if they said the curtains . |
| 25 | It would n't be , I would n't say oh no you ca n't have it , but I 'd say well you 'll receive it in a couple of days time and if they said oh well that 's not good enough , then fair enough , you , you know . |
| 26 | As I say , if they said , you know I mean I , I do n't know whether that much will take a lot |
| 27 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 28 | Well , if they said they 'd cancel it anyway . |
| 29 | Well , if they said that erm |
| 30 | If they say ‘ nothing much ’ — and they usually do — I reply , ‘ At least I 've got something to talk about ’ . ’ |