Example sentences of "if you got [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What if you got posted ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you got rid of the hereditary right to vote you would lose 85 per cent of the problems . |
| 3 | If you got rid of it — for example , by using the word astronaut instead — it would be easier to conceptualise a woman in space . |
| 4 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 5 | But it 'd save a lot of hard work if you got rid of quite a lot of it . |
| 6 | No , no , if you got called away there would n't be anybody to take over until the next relief if , if the man was coming up the dock with two yo yo well you would n't be able to get in touch with him either . |
| 7 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 8 | It was just going from one to the others , if you got fed up you just , when you left the school you put your name in them all and |
| 9 | T. D. You could always have a cigarette if you wanted it but if you got caught , you were in trouble . |
| 10 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 11 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 12 | If you got sued for selling someone a rotten second-hand car , you 'd have to get a lawyer and he 'd be a university graduate , too . |
| 13 | Would you ev would you ever get any comeback from you your father , if you got told told off at school ? |
| 14 | If you got left behind by the Army you 'd be lucky to come back alive , and that 's no exaggeration . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you help if you got paid for it ? ’ |
| 16 | Well you would n't say that if you got knocked down and broke your thigh would you ? |