Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] [adv] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if she flatly refused to give any details … |
| 2 | It was such a good idea that she could n't think anything for a moment-as if someone else had suggested it to her , and she needed to digest it . |
| 3 | So if we only had started off with a half of it |
| 4 | Obviously they thought that by letting this sort of thing out they would have an excuse for putting him away if he ever attempted to call their bluff , " Ha ! " they would be able to say , " Crazy ; read too much SF . |
| 5 | They were new colonies which were produced by the existing colonies , even if in no friendly spirit , and the possibility that colonies could produce new colonies was likely to make the task of the government in London even harder if it ever tried to impose a unified colonial policy . |
| 6 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether . |
| 9 | Now if you really wanted to help , and you were concerned about that . |
| 10 | Now if you really wanted to help , and you were concerned about that . |
| 11 | Well if I only wanted to know the crossword and every single one is |
| 12 | The British played " a constructive part in helping to maintain world order " , even if they now had to rely on " ideas and dexterity rather than military might " . |
| 13 | Even if nothing else had changed , widespread support for the idea that ‘ Black Wednesday ’ delivered Britain to recovery would alter the character of the ERM . |
| 14 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 15 | Afterwards Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister , declared that President Gorbachev said that " he would continue on the path to reform even if he sometimes had to take a detour " . |
| 16 | West Germany was still very prosperous in the late 1970s , improvements were being made in living standards and Schmidt was able to limit the difficulties in the economy , even if he often seemed to react to events rather than to give the country any real sense of direction . |
| 17 | Even if you genuinely wished to forgo your claim , do you think Rohan would allow it ? |
| 18 | Cynthia also admitted that maybe if they really had got staffing problems they would actually have to look at whether they , they did keep maintaining the , the sub offices that they were . |
| 19 | And I should feel better having the knowledge that you were nearby if I suddenly became unhinged . ’ |
| 20 | He knew what he 'd find in the wardrobe upstairs if he ever had to search the place . |
| 21 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |