Example sentences of "[coord] if [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do me great honor in proposing me as your President , & if I did not feel that my acceptance of this favour would tend much to defeat the laudable object of your pursuit I should most certainly gratify my own ambition , & have the pleasure to preside at your meetings . |
| 2 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 3 | Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour . |
| 4 | Er only if erm the mother was torn at all or , or if you did n't think the baby was coming as it should , there was problems there , then you , you would . |
| 5 | For a start he would drown , or if he did n't drown he would suffocate ; and most probably he would have died of a heart attack when he felt the great mouth gape for him . |
| 6 | But would it have been different if Mrs Thatcher had had a spell on income support ? or if she had ever lugged a buggy , baby , toddler and bags of shopping on and off her infrequent , deregulated buses ? |
| 7 | ‘ Certainly , it would be extraordinarily clever if it were true — and if one had ever thought you were the sort of man to be manipulated . |
| 8 | At Liz 's party , last night , there had been bosses : Charles himself was an archetypal boss , and if one did n't know Liz so well one might think she was one too . |
| 9 | Then — ‘ And if they had n't come ? ’ the engineer said . |
| 10 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 11 | But they should put in little sort of qualifications like er er they gave people land and if they went off to fight then it would be guaranteed that the land would be tilled . |
| 12 | Oh no if the if the if the if the if the owners well they were privately owned then the mines were and if they did n't want to er get the coal out you did n't work . |
| 13 | And if they did n't want it then , they had a plastic bag they |
| 14 | These three points were the bedrock of the idea of the axis connecting the three points and if they did n't hold up , the other targets would fall by the wayside . |
| 15 | And they they even had a gun in with them and if they did n't go by the third shot They fired in the air you see . |
| 16 | And if they did n't pay within them twenty eight days or |
| 17 | From now on the locals would do what they were told to do by Detroit , and if they did n't like it they could take the option of either getting out of their own free will , or being booted out . |
| 18 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 19 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 20 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 21 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 22 | However , I still think that there must be an easier way for hotlines to work — if all publishers used the same system , for example , and if they did n't insist on choosing the titles . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And if they did n't get their Information from downstairs , ’ Charlotte said , ‘ there are other sources . |
| 24 | And if they did n't get up when the Night Sister switched the lights on , they were on the Matron 's mat , and they lost that hour . |
| 25 | And if they did n't come out in segments , then the middle fell out as you transferred the pale object to your plate . |
| 26 | Seventy-nine per cent saw the sufferer daily ( and if they did not live with him or her this often involved several visits per day ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 29 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 30 | It remains the situation that if we had not altered the income tax regime that we inherited when we came to office , and if we had merely indexed the rates and allowances , the average family would be paying £1,200 more in income tax . |