Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
2 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
3 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
4 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
5 | I would n't cos I , I ca n't if I saw you in the street I do n't know you I could n't be , I could n't be attracted to you . |
6 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
7 | Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not . |
8 | By the way , I 'm sorry if I dropped you in the soup just now . ’ |
9 | I do n't know if I passed her in the street |
10 | Thereafter , if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase , those eyes registered no recognition . |
11 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
12 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
13 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
14 | I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’ |
15 | I think these 'd probably be better if I did them on the one you suggested for |
16 | The tragedy unfolds through wonderful music — from the tentative If I Loved You to the final tear-jerker You 'll Never Walk Alone . |
17 | If I hit it with the chair-back … |
18 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
19 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
20 | ‘ Like if someone put something in the food , eh ? , sooner or later everyone will be ill . ’ |
21 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
22 | Erm tells you a lot it would n't erm if somebody hit you in the back you 'd still move if you had the handbrake on . |
23 | But she would make him pay for this , she vowed to herself silently , even if she killed herself in the process ! |
24 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
25 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
26 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
27 | It was easier , for example , to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film , possibly played by Orson Welles . |
28 | The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples . |
29 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
30 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |