Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everyone played the same chess game , it would be stalemate . |
| 2 | Payment would be based on a pooled system : if everyone wanted the same coverage costs would be shared . |
| 3 | Well , actually , looking at the erm , premiums in the book , and it worked out that the total I was paying out in endowments , if I got the same level of cover under the protected savings plan , over twenty five years with living assurance , it was , it was only working about seven pound more , you know , |
| 4 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 5 | You 'd be black yourself , Stephen , if someone said the same thing about Kate . " |
| 6 | But you would n't have any teeth if you stayed the same age . |
| 7 | So , if we had the same range of materials on video as we do on audio , would we continue to use audio in language teaching ? |
| 8 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 9 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 10 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 11 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 12 | If they thought the same way as Joe Punter , they 'd be Joe Punter , and somebody else would be having all the fun . ’ |
| 13 | If they did the same thing again to you ? |
| 14 | But in France if they did the same thing they would be talking in French down their machine . |
| 15 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 16 | She knew she was in love with him , but did n't know if he felt the same way about her . |