Example sentences of "[pron] if they had " in BNC.

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1 We 've got somebody who 's got a living assurance policy with us , it 's going to pay out er , on diagnosis of any of those serious illnesses , and then they contract H I V , which if they had originally , we obviously would n't give it to them , but they contract it after the policy is enforced .
2 You might also ask them if they had a big hi-jacking at the end of May .
3 Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps .
4 We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis .
5 It was decided it would be too traumatic for them if they had to be flown away again afterwards .
6 I consider that it could only be of assistance to them if they had that foundation with which to commence their overview of the requirements of the case and the discharge of their statutory duty under the Children Act 1989 .
7 There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other .
8 Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all .
9 The Scottish people whom I meet who work in the shipyards at Yarrow take pride in building ships for the Royal Navy whose orders would presumably be lost to them if they had the pleasure of being represented by an SNP policy .
10 Woolley called the replacements to one side and asked them if they had flown an SE before .
11 Well there is n't anything for them if they had n't gone .
12 She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us .
13 But he added that they could have had serious consequences for her if they had been true .
14 She tried to remember Isabelle objectively — wondering how she would have regarded her if they had simply met as strangers , but all she could call to mind was her mother 's warmth , and gentleness and capacity for love , and a slow anger began to build in her .
15 I was asking her if they had a a stand for a cake , she said yes .
16 No but if they if they had one it er it serves .
17 Should there be any emergency he was to phone Dockhead police station , or they would phone him if they had reason to call .
18 They would not have recognized him if they had passed him in the street .
19 When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head .
20 Fred understood Sukie 's vengeful ruse , and most people could have guessed it if they had cared to , which they did n't .
21 Nor have seen the sense to it if they had .
22 What if they had been English saboteurs , Maclean demanded .
23 On the other hand , she thought miserably , what if they had already made love , and were now dozing ; before waking to start all over again ?
24 Clearly , some of the needs now met by social services departments would be better met by the old people themselves if they had the financial means to preserve their own independence .
25 It was for reasons such as these that in June 1981 we used the educational press to invite schools , colleges , and teachers to contact us if they had ‘ undertaken self-evaluation , self-assessment , self-monitoring or curriculum review ’ .
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