Example sentences of "[pron] if it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Director could n't ask what it was , not without implicating himself if it went wrong . |
| 2 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 3 | My Dad would murder me if it happened to me . ’ |
| 4 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 5 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 6 | I said to the farmers we s you should cut grass and you get nitrates into the water and I said to the farmers er er about their slurry throwing erm a muck across the land , we know the problems that causes , I said if we came out with fertilisers which were would you buy them if it costed a bit more . |
| 7 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 8 | The public had a right to be properly informed , which could only be denied them if it appeared absolutely certain that the article would have presented a threat to judicial authority . |
| 9 | I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals . |
| 10 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 11 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 12 | ‘ If that were the only stumbling-block , I 'd put all my weight behind you if it came to a showdown with the pater . |
| 13 | The defendants were in breach of their statutory duty in failing to provide safety belts but advanced evidence to show that the plaintiff would not have worn one if it had been provided . |
| 14 | Yet the feminist analysis of insults , from the small to the truly gross , would miss something if it stopped there . |
| 15 | It must mean a lot to her if it made her cry . |
| 16 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
| 17 | This might impede her if it came to a fight , but that was unlikely . |
| 18 | Susan hoped the skill would come back to her if it came to guns . |
| 19 | That letter would really show her if it appeared in a magazine . |
| 20 | ‘ She might have forgiven him if it had been anyone else , you mean ? ’ |
| 21 | have been him if it had been in the south , with me . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The APB would never have made it if it had all been practitioners . |
| 24 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 25 | If it if it had been a tie we would have tossed a coin . |
| 26 | It fitted Belinda perfectly … and she acknowledged inwardly that she might have preferred it if it had n't . |
| 27 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 28 | Nor does the contrary proposition , that the law does not contain the clear meaning if the legislators did not intend it and would have rejected it if it had been brought to their attention . |
| 29 | ‘ He would never have made it if it had n't been for you . |
| 30 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |