Example sentences of "[pers pn] if it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Dad would murder me if it happened to me . ’ |
| 2 | To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ If that were the only stumbling-block , I 'd put all my weight behind you if it came to a showdown with the pater . |
| 8 | It must mean a lot to her if it made her cry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This might impede her if it came to a fight , but that was unlikely . |
| 11 | Susan hoped the skill would come back to her if it came to guns . |
| 12 | That letter would really show her if it appeared in a magazine . |
| 13 | ‘ She might have forgiven him if it had been anyone else , you mean ? ’ |
| 14 | have been him if it had been in the south , with me . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The APB would never have made it if it had all been practitioners . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If it if it had been a tie we would have tossed a coin . |
| 19 | It fitted Belinda perfectly … and she acknowledged inwardly that she might have preferred it if it had n't . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ He would never have made it if it had n't been for you . |
| 23 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 24 | Eubank is also asking for £1m to fight Benn once more but admitted : ‘ I would even take it if it meant that the winner got Pounds 1m and the loser only half as much — the fight is that important to me . ’ |
| 25 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 26 | Well , this was the greatest challenge of her life and she would damn well face it if it killed her . |
| 27 | All also said they would prefer it if it came in a pot , rather than in the single-application , fiddly pea-sized plastic spheres . |
| 28 | And if it if it came an air raid you started scurrying to the hill to get in the tunnel . |
| 29 | The Moslems would n't accept it if it came straight from him . ’ |
| 30 | Let him believe it if it helped . |