Example sentences of "[vb past] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 2 | and erm er that 's what I used if you want to borrow that you can . |
| 3 | To qualify as a model foster parent you had to be at the wealthier level of the middle class , with an already established family ; it helped if you lived in the country ( away from urban enticements ) , spoke a little German , and could tolerate moody children who suffered bouts of depression and were inclined to long silences . |
| 4 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 5 | If it still remains uncomfortable , then we , then we need to have a closer look and we may need to get the eye specialist involved if it 's refused to settle down . |
| 6 | You do seem to enjoy watching nude bathers , so do n't you think it would be much better for everyone involved if you went somewhere where they did n't mind being watched ? ’ |
| 7 | On reflection , though , she doubted if she 'd got enough crocks or cutlery and ‘ what was they going ter sit on ? ’ |
| 8 | I doubted if he 'd heard . |
| 9 | before people twigged if you like , that what had actually happened amounted to hardly anything more than a change of sort of managerial personnel . |
| 10 | Everyone knew how important punctuality was to Laura ; she believed if you arrived late it could only be because you had not started out early enough . |
| 11 | When it goes , I mean I 'm speaking as a resident of The Stow and I know there 's lot 's of complaints and shop keepers and er people in the flats and that round you know the shops there and you do feel a bit intimidated if you walk through The Stow at night . |
| 12 | give me a deposit on it , I get it M O T 'd if you change your bloody mind too bad |
| 13 | ‘ I imagined if we agreed to Jennifer going somewhere that would be that and she would n't come home again . ’ |
| 14 | I think she imagined if she did n't think about it it might go away . |
| 15 | I learnt if you want the party to continue , you have to chill . |
| 16 | It roared if anyone went near it . |
| 17 | With sin and corruption , doom and catastrophe , threatening on every side , the only danger from the clergy came if they failed to know or do their job . |
| 18 | She would put her elbows on the table , she would be allowed wine , she would read a book while she ate if she wanted to . |
| 19 | So Babushka trudged through the snow , asking everyone she met if they had seen the kings . |
| 20 | I 'd send every letter I 've written you since we last met if I thought you would n't do it to me again , humiliate me again . |
| 21 | However , I realized if I looked at it underwater , it was bigger . |
| 22 | In the sixties , fashion was such that a girl or a fella could afford a new Biba dress or John Stephen shirt every other week , they cost 35s 9d and who cared if they fell apart at the launderette . |
| 23 | Nobody cared if she lived or died . |
| 24 | Quite , quite frankly I , I ca n't see Walsall moving , because it seems to have been money wasted if they 've made Fellas Park good and then they move somewhere else . |
| 25 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd know where I lived if I saw it , but just at the moment I ca n't remember the name of the street it 's in , and the policeman would n't know if I do n't have the address . |
| 27 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 28 | Often we would design something specially ; if someone rang and asked if we had a Mexican outfit for a feature on Mexican clothes we 'd say ‘ yes ’ and within a day have a sample made up which fitted in with a Mexican look . ’ |
| 29 | We were getting on great and at the end they asked if we had drink at home . |
| 30 | One energetic character asked if we minded waiting while he climbed another two hundred feet to see what the view over a nearby rise was like . |