Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel was horribly sensible if you tried to fight with her . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’ |
| 3 | They could n't have been more wrong if they 'd worn Father Christmas suits . |
| 4 | You 'd have had that one wrong if you 'd done that . |
| 5 | Metal miners also experienced marked increases in money wages , but it is less clear if they managed to keep fully abreast of price increases . |
| 6 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 7 | Well it 'd show willing if we did get a bit of all on would n't it ? |
| 8 | It 'd be funny if she did fall on her nose . |
| 9 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 10 | That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher . |
| 11 | " He 'd be more dignified if you 'd left him uncovered . |
| 12 | Eddie would have to be pretty discreet about her relationship with Angy if she wanted to persuade Aunt Rosina to hand over that sketch as a keepsake . |
| 13 | There was nothing furtive in his attitude and he would have been quite unashamed if anyone had caught him . |
| 14 | Our hospitals would be empty if we tried to discriminate between self-induced or even partially self-induced illnesses , and naturally developed diseases . |
| 15 | Things would have been very different if they had stayed put . |
| 16 | And , ’ obscurely , ‘ my behaviour ’ , as you call it , might have been very different if I 'd known Hugh was a thing of the past . ’ |
| 17 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 18 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 19 | They would have felt more cautious if they 'd known one of his qualifications was that he was the most deadly marksman in Western Europe with a rifle . |
| 20 | It is true that it would not prevent the mortgagee taking possession , though it made his position in some degree uncomfortable if he did take possession . |
| 21 | I 'm considered expendable , naturally , and it would please Artai if I failed to return . ’ |
| 22 | Detectives say the young woman was left badly shaken after the assault and have warned that the incident might have become more serious if it had gone on any longer . |
| 23 | This could be serious if you had to make a side-slip to get down into field on an early flight . |
| 24 | YOU would be a bit alarmed if you woke to find a monkey hanging from your headboard . |
| 25 | Would n't it have been sad if she had lived her life with her mistaken Inner/Outer Face ? |
| 26 | And it would be rather pointless if I started trying to ape him . |
| 27 | 45760 : A voracious Beethoven Fifth , with an element of aggression that comes entirely from within and which would probably be absurd if anyone tried to re-create it . |
| 28 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 29 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 30 | It would be awful if she met Georg up there . |