Example sentences of "[coord] if [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they would n't take that trouble , but they 'd always speak to the uniform policemen , if or if they heard anyone smashing glass , but they would n't go out of their way . |
| 2 | What way they dried them , whether it was in the sun or if they 'd anything to dry them with , I do n't ken . |
| 3 | They never did know or if they did they were n't saying . |
| 4 | It is apparent from the findings of fact that the justices made no findings , or if they did they did not record them , as to whether ( i ) the child was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation , or ( ii ) that if he absconded he would be likely to suffer significant harm . |
| 5 | We went back to the villa hand in hand and no one ever knew we had been out , or if they did they did n't say . |
| 6 | Few , if any , suspected the doctor or my father of being involved ; or if they did they did not say so . |
| 7 | Or if they did it was so modern that nobody got to hear about it . |
| 8 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 9 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 10 | Or if anybody told me , I mean I would n't and talking in confidence about their private life or |
| 11 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 12 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 13 | If undoing is unsuccessful , or if you preferred your document the way it was before undoing , Undo a second time . |
| 14 | I was n't sure whether he wanted to meet God or if he thought he was God . |
| 15 | Jasper wondered if the man in uniform had actually seen Chris on the roof of the car , had had a phone call from Kensington High Street that someone was on the roof of a car , or if he knew nothing except what that woman was telling him . |
| 16 | Richmann never noticed the sudden widening of Benny 's eyes , or if he did he must have assumed it was fear at her imminent death . |
| 17 | Fred did n't appear to hear the horror in her voice , or if he did he managed to ignore it . |
| 18 | While he was painting , Modigliani barely looked at his model , ‘ or if he did it was merely to check against his portrait . |
| 19 | He would n't have described himself as landed gentry — or if he did it would be with irony . |
| 20 | Erm , I have children of my own , that I had naturally and I said yes , but with reservation because erm I I 've often wondered in the case of a handicapped baby er , that was born to a surrogate mother and the surrogate mother wanted to keep it simply because it was handicapped , or if she knew she was gon na have a handicapped baby the amniocentesis test and if she wanted to abort the baby but the mother-in-waiting did n't who would decide ? |
| 21 | Susan wondered how she would feel if he did ; or if she touched him or let him know in some other way that she was there ? |
| 22 | She would n't make a wife to any man , or if she did she 'd ruin him . ’ |
| 23 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 24 | ‘ Or if she did it was no further than the grounds . |
| 25 | The white calico drawers would be standard wear , laundered all together , and I knew , having realized that none of the patients wore their dental plates , that there was no place here for black lace with rosebuds — nor if I brought them would they be long in her possession . |
| 26 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 27 | T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move . |
| 28 | There was uproar when the Navy discovered the mines and Stirling had to own up , only to be told that they often dropped small depth charges at random into the harbour and if they saw anything suspicious sprayed the area with machine guns . |
| 29 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 30 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |