Example sentences of "[vb past] if [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josh had the newspaper spread out in front of him on the table , but Ruth felt sure that he had not been reading it ; she doubted if he even knew it was there . |
| 2 | Her action always embarrassed him , but as it was unobtrusive he doubted if anyone else noticed it . |
| 3 | She was worried that she would n't have an accurate idea of what she ate if she just picked and nibbled . |
| 4 | It was only half way through my life , I suddenly realized if you really want something , go for it . |
| 5 | Who cared if he never rose any higher than H.S.O. ? |
| 6 | ‘ She said she was a real fan , and loved the Royal Family , and asked if her best regards could be passed on , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The superintendent asked if he really meant what he had just said . |
| 8 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone on the set who did n't know her asked if she really had been ill recently and I said no , she 's actually quite young and looks amazing underneath all that . |
| 10 | How could he say that God was all vague promises , and small print on guarantees that no one knew if He ever kept ? |
| 11 | I thought if I just had a man who had a yacht and he had a rolls royce and a yacht . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew you 'd tracked me down , so I thought if I only took some of it you would n't put the cops on me . |
| 13 | ‘ We had a YMCA over the road — but I thought if I ever came back I 'd go into the Raffles Hotel . ’ |
| 14 | There was quite a social calendar to keep me occupied if I ever tired of my own company . |
| 15 | and said if they ever had any problems to get in touch . |
| 16 | Well I says to Lindsey , said if you ever want me out of that hospital Lindsey you 'd better start and be good . |
| 17 | A couple of months before , my Dad said if I ever did get pregnant he 'd chuck me out , so I thought they would . " |
| 18 | He said if she then sold her house he said put the capital he said alright he said she with not buying a you know , another house now you know the fact is he said alright if she got one in her area or wherever . |
| 19 | I must admit , if I had if I actually had to say , which of all those would I be most happy not playing , I 'd say In the Bleak Midwinter , but |
| 20 | You completely the wife actually what erm another good point was that you got in are , are there dependants there were certain close questions again , the fact that the wife smoked a pipe gave you the opportunity to turn round and say well that 's , that 's good , that 's a benefit because she could be classed as a non-smoker there 's just wee er opportunities there and that 's as much as I had if anyone else wants to add to these comments . |
| 21 | The Marshal , his big eyes rolling round the depressing room lit by one dusty light-bulb because the small , barred window hardly let in any light , wondered if they ever managed it . |
| 22 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 23 | I wondered if they too felt the presence of Freud 's serene wisdom , his lucid intelligence . |
| 24 | But I wondered if everybody else knew . |
| 25 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 26 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 27 | She wondered if he ever thought of her . |
| 28 | She sometimes wondered if he ever gave her a thought between departing from Taipei early on Monday mornings and his Friday evening returns . |
| 29 | He was still naked and seemed so relaxed in that state that she wondered if he often wandered around like that . |
| 30 | Conscious of his enigmatic scrutiny , she wondered if he always ordered his guests about in a series of curt commands . |