Example sentences of "[vb pp] if i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 2 | and he just said oh I 'm so sorry he said I would n't have come if I had known , but there was a massive wreath in the garden where that girl was knocked over |
| 3 | Of course it is easy to look back now and say , well , would anyone have noticed if I had left my shoes lying around the changing room instead of buckling them up inside my satchel when I changed into my gym kit for classes with the Butcher ? |
| 4 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 5 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |
| 6 | ‘ What would you have done if I 'd gone down ? ’ he asked when we were back on level ground . |
| 7 | ‘ What would you have done if I 'd refused to help ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 9 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll be ruined if I have to pay ! ’ |
| 11 | What would you have said if I 'd suggested that ? ’ |
| 12 | He he has said if I do go for maintenance he 'll deny that Ricky 's his . |
| 13 | You go , Joanna — you know Ian Woodall , so that wo n't be embarrassing for you , but I 'm blowed if I want to meet Robert Sheldrake socially . ’ |
| 14 | Bits of Meccano lay around waiting to be pilfered if I 'd had the courage . |
| 15 | ‘ No , the pouch was sealed and the Lady Eleanor would soon have realised if I 'd tampered with it . |
| 16 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 17 | Similarly , I can not be refuted if I claim to experience a religious emotion . |
| 18 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 19 | I can surely do what I like on my day off , not be reproached if I choose to come home early because I feel tired , and secondly , as I said before , I am not playing games . |
| 20 | Perhaps the worst scourge is the thought that you might have listened and might have understood if I had managed to tell you what had happened . |
| 21 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 22 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 23 | I was asked if I wanted to go . |
| 24 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 25 | My terrors would have increased if I had known how once again Murder was stalking us , in that Godforsaken place . |
| 26 | I would n't of gone if I 'd known |
| 27 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 28 | I would n't have minded if I 'd had a bump on my head , a cross on it or a bullet through it . |
| 29 | But in saying that , I , I would n't of minded if I had to go to college full-time cos I enjoyed it . |
| 30 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |