Example sentences of "that if [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be we are afraid that if they understood our needs they might use that information in some way to exploit us . |
| 2 | I have no doubt that if they owned their council house they would now be very busily selling and buying and selling and buying . |
| 3 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 4 | This meant that they would n't be back before the pubs closed , but I also knew that if they knew who I was going out with they would have locked me in . |
| 5 | I 'm sure that if they saw you cry , I swear to God if they saw you crying things would be slightly different . |
| 6 | Gotrek claimed that if they wished they could come to Karaz-a-Karak with an army and plead for its return . |
| 7 | One particularly successful firm said that LEDU officials suggested that they relocate in Antrim , and that if they did they would be open to considerably more funding . |
| 8 | I stayed still , hoping desperately that they would not see me , for I knew that if they did they would lose no time in tormenting me and finally killing me . |
| 9 | The questions maybe that if they did what was reasonable , did they carry it out in a reasonable way . |
| 10 | The lawyers commented that the Minister was giving detainees the message that if they wanted their demand for freedom to be taken seriously they had to go on hunger strike and become very ill . |
| 11 | Before they started , he had warned his people on this , pointing out that if they allowed themselves to be delayed , they themselves would be in grave danger of being ridden down by their own fellows on the return charge . |
| 12 | After the case was adjourned , the couple said that if they lost their home , they 'd lose their livelihood too . |
| 13 | Her involvement in many issues prompted Bill Clinton to tell people during the early Democratic primaries that if they elected him , they would get Hillary too . |
| 14 | Ken 's method on such occasions was to raise his voice — on the theory that if nobody recognized his face , they would n't fail to relate to the sounds he was making , the variety of Kenneth Williams voices , alternately cockney , Oxford and the sing-song that went with most of his radio characters . |
| 15 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 16 | Barth thought that if we knew what we meant by the word ‘ God ’ , then God must exist . |
| 17 | And he — that is , he and Goibniu , thought that if we asked you — well , consulted you — you might provide a spell to get her free , ’ said Caspar . |
| 18 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 19 | And I suspect that if we offered them counselling from cater good catering advice on how to maximise their market return they 'll do it because I would n't hang about for a meal if I knew that they would n't give you a meal in fifteen minutes , I 'd go and eat somewhere else . |
| 20 | I 'm prepared to hazard a guess that if we searched your belongings we 'd find a perfectly respectable tube of toothpaste there . ’ |
| 21 | No doubt we were all thinking he was crazy , or that if we stopped we 'd be late for work . |
| 22 | So then I got back on to Gwyllam and said that if we provided our own caravan , would you someone there be willing to do the from site to site and he said that would n't be a problem . |
| 23 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 24 | I told Mike Teague beforehand that if we lost it would mean the end of the road for a few of us . ’ |
| 25 | Try as we might to tell ourselves that it 's ‘ what 's on the inside that counts ’ , we have very little evidence to show that it 's true , and inside and outside can become confused , so that we feel bad on the inside but believe that if we altered what 's on the outside ( our bodies ) we could change how we feel . |
| 26 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 27 | She had n't formulated much of a plan , but she knew instinctively that if anything happened it would be there . |
| 28 | I suspect that if you asked your family and friends to list every day items which could have been made from C&P products they would find it difficult . |
| 29 | I think you 'll agree you 're in a much stronger position that if you left it for months , and then went back . |
| 30 | Cos if you see the , the theory was that if you left it there indefinitely , er obviously the money declines in real value , does n't it , because you 're getting no increase on it . |