Example sentences of "if [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 2 | Richard erm if I now got to the stage of saying if if you had a choice , cos I have a luxury here of six companies er most recruiters just have one job for one company . |
| 3 | So if anybody would like to shout out if there 's not an accurate well if somebody actually listened to it . |
| 4 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 5 | So if you just sold to that at a small surgery that 's what your earnings would be . |
| 6 | you 're not geared to do anything else , it 's cos your attitude I suppose , anything else , if you really had to , er I do n't see why it would n't |
| 7 | ‘ I want to know if you ever wrote to him and asked him to meet you . ’ |
| 8 | Ten-year-old Trevor Kachel , of Belgrave Road , said : ‘ I like boxing because it means I can defend yourself if you ever needed to . |
| 9 | Because we , even if we ever came to a final close if |
| 10 | If we ever got to a siege economy he , Jim , dreaded the effect on our democracy . |
| 11 | Vigno , who had served with the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , intimated that if we ever got to Corsica we would be expected to do it in under forty minutes . |
| 12 | if we ever thought to ourselves what we 're doing |
| 13 | Great care has been taken in the current depression , for example , to construct the image of scrounging , fiddling , laziness and greed as characteristic of the unemployed who ‘ could find work if they really wanted to ’ or whose misfortune can be explained by ‘ the irresponsible pay demands and restrictive practices ’ of those still in work . |
| 14 | Er they night go back to it then if they really wanted to , or usually there was a reason for it . |
| 15 | As for some of these Territorial officers — temporary officers , he labelled them … about as likely to amount to anything if they ever went to war as a commercial traveller or a third rate comedian in a music hall . |
| 16 | Oddly reassured by that very lack of sympathy , Luce followed him on legs that felt as if they hardly belonged to her . |
| 17 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 18 | If it ever came to making hard choices over monetary policy or economic policy where the needs of one region or country conflicted with those of Germany , it is fanciful to think that her priorities , as the self-styled ‘ motor ’ of Europe , would not prevail . |
| 19 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |
| 20 | If it ever came to the crunch … |
| 21 | ‘ If it ever came to it , you could n't do it , you know . |
| 22 | An organization which if it ever came to be formed will be representing nearly two million people . |
| 23 | I do n't know if it ever occurred to me to regret my inability to have a child by Jean-Claude . |
| 24 | On one occasion , when Sarah Bernhardt was the guest of honour at a Savoy dinner , he cooked the greater part of the meal at a side table under her very eyes ; his carving of the duck was a flamboyant display of swordsmanship ; when asked if he ever went to the theatre he replied that he would rather see six gourmets eating a perfectly cooked meal than watch the finest performance of Bernhardt or of Coquelin . |