Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’
2 ‘ Tell me , ’ he complained , ‘ what would be your reaction if I told you the moon just fell out of the sky ? ’
3 As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’
4 Well if I knew who the hell Dawn 's brother was !
5 ‘ You would n't come out here if I sent you the money for the air ticket , would you ? ’
6 Well I suppose I 'm sure Adrian wo n't mind if I paid him the day after or a week after or something .
7 If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time …
8 All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’
9 He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital .
10 So the gradient gives you a mea If I gave you the gradient , if I said the gradient is one , what would the angle be ?
11 What would you do if I gave you the jade ?
12 If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree .
13 Earlier this year the mother of three , who counts Warren Beatty and George Hamilton among her former beaus , was quoted as saying : ‘ If someone gave me the cash I 'd have a facelift this minute . ’
14 Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle
15 Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth .
16 Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ?
17 She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship .
18 I did n't care if she called me the son of Frankenstein .
19 If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist .
20 If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance .
21 If you knew what the oil companies are putting in the sea .
22 If you knew what the combination of circumstances were , then you could perhaps re-do your spreadsheet with a different way to avoid it .
23 If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter .
24 So if you lost something the ninety would increase accordingly ?
25 Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time .
26 But it 's so chancy that way uh and I do n't think either if you gave y'self the role or y'know , the title , say , of school counsellor or whatever that you … it would work .
27 Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that .
28 Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that .
29 We can imagine that , if we believed what the Calvinists believed , we would have behaved in the same way .
30 Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ .
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