Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And if thee do n't eat thy black pudding reet this minute he 'll come doon chimney and out o feature coal-effect bar fire and gobble thee op .
2 And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way .
3 If yours has n't reached you by the end of July , or you live outside the London area but fancy coming up for the occasion , please phone Pensions Department on freefone 0800 262 072 .
4 If I 'd not escaped when you made a prisoner of me … .
5 If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity .
6 If I 'd not had Louisa I do n't suppose I would have pushed myself when I had the job interview .
7 If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers .
8 If I said not take for granted in here advantage .
9 If I 've not forgotten . ’
10 There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets .
11 If I had not discovered through Exchange and Mart that Lowestoft was the home of the leading ( and cheapest ) breeder of Main Coon kittens in the country , I would not now be mounting the Sir John , clutching a cardboard box riddled with air holes and marked Pac-a-Pet .
12 BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers .
13 We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office .
14 Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap .
15 Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap .
16 If I had not loved him , I should have left him , ’ Laura said .
17 In fact , he was so eager to be off that he would have left it in the street if I had not insisted that he should take the coals to his mother . ’
18 If I had not intervened on these pages to explain a few points this book ( or its opening section ) would be a gun aimed at my own temple .
19 Its magnitude is only 9 according to official estimates ; I have never seen it with low-power binoculars , but I have suspected it with × 20 , though I would not have noticed it if I had not known just where it was .
20 ‘ Angel — I would not have married you if I had not known that , after all , there is a way out for you … only I hoped you would never …
21 A number of mourners were quite abusive after the service and if I had not found the funeral so moving I would of asked one or two to step into the vestry .
22 It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment .
23 I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle .
24 I might have learnt to like Stephen Fry 's version of Jeeves on television , if I had not read those maddening articles in which he was eager to give away my money in order to soothe his conscience .
25 I would be failing in my duty to the school if I had not read it . ’
26 I would find the hon. Lady 's argument more credible if I had not experienced the difficulties of trying to remember , when on Tyneside to talk about Tyneside .
27 Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole .
28 I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door .
29 If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it .
30 If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived .
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