Example sentences of "if i [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was supposed to be a ‘ sensitive ’ job and if I came out I would automatically be adjudged a danger to the patients and given the elbow . |
| 2 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 3 | The first time he ever asked me if I knew where he could get ‘ coke ’ . |
| 4 | If I knew where he was , perhaps I would still try to . |
| 5 | If I knew where he was I would n't have come . |
| 6 | ‘ If I knew where he was why would I come here ? ’ |
| 7 | If I knew where it was , do you think I 'd get blown up time after time . ’ |
| 8 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 9 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |
| 10 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |
| 11 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 12 | ‘ If I knew how I meant I should n't be asking you to design it , because that 's what design is , knowing how you mean . |
| 13 | A few TV companies came and went ; it seemed very dark when their harsh lights had gone , but gradually my eyes got used to the gloom and I knew if I looked round I would see comforting , familiar faces , as people took their seats in the rows of chairs in front of the altar . |
| 14 | If I said right you 've got a second chance this morning , how could you improve that piece of work in front of you now . |
| 15 | you have commas but do n't do a comma before the last so er if I said tonight I 'm going to have sausage , egg , chips , beans , tomatoes and cake . |
| 16 | If I lived there I mean and bought a house . |
| 17 | If I had n't we 'd never have survived and we certainly would n't have the standard of living we have now . |
| 18 | Believe me , Juliet , I did n't want to tell you this , but if I had n't I know Celia would , and she does n't know the true facts . ’ |
| 19 | It was easy for me to summon up this everyday vision , because whenever I sat on the toilet the hem was stretched between my calves , and if I leant forward it was always the salient object in my view . |
| 20 | If I went there I should n't know which bit to aim for . |
| 21 | If I went back I 'd go to er , I probably go to Sousse or somewhere like that . |
| 22 | If I went anywhere it would be to Florida and Las Vegas for gambling . ’ |
| 23 | If I pulled out he would probably do me over for being a chicken , but if I competed and beat him ( unlikely but not impossible ) … well , I might as well have booked my hospital bed then and there . |
| 24 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 25 | ‘ If I did n't we would n't be here , ’ Newman told him . |
| 26 | Erm I do n't know if I gave you , and if I did n't I need to , the things that I 've called recordings logs , that are different than meeting logs . |
| 27 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 28 | ’ I think people find me obnoxious because I wo n't admit that I secretly loathe Kyle Minogue and Jason Donovan , but I really do think they 're great artists — if I did n't I 'd be the biggest hypocrite in the world . |
| 29 | Yeah well I 'll ask I 'll ask my mum but if I if I did n't I 'm gon na have to get perhaps |
| 30 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |