Example sentences of "if you [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless I say if you knocked him down . |
| 2 | And the surround used to have nice fancy work round you know to make it so it would n't stand on the table cos me mother bought one of those because it used to be a bit dangerous on the table if you knocked it you see and |
| 3 | Ask him how he 'd like it if you poked something up his rear end . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it 'd be better if you wrote him , ’ Rose suggested . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 7 | Well if you died you 'd be dead . |
| 8 | Fifth , last night was the most important night of my life so far , and I 'd very much like to know if you meant what you said to me when we were making love , Virginia . |
| 9 | Sentiments in very vulgar verses I would n't wonder if you meant them . |
| 10 | ‘ You say it , ’ said Zeinab sombrely , ‘ as if you meant it . |
| 11 | is giving their answers away in fact , what we did , the team of four , is they all had a little pad of paper , if you spotted something you knew , you went and you wrote it down because people we there . |
| 12 | Out in the open the bird can fly enormous distances , so even if you spotted one , the chances are it would have flown miles away before you could get your camera ready to shoot . |
| 13 | Truly , all the oceans would rise if you commanded them ! ’ |
| 14 | If you motivated him — ’ |
| 15 | It was ‘ Sign this ’ and if you questioned anything you got shouted at . |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said the little boy , ‘ but it might taste better if you cooked it in the frying pan ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not as if you planned it , ’ she said quietly , for some incomprehensible reason trying to ease his distress . |
| 18 | I said he had various slightly eccentric habits and tastes , but that if you ignored them you quickly got through to the real Oliver . |
| 19 | If you carried it too green , erm I ca n't remember that happening to our but I 've heard of some people , having to cut a shaft down into the stack you know . |
| 20 | If you forced someone to live on nuts and lentils they 'd go roaring on to the European Court of Human Rights or something . ’ |
| 21 | If you shared it out between three people how many so they all got the same how many would they get ? |
| 22 | If you shared it out between three . |
| 23 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |
| 24 | I think he 'd be interested if you heard anything tonight . |
| 25 | ‘ The only thing which disturbs me is if you brought me down here on false pretenses . |
| 26 | Will you be able to share papers because er erm and therefore those papers which we 're about to discuss , you had your admissions if you brought your papers with you yes ? |
| 27 | But they were making an offer , if you brought your old machine in they 'd offer you thirty pound off . |
| 28 | ‘ In that case it would be better if you brought us up to date with what 's been happening first . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , i if he , if you said something like that to him and he went away and he did n't turn up for two or three days , you would never live with yourself . |
| 30 | All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that . |