Example sentences of "and if [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I mean any of us really could sit down and draw up a list of er of things where , if we , you know , a list of rules if e war for a very small subscription ornot many groups other and if everybody stuck by them , everything would be wonderful |
| 2 | S. H. Patrolling up Prescot Road during the war , if I saw a light on , I used to shout , ‘ Put that bloody light out , ’ and if nobody put the light out , we used to let fly with a brick . |
| 3 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 5 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 6 | His reasoning , as ever practical , was that it was a chore having to empty the thing , and if one had a second , it would be unnecessary . |
| 7 | ‘ Certainly , it would be extraordinarily clever if it were true — and if one had ever thought you were the sort of man to be manipulated . |
| 8 | Moreover , my main objection to Mr Graham 's analogy was the implication that this ‘ dignity ’ was something one possessed or did not by a fluke of nature ; and if one did not self-evidently have it , to strive after it would be as futile as an ugly woman trying to make herself beautiful . |
| 9 | At Liz 's party , last night , there had been bosses : Charles himself was an archetypal boss , and if one did n't know Liz so well one might think she was one too . |
| 10 | And if one started to lust after it oneself , as much as the men — and let them see that one lusted — then what weapon had one left ? |
| 11 | Until Hopkin & Williams published its paper in The Analyst ( 1961 , p464 ) , every laboratory had its own preferred prime standardisation substance , and if one moved from one lab to another one would find that the primary standard — say sodium hydrogen phthalate , borax or sodium carbonate — produced a slightly different standard acid from the one the old laboratory used . |
| 12 | And if one moved like the wind in branches , the other 's motion was a tower falling , a frightening , uncoordinated progression in which he seemed to crash forward uncontrollably at each stride , jerking himself stiffly upright and swaying for a moment on his heels before the next toppling step . |
| 13 | There was uproar when the Navy discovered the mines and Stirling had to own up , only to be told that they often dropped small depth charges at random into the harbour and if they saw anything suspicious sprayed the area with machine guns . |
| 14 | T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move . |
| 15 | As late as 1970 members of A $ L , to my knowledge , had never heard of Debord , and if they had were not the least bit interested . |
| 16 | But , again , no one seems to have considered that as an option ; and if they had , it would have been highly unpopular and , if implemented , its effects slow and perhaps ultimately unsatisfactory . |
| 17 | This would show how well the catapult worked and if they had to make any adjustments in their aim . |
| 18 | But the novelists had never heard of Marx and Engels — and if they had heard of them and their ideas , they would probably have recoiled in horror , perceiving the threat to their own privileged position . |
| 19 | If his parents had not separated , and if they had remained living in Rustenburg ( two big ifs , not necessarily related ) , it is likely that we should never have heard of John Cranko . |
| 20 | And if they had to brave that to make a phone call , they might as well press on for home . |
| 21 | The land that formed the estate and the acre John owned in the city centre are now important parts of Sydney and if they had been retained in Piper ownership until developed , his descendants could have been fabulously rich . |
| 22 | Then — ‘ And if they had n't come ? ’ the engineer said . |
| 23 | They were asked what instruction they had received , whether they put drops in by themselves and if they had experienced any problems . |
| 24 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 25 | ‘ And if they had been discussed then he might not have gone . |
| 26 | ‘ IT 'S ALL about a bunch of old lags who probably should n't , but help themselves they could n't , and if they had to do it again they would n't … ‘ |
| 27 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 28 | And if they had known , what could they have done ? |
| 29 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 30 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |