Example sentences of "and if [pron] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From now on the locals would do what they were told to do by Detroit , and if they did n't like it they could take the option of either getting out of their own free will , or being booted out . |
| 4 | Members were discouraged from bringing along a personal caddie and if they did they still had to pay the caddie master the fee he would have received , irrespective of whether there was a caddie available or not ! |
| 5 | Can we really expect them to retain the same way of thinking as they had as penniless hopefuls , and if they did would n't that simply be an insipid patronisations ? |
| 6 | ‘ No one would see it , and if they did they could n't very well ride it away with a flat tyre . |
| 7 | Seventy-nine per cent saw the sufferer daily ( and if they did not live with him or her this often involved several visits per day ) . |
| 8 | As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’ |
| 9 | Probably they did n't see a thing , and if they did , well , they 've both seen blokes in the bath before now — ’ |
| 10 | A customer who produced a credit card could take away goods without payment on the implied promise to pay within a month , and if they did ( which the vast majority did ) they would not be charged interest for being lent the amount they would otherwise have had to pay across the counter . |
| 11 | And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge . |
| 12 | Like many other constructors in FI , Chapman thought drivers were good , bad or indifferent tools to do a job : if they did the job well , so much the better , and if they did n't , the fault was theirs . |
| 13 | It also transpired that the couple owned their own house and if they did move to Huntingdon , they would have to live in a council house . |
| 14 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 15 | ‘ And if they did n't get their Information from downstairs , ’ Charlotte said , ‘ there are other sources . |
| 16 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 17 | There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they did n't they asked and I told them . |
| 18 | And if they did n't get up when the Night Sister switched the lights on , they were on the Matron 's mat , and they lost that hour . |
| 19 | Oh no if the if the if the if the if the owners well they were privately owned then the mines were and if they did n't want to er get the coal out you did n't work . |
| 20 | And if they did they would n't be laughing ; they 'd be too busy tracking their way through the undergrowth . |
| 21 | They 'd hire them for a couple of months and then if they worked out they 'd keep them on , paying them a pittance , and if they did n't , they 'd say ‘ sorry ’ and the guy would go away . |
| 22 | These three points were the bedrock of the idea of the axis connecting the three points and if they did n't hold up , the other targets would fall by the wayside . |
| 23 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 24 | Most of them left me alone whilst I wrote and if they did want something they waited till I looked up . |
| 25 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 26 | And if they did , how would a pair of Siamese souls work , exactly ? |
| 27 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 28 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 29 | And if they did n't ? |
| 30 | Maybe they will … and if they did , then I 'd know what to say . |