Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My former wife disliked not only the taste of it herself but refused to come near me if I succumbed to its temptation . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ as if I meant to ! |
| 3 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 4 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 5 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 6 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 7 | I do n't think I would actually want to be a producer , but I know I 'm capable of doing it if I chose to . ’ |
| 8 | ( iv ) " I could have if I chose to . " |
| 9 | From " If you want them , there are biscuits " it does not follow that if there are none , you do n't want any , and from " I could have if I chose to " it does not follow that if I did n't choose to do the thing , I was n't able to do it . |
| 10 | If I said to you , ‘ I saw a chair going down the road yesterday and … ’ you would interrupt and say , ‘ That belongs to Mr So-and-So , 316 Carphalute Quadrant North , Lesmahagow , AND his dog has the croup , and last year he lost his … ‘ ’ |
| 11 | If I said to my mother , ‘ I 'm longing for when he or she can do so-and-so , ’ she would say , ‘ Do n't wish the time away ! ’ |
| 12 | Says Rick , who lost the limb eight years ago : ‘ If I said to somebody : ‘ Put your hand where you think mine is ’ , they could actually feel it . ’ |
| 13 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 14 | What where are you I 've missed that actually the the quite interesting just to briefly ask you about th erm When we s when I saw you last time , you were telling me something about actually erm a bit about yourself how what kind of person actually saying , you know , personality , what kind of things Wh how would you actually describe yourself ? say if I said to you , Erm what kind of person are you ? |
| 15 | ‘ If I said to you , ’ replies Anya wearily , ‘ that I wanted you to stop what you were doing , stop everything , and drive miles and miles , into the back of beyond , just to be with me , you 'd have told me to piss off . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times , ’ his great-uncle was grumbling . |
| 17 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 18 | If I said to John and Joanne erm that I saw a boy running up the ginnel no you understand ? |
| 19 | If I said to you I missed Neighbours on Friday , what happened , a lot of you could tell me , could n't you ? |
| 20 | If I said to you the communication right these are the methods that this is what actually communication is . |
| 21 | And if I said to you those three elements of communication that makes up the hundred percent of it yes ? |
| 22 | If I said to you how would you divide that hundred percent up between those three what value would you put on your message . |
| 23 | See if I said to my mum and dad I 'm stopping at Hannah 's tonight she 'll say is Emma stopping with her and I 'll say yes . |
| 24 | If I said to you every time you pick up the phone it 's closer to ten pounds , would it get you very excited . |
| 25 | You know , if I said to Terry 's wife , Mrs , how much lead time do you need to set up your show ? |
| 26 | If I said to you , what 's erm what 's three quarters of twenty ? |
| 27 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 28 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 29 | If I wished to be cruel about the discussion this far , I would suggest that it has the evasive character of much comparative writing . |
| 30 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |