Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was |
| 2 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 3 | I would feel bad if I knew for certain that someone was going to cosh me with a lead pipe on January 15 of that year . |
| 4 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 5 | When I was sure he was alone , I followed him into the bank and while he queued I read a leaflet to see if I qualified for a home mortgage . |
| 6 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 7 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 8 | I know it 's risky — a lot more risky than if I waited for Yukio to finish programming the starpod — but I just need to get away for a while , by myself , and think . |
| 9 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 10 | So I mean if I , if I produced for instance si five or six masters and then people can go and do copies here and there that 's actually not a bad way of doing it . |
| 11 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 12 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 13 | With this , well erm I was er after the first two years when I did n't get a referred lead or recommendation cos I , I had this fear in my mind that if I asked for names , they 'd actually not give them and that they would actually then cancel the policy they 'd taken out with me , I actually thought that |
| 14 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |
| 15 | I would n't tell him if I went for lunch with my mother or a girl friend and I paid . |
| 16 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 17 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 18 | The truth is , I look upon both candidates in the same light , and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country if I voted for either . |
| 19 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 20 | Would it be alright if I stayed for the rest of the afternoon ? |
| 21 | Or again , considering ( 4 ) , there is no fixed length for turns in conversation , and sometimes one participant holds the floor for some time ; yet although we might call a turn of four minutes part of a conversation , we would consider conversation to have ceased if someone talked for an hour and a half . |
| 22 | That is true , but if somebody applied for planning permission tomorrow or a or a renewal of planning permission , it would be difficult if not impossible to refuse permission for those to be committed . |
| 23 | I 'd laugh if somebody asked for some , what are them lemon bonbons . |
| 24 | I ca n't bring myself to say she does n't care about her father , but she does n't act as if she cared for him very much . " |
| 25 | It also became clear why he 'd wanted to make love to her ; to make her believe he cared , because if she cared for him who better to persuade the colonel to tell his friends on the council to let the plans go through ? |
| 26 | Well if I 'm there and I 'm a guest if she cooked for her and Martin she ca n't just ignore me ! |
| 27 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 28 | She felt weak and seedy and if she went for a walk her ankles puffed up . |
| 29 | ‘ Planning ’ was judged to have taken place if the girl had known the man for at least six months before cohabitation and if she cohabited for positive reasons rather than because of outside pressures such as pregnancy or the need to escape from an unhappy home . |
| 30 | It would be in the nature of a test for her : if , as she claimed , she looked after her nephew as her own then she would not query the lack of financial support ; if she asked for it then it would be easier to force her to part with the boy . |