Example sentences of "if they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mistake that the social Darwinists like Herbert Spencer made , and that popular opinion still makes about evolution , is the kind of mistake that aliens might make if they landed in a Safeway supermarket car park . |
| 2 | The patrol probably was n't looking for me — there were too many fugitives in Chinatown to concentrate on just one — but they 'd be more than willing to take me in if they tripped over me . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'd run over us with a steamroller if they felt like it . ’ |
| 4 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 5 | Students would sit around chatting , leave if they felt like it , and not come back if they found something better to do . |
| 6 | She and Edward would be alone on Grace , and they could batten down and stay in bed for twenty-four hours if they felt like it . |
| 7 | Well I told you what she said about her and Sandra you know and I wrote and said when they you know if they felt like coming for a day that 'll be alright I said but do n't be having anything to eat I 'll bring in sandwiches , I mean I , I know I 've said it 's very kind of Sandra to say , but you ca n't , they , way your relatives are coming and bringing sandwiches can ya ? |
| 8 | ‘ In giving the little I had ’ , says Baxter , ‘ I did not enquire whether they were good or bad if they asked for relief ; for the bad had souls and bodies that needed charity most . ’ |
| 9 | Well after that , if they asked for yo a pound of apples , you could get them the pound of apples and you 'd se sell a lot quicker . |
| 10 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 11 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 12 | ‘ Away with the atheists ’ , he cries out , not as if the words applied to Christians but as if they applied to pagans . |
| 13 | After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ . |
| 14 | Quite often we have to encourage our younger executives to take more risks because their natural reaction , particularly if they qualified as accountants , is to be conservative . ’ |
| 15 | Explained that I had no power to do this without your authority but would be glad to know Tolbukhin 's views and that if they coincided with mine I would ask you officially . |
| 16 | PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has warned his Communist Party colleagues that if they delayed in dealing with ‘ overdue changes , ’ they could suffer the same ‘ excesses ’ as their brothers in Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | If they came with references and , if so , were the references checked . |
| 18 | erm I think it 's also true to say that if they came on Sunday and turned into the church hall for coffee and tea , they can smoke in there . |
| 19 | I would go back to my attic and not be too hard on my characters if they came to pieces on their knees . |
| 20 | When the counts of La Marche and Périgueux paid homage to the duke of Aquitaine , it implied acceptance on their part that to injure the duke 's person or property would be a breach of faith , but little more ; if they came to his court or assisted him on campaigns , it was because they saw profit or pleasure in so doing . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
| 22 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 23 | All the same , I said , if they came across anyone fitting that description in their care , please would they tell George Burley his name and room number . |
| 24 | Whatever their basis in nefarious dealings , misunderstood intelligence , or dreams , noble things were being attempted , and if they came off the world would have cause to be grateful . |
| 25 | ‘ I think back to people like Allan Clarke , who were annoyed if they came off the pitch without scoring a goal . |
| 26 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 27 | When I was a small boy , almost all cattle and sheep sold in the market were either transported by rail to Milford Goods Station or , if they came from farms within a six-mile or so radius , were driven on the hoof early in the morning . |
| 28 | If they came from a garden centre , take the container off each root-ball , cut any long , coiled-round roots off level with the soil-ball , and plant without otherwise disturbing in a hole sufficiently deep to ensure that the surface of the soil-ball is level with or a little below that of the surrounding soil . |
| 29 | He spoke very shrewdly and at alarming speed , in a low voice that seemed to come from elsewhere ; though his lips might be moving in front of Arthur , the shafts of help would sound as if they came from the wings or the orchestra pit . |
| 30 | She knew that junior deacons in their second curacies , even if they came from distinguished clerical families , were not expected to make contributions uninvited when in the presence of very senior clergy . |