Example sentences of "if we [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can leave it on the stove or take if off , and either way it wo n't be the same as it would be if we ate it now . ’ |
| 2 | Not even if we squashed it into the cassette case . |
| 3 | I tell you what if we had every company that sent their two parcels a week , if we carried them all we 'd be doing well would n't we ? |
| 4 | Research would be impossible if we restricted ourselves to this species . |
| 5 | But I think the analogy begins to break down and I 'll go on to erm straight forward thinking in Richmondshire erm where we would n't recognize an elephant if we saw one . |
| 6 | He moved as easily ; and like Chance Wayne at the height of his beauty you , or I , would just , well , would just have died for him , stopped in our tracks for him , stopped the car for him , fallen silent if we saw him cross the street or across a crowded bar . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 8 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 9 | Our existence would lack even an Adamic fig leaf of meaning if we ignored our capacity to glide over our past , coalescing and juxtaposing our memories , irrespective of their temporal spatial or circumstantial labels . |
| 10 | If we ignored it others would simply follow suit . ’ |
| 11 | I am not sure if we rewound it or what . |
| 12 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
| 13 | We can imagine that , if we believed what the Calvinists believed , we would have behaved in the same way . |
| 14 | If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims , we would discourage people from buying timber-frame . |
| 15 | ‘ If we brought you to where you could see the Zikr , could you pick him out for us ? ’ |
| 16 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
| 17 | Where he got the drink was a mystery , and if we asked him , he would only laugh . |
| 18 | And he — that is , he and Goibniu , thought that if we asked you — well , consulted you — you might provide a spell to get her free , ’ said Caspar . |
| 19 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 20 | If we sold our lands to the Government , this is the way they were bought . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it would be safer if we continued our conversation in the trench . |
| 22 | Now if we had we could do this with all nine planets . |
| 23 | If we had somebody to play alongside Gallacher who could pop one in regularly we would not be in our position . |
| 24 | How about if we had one shared out between three people have a guess at what it would look like the fraction . |
| 25 | answered and deep enough for a boat if we had one . |
| 26 | Be nice if we had one . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm half inclined to pursue her tomorrow ; perhaps if we had her we would have a few more answers to all this . |
| 28 | The ‘ heroic lays , which the Beowulf -poet knew and alluded to sound very fine from his allusions , but if we had them we might discover that the fascination came from his art , not theirs . |
| 29 | I know if we had them it would be so wicked . |
| 30 | ‘ If we had him with us , who 'd attack us ? ’ said Twoflower . |