Example sentences of "if i know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 2 | as if I knew nothing about art . |
| 3 | He taunted me , asking me if I knew what was going to happen to me on my wedding night . |
| 4 | Since they had n't spotted me earlier , there was no embarrassment attached to my circuitous ramble and I hailed them with a tone of voice that sounded as if I knew what I was doing . |
| 5 | ‘ League is a fabulous game but I 've never liked it and if I knew what I know now , I would never have left Pontypool . |
| 6 | ‘ If I knew what had to arrive I would tell you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I knew what he wanted , I might be able to tell you . ’ |
| 8 | Barbara was confident that he would , it was just his sort of evening , but I was n't sure if I knew what John would enjoy any more . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd be able to contribute something if I knew what you were talking about . ’ |
| 10 | On the way to the station we heard a kerbstone musician playing the concertina , and Eliot , struck by the tune , asked me if I knew what it was . |
| 11 | if I knew what that fucking second word was |
| 12 | Oh yeah I would if I knew him and that but |
| 13 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 14 | The realist strategy involved comparing the description of the person with the subject him/herself or someone the subject was familiar with ; ‘ I also related a lot of the adjectives to whether they were like me ’ , ‘ … and rated the person as if I knew them personally . |
| 15 | I think he was frightened that I might unwittingly say too much — that if I knew everything , I 'd be more likely to guard my tongue ; be part of the conspiracy . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If I knew my future and that I would never be No 1 I think I 'd tell myself to forget it . |
| 17 | At least I think that if I knew my rugby , I would be in a good position to acknowledge that you know yours . |
| 18 | He used to visit the factory rather late in the afternoon and , if I knew he was coming , I would wait there for him under some pretext . |
| 19 | Look , if I knew who he was I might know where he was , OK ? ’ |
| 20 | Well if I knew who the hell Dawn 's brother was ! |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ she said , then she asked me if I knew anything about them . |
| 22 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 23 | And the cops standing there asking me if I knew anything and all the time it 's his gear they 're looking at . |
| 24 | And if Heather thought there was something sinister about her relationship with Jack Cornelius — assuming there was a relationship — why did she never ask me if I knew anything about it ? ’ |
| 25 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
| 26 | 2 S + V ( conditional tense ) + if + S + V ( past tense ) : I would write to him if I knew his address . |
| 27 | I 've been wondering if I knew you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I felt as if I knew you , and you knew me — almost from the beginning of time . |
| 29 | Unable to say , Because I felt as if I knew you , as if I 'd always known you ; because your face was as familiar to me as my own , she replied weakly , ‘ Sometimes a particular face stands out . |
| 30 | ‘ Depends — I mean , if I knew I had a team coming of course I 'd tell her . |