Example sentences of "if [pron] actually [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 And perhaps , the little thought insisted , Feargal would not view her quite so badly if she actually did something that could n't be misinterpreted .
2 Jabbing violently forward , with no thought whatsoever of what she would do if she actually hit him , she did n't even notice where he was retreating until it was too late .
3 erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ?
4 That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right
5 We were getting on famously by half-way round the second circuit and Dod was digging in to a case of canned lager he 'd hidden under his stool , then Martin said would n't it be a good idea if we actually played something .
6 And if it actually recognized it .
7 If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’
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