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If I'd stayed, all that I'd have got was four punctured tires and one busted head.
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If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow
" If I had sat still, I'd probably still be measuring cosmic rays, the subject of my thesis at Princeton.
Among the forefathers of the new journalism movement, Thompson said in the February 15th, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone, " If I'd written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people — including me — would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today.
If my staff can relieve me and I can concentrate on directing, there are still a number of movies I'd like to make.
He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.
If I wasn't from Tottenham I think I'd have been an Everton fan as they're my second team if you like.
Said safety Rodney Harrison, " If I had to go through another year like that, I'd probably quit playing ".
In some cases, they is used even when both the number and gender of the subject are known, but the identity of the person is generic, e. g. " If some guy beat me up, I'd leave them.
If I was George Michael right about now, I'd be shitting myself ") or current events ( a 2000 issue remarked " The Government spent £ 850 million on the Millennium Bug, and the only thing that crashes is Q < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > out of the Bond films ").
He said " If it were legally possible, I'd say no more Muslims will get in here ", claiming that the influx of Muslims would threaten freedoms in the liberal Dutch society.
" Possibly the two most famous of all such anecdotes report that Lady Astor said to Churchill, " If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea ," to which he responded, " Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!
If I went on I'd have some things to say, not just about the bad jokes he's done about me, but bad jokes he does about everybody who can't fight back because they aren't there.
If and stayed
If we imagine looking at the Earth from space, we see that the whole Earth was pulled, but the near oceans more and the far oceans less ; the far oceans stayed behind since they are pulled less ( since they are farther away ).
If we suppose that Persephone stayed with Hades for four months and Demeter eight months, corresponding to eight months of growth and abundance to be followed by four months of no productivity, we see the parallel with the Mediterranean climate of ancient Greece.
If the shoreline was reasonably clear the canoe could be ' tracked ' or ' lined ', that is, the canoemen would pull the canoe on a rope while one man stayed onboard to keep it away from the shore.
If indeed the announcement had caused a loss of confidence in the company, SEC investigators reasoned, the stock would most likely have fallen down immediately and stayed down.
If the movie had stayed at ground level-had been a real story about real people-it might have been a lot better, and funnier.
If he picked them up later to addapt to the big screen, they stayed for the rest of his acting career.
During a live interview at the 2009 Denver SportAccord conference, Turner blamed the demise of the games on the short-sighted management of Time Warner, and stated that " If I'd have stayed there the Goodwill Games would not have been canceled.
If Reilly did visit Japan, presumably to be paid for his espionage, he could not have stayed very long, for by June 1904 Reilly appeared in Paris, France.
" If the Connecticut men would have stayed to defend York Island under the withering cannon fire and in the face of overwhelming force, they would have been annihilated.
If the girl's family had some property, the family ensured that it stayed within the family by turning the girl into ' son ' by dedicating her.
If they stayed, she warned, they could provoke a violent crackdown that could seriously set back the process of reform.
If the Nordiques had stayed in Quebec instead of moving to Denver, this would have been the franchise's new logo for the 95 / 96 season.
If he stayed in the Severn valley, Essex would be unable to get reinforcements or outside aid, the London elements of the army would demand to go home, and the one remaining significant Parliamentarian force would find itself pinned down, while Charles, with secure bases at Oxford and Bristol, would be able to starve them into surrender while other Royalist armies ran rampant through Britain.
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