Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb mod] not find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's the gutter if I ca n't find a cheap hotel . |
| 2 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |
| 3 | If I could n't find a telephone in Sam 's big workshop I could drive Harry 's car to the nearest house … |
| 4 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 5 | " If you ca n't find a prahu in the next few weeks , we 'll tell you how to set about getting there the " modern " way via the inter-island ferry launches . |
| 6 | If you ca n't find a pleasing paper border , there are other alternatives : look amongst the fabric borders in soft furnishing departments . |
| 7 | If you ca n't , if you ca n't find a fraction that fits then we just say it 's irrational , so can you think of a , any examples ? |
| 8 | Yeah they 're all nice nice girls you know this is like the other week we was here playing the other team and one of the other team was swearing you know , and particularly you know the girls in , might have not they have the they used to play for Black Bear and you know the that lady that 's up there , she still swears and we stopped her from here used to f this , f that and f the other , we did , we stopped her said if you ca n't find a better word than that to use I should n't bother , you know As you know Shirl do n't like that . |
| 9 | If you think that 's easy , try running round the garden with a child on your shoulders and see how ungainly you become ( if you ca n't find a handy child , try a straw bale ) . |
| 10 | If you can not find a diary , buy a large notebook instead . |
| 11 | If you can not find a teacher , who is also an expert in your held , do not worry as any teacher will be able to give you the information that will be required to improve your particular activity . |
| 12 | If you can not find a good substitute , try using prepared ‘ sepia ’ watercolour , diluted with water , or use Mars brown dark pigment , which is easy to prepare with gum water for brush wash drawing . |
| 13 | If you can not find a Chinese brand , use a peanut oil from your local supermarket . |
| 14 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 15 | If you can not find a pulse , you must begin chest compression , also known as heart massage . |
| 16 | If you can not find an address of the local group , ask your local Citizens Advice Bureau , local library , or write to Age Concern England , Astral House , 1268 London Road , London SW16 4ER , Tel : ( 081 ) 679 8000 . |
| 17 | Established to tackle thorny problems , it was hardly surprising that , in the words of Lord Shawcross , ‘ if you could n't find a solution which commanded general support , then at least you 'd find a way which would enable the whole matter to be put on the back shelf . ’ |
| 18 | Are fishkeepers really so publicity hungry that they have to come up with quotations such as the Sun 's reported comment from Christine ‘ If we ca n't find a new home ’ ( for the Gourami ) ‘ we 'll just have to eat him . ’ |
| 19 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 20 | The FHSA may be forced to use school dentists or mobile surgeries if they can not find a practice to take new NHS patients . |
| 21 | For instance , if you add the switch ‘ /auto ’ to the device driver command line in CONFIG.SYS , it will not load if it ca n't find a server , which saves you some memory , and also means that you do n't have to repeatedly edit the config file . |
| 22 | If it ca n't find an exact match it will go the closest ; Litter or Lettuce , for example . |
| 23 | Crematogaster has become utterly dependent on its host plant — it dies if it can not find a tree of the correct type — but the relationship is by no means one-sided . |
| 24 | He 's going to see if he ca n't find an antique windsor chair . |
| 25 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |