Example sentences of "[prep] if [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite calls of if Rentokil won , Rank would terminate the contract , Rentokil went on to a 7-O victory . |
| 2 | Well what about if England had won ? |
| 3 | I mean my dear , I said to Paul , Paul yesterday was was babbling on about if Karen would take him back and I said Paul I shall be extremely displeased if you ever leave this house to go back to Karen , you know o after only being with me for something like three or four weeks , I said you 'll never come back again I said I 'm not going to be messed about like that ! |
| 4 | ‘ What about if Angela Morgan was involved with another bloke and he found out ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It seems to me as if Madeleine is going to decide matters for you , ’ Alice said quietly . |
| 6 | Its not exactly as if Wimbledon are an English force — let alone European … |
| 7 | The tone of the interviewer was respectful , as if Bala Usman were an unquestioned authority on all matters concerning international relations . |
| 8 | Forced to face up to her own fears and failed expectations , it was as if Belinda had to deal with two babies : one was the theoretical idea of a baby with Down 's syndrome , the other was Sophie herself . |
| 9 | ‘ Looks as if Belinda has just realised she does n't have your undivided attention , ’ he commented , and Rachel gave a rueful smile . |
| 10 | It looked more and more as if Kattina was working for Nazi Intelligence . |
| 11 | It now looks as if SmithKline 's Mr Henry Wendt would be chairman of the new company while Beecham 's Mr Bob Bauman would manage day-to-day affairs as chief executive . |
| 12 | And so on , right to the very end : ‘ As each story [ the reviewer is now only talking about Mr Herriot ] grinds to its predictable punchline , it is as if Herriot has ground a slightly stronger dose of the Nembutal that he uses to dope recalcitrant patients into each successive page . |
| 13 | It is as if Lord Salisbury still decided who should lead the Conservative Party . |
| 14 | It is as if Dr Melvile , a psychologist , and Colin Johnson , a journalist , feel that they are springing a brilliantly new idea on us , which nobody has thought of before . |
| 15 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 16 | It was as if Ruth and Fand were once more alone in the little glade . |
| 17 | She had no idea how long they waited like that , with Mary O'Dell wiping the sweat from her face with a cool washcloth , speaking gently in her soft Irish singsong as if Ruth were a child , for by now her memories had blurred together ; faces swam into focus through waves of pain , then disappeared . |
| 18 | It was as if Ruth were truly Emma 's child and for some reason Rachaela had had to come down and witness this scene . |
| 19 | It is almost as if Lijn feels the need to replace a vacuum of powerful female imagery with real figures . |
| 20 | There was something almost personal in the attitude of the investigating officers , as if Jacob had been a friend or relative of theirs . |
| 21 | It was now dark and as he continued walking , he felt as if Nancy were following him , her shadow on the road , her last low cry in the wind . |
| 22 | When Laplace , late in the eighteenth century , applied his nebular hypothesis to the problem , deliberately dispensing with concepts of design , it could look as if Newton 's God had been made redundant . |
| 23 | A little later Alexander Pope described the city as ‘ very unpleasant … ‘ t is as if Wapping and Southwark were ten times bigger ’ , while Horace Walpole called it ‘ the dirtiest great shop I ever saw . |
| 24 | It 's not as if Pittston is heading for bankruptcy . |
| 25 | It looked as if Iraq , once again , could be muffing its chance . |
| 26 | It 's not as if Ivor 's a ten-year-old girl . |
| 27 | And it looks as if Ivor was planning to do a bunk . |
| 28 | ‘ And it looks as if Ivor had come to the same conclusion . |
| 29 | Unwisely Spain intrigued for an anti-British coalition as she intrigued for an anti-American coalition in 1898 ; as Wellington observed , Spain acted ‘ as if Europe were at her feet ’ . |
| 30 | as if Dorigo was WRONG to run into space with the ball . |