Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 2 | I must also apologize if I seemed to be trying to put you off them . |
| 3 | It should also help if you leave the paper to rest for a few minutes before stretching with gum strip . |
| 4 | She 'd done nothing but run from Dane from the very start ; even now , when she was here in Sheffield with him , she was still running , still afraid of the heartache she must surely face if she allowed the relationship to deepen . |
| 5 | ‘ And you must n't mind if I take mine standing up , and with a pinch of salt . |
| 6 | These can , however , only be paid for six years in arrears , so this concession may not help if you think about it too late . |
| 7 | Then there is the alarmingly bequiffed Brian Walden and his weakness for answering his own questions and his ‘ notorious ’ summaries — the tell-tale preface is ‘ Let's just see if I understand you . ’ |
| 8 | Let's just see if you like it ’ . ’ |
| 9 | McTaggart comments : ‘ It might perhaps suffice if we say that the relation between the living body and the mental state must not be mediated by intervention of any other living body . ’ |
| 10 | It 'll only work if we give in our hundred percent , it 'll only work if you give your hundred percent . |
| 11 | It 'll only work if we give in our hundred percent , it 'll only work if you give your hundred percent . |
| 12 | The principle must be whether it is right to use public money to reward something that has happened anyway or to encourage something that might not happen if we do not use that public money . |
| 13 | PS I told Nero you 'd meet him at Dover but I should leave your chariot behind he might not understand if you cut him in two , he 's funny that way . |
| 14 | ‘ They might not say if they did . |
| 15 | Do n't forget the same with , with take-aways as well , if the signs are the same you get a plus or you get an add , erm so that 's , I mean I can see this is the bit you 're not too happy with , but we 'll just see if it works . |
| 16 | In fact , I think I 'll just see if he needs any help unpacking … ok Wendy . |
| 17 | Well we 'll soon know if he snores |
| 18 | These two terminals should never be allowed to short across , which might easily occur if you carry a PP3 in your pocket along with some coins or other batteries . |
| 19 | And despite Robbie 's protest that his daughter might also scold if he brought home an unexpected extra guest , the Reverend Mr Taylor hustled them out of the church and towards the adjoining house . |
| 20 | As a member of the wealthy middle class , Darwin had a social position that he might well forfeit if he became identified with the supposedly atheistical concept of transmutation . |
| 21 | He demonstrates the kind of questions which practitioners might usefully ask if they use a ‘ research-minded ’ approach and supports his argument with more recent research . |
| 22 | I 'll quite understand if you do n't feel you can bring yourself to make love in such unsympathetic surroundings , but the bedroom 's a cut above this lot , I can assure you ; and if you were to close your eyes , and just think of me … ? ’ |
| 23 | Any or all of these factors may encourage you to seek to negotiate a settlement which entitles you to speedy payment of a lump sum and perhaps other benefits , even if the value of the total package is less than the amount that you might theoretically win if you sued and all went well . |
| 24 | We 'll never know if we do n't try it at Czerny 's tempo which also happens to be Beethoven 's for his Scherzo . |
| 25 | If it can not be audited , you 'll never know if it works . |
| 26 | There 's a lot of emphasis these days about individuals growing as individuals , but are you really saying that because women are obviously individuals they ought to be given the opportunity of growing in a way that they could only do if they had jobs ? |
| 27 | They regarded the occupation of land as the essential base of family and community life , but at the same time , they knew they could only survive if they had wage-earning employment as well . |
| 28 | As she had married him to get away from home , she could scarcely complain if he had . |
| 29 | The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred . |
| 30 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |