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

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1 It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ?
2 Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you .
3 If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette .
4 Jasper wondered if the man in uniform had actually seen Chris on the roof of the car , had had a phone call from Kensington High Street that someone was on the roof of a car , or if he knew nothing except what that woman was telling him .
5 P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’
6 And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in .
7 And if they wanted him to be boring then that would be the performance that he would offer .
8 So we 're just adding the conductances again , and if we did it with three of , we had sort of three pipes
9 Two hundred and fifty five , and if we did it to he 's absolutely right , erm then this one should have given his bearing as two fifty three minus seventy , which comes to , what does that come to ?
10 and if we paid it before the end of January
11 And if she told them of her world , they , in turn , made her free in theirs .
12 The rest of his property he left to his girl Agnes and to their child , if it were born alive , and if it showed itself to be of a good , kind character .
13 There 's no question Quinn — and Cottee , Aldridge and the rest — are masters of the art and if I had one in my club , he 'd be the first name on the sheet .
14 Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched .
15 And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator .
16 Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place !
17 and if you got it through this gold card there was another five percent off so or something like that off .
18 And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo .
19 My old gran did n't bother with recipes and if anybody asked her for one she 'd say ‘ Oh , I do n't bother wi' them things .
20 But if they suspected you of double-crossing them , that could be a different story .
21 Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered .
22 Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area .
23 But if he tied himself to Miranda , he would have less influence over Annabel , who would then have legitimate reasons to doubt his objectivity .
24 GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it .
25 But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end .
26 If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money .
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