Example sentences of "[coord] if [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Some screws were more lenient than others and you learned when you saw who came round to wake you up how much you had to hurry — whether it was one who 'd put you on report if you were one minute late or if they would give you five minutes ' grace .
2 So he had the Sierra and he said I do n't know whether he 'll want it for , it could be sort of three or four weeks if they 're gon na repair his car or if we can get one within the company like at another depot obviously they 'll get that for him rather than hire one off you .
3 From — Post Natal Support Co-ordinator — If you feel you would like to offer support , or if you would like someone to support you , phone me on .
4 Jane Saren would seem to be the obvious person , but perhaps you would let me know whether you would like me to approach Jane to see if she is willing take this on , or if you would like it handled in some other way ?
5 Can you , if you can let , simply let me have those in at the end of the session or if you can give them to Eleanor at the end of the session .
6 It is n't invariable practice amongst conveyancers even to keep a third copy of a simple transfer for themselves ( but always keep one if it contains restrictions , or the grant or reservation of rights , etc , or if you will require one for your mortgagee 's solicitors ; normally one prepares top and carbon , both of which are sent to the seller 's conveyancers with a suggestion that the top copy , too , should be retained and used as the engrossment if its terms are approved .
7 Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase .
8 And if they can do it , so can you .
9 And if they can do it this afternoon or tomorrow morning ,
10 And if they can do it this afternoon or tomorrow morning ,
11 and if they can get somebody who has n't got any ties then they do that
12 Working-class artists are brought up with the traditional — at best , and if they can get it .
13 Always explain what you are doing , and if they can understand you , ask if it 's all right to do it .
14 and if they could do it time
15 Men of the king 's demesnes , as in Rodley in the Forest of Dean , were required to show by what warrant they exercised their rights of common and estovers of dead and dry wood in the forest , and if they could produce none they were required to pay for them .
16 And if we could get anything else on any of them we would . ’
17 Well you see we 're a bit further from home now and if we can do it for five days , great , we have n't
18 And if we can do it we need to be
19 If we accept the possibility — and sometimes , perhaps , the fact — within ourselves we are forearmed against unpleasant possibilities and if we can face it squarely we are likely to work more effectively with any child in question .
20 And if we can hold it , the foal will still be frightened of us , and we will have to give it a lot more handling than we would have had to initially to undo its instinctive fear of us and learn accept us instead .
21 And if we can shift one half of one per cent of the products from outside the area to within , that alone will be worth £2million to Darlington . ’
22 If so , and if we can measure it ( though it is not easy to do so ) , that again tells us something about their welfare .
23 One thing is for sure ; the tyres are thin , and if we can get them removed and new tyres fitted in Poland for a reasonable price , we will .
24 And if we can encourage them to do that er more effectively and more efficiently , then that 's all to the good .
25 In terms of safety we are constantly looking at it and if we can learn anything at all we 'll put whatever procedures we can in place .
26 The system for expressions of vague information built into human languages is of great subtlety and precision and if we can unravel its complexities , engineers will be only too happy to make computers vague .
27 It may be rejected or abused but it can not be devalued , and if she can bring herself to look ahead without bitterness it can still bear fruit in her own life .
28 So far not a word had been spoken and if she could manage it the girl would not even know tomorrow .
29 And if she could tell you her mind privately some while ago , do you suppose she can not make it very plain to us in public today ?
30 Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow .
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