Example sentences of "[subord] if you [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Although if you decide to approach anyone outside your own organisation , you should take great care to preserve confidentiality and , if you are in any doubt as to your duties of confidentiality , you should seek appropriate legal advice . ) |
| 2 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 3 | cos if you go to do anything voluntary they look , look into it and then you 've got trouble with your dole money |
| 4 | I mean cos if you got to know someone they might be might be muggers , or you might get in , you know et to know somebody else and they might be a big crime organization . |
| 5 | Cos if you 've got anything heavy in the bag , the bike falls over . |
| 6 | Cos if you have to brush it wo n't break the quality . |
| 7 | I mean if if you 'd told you that dad was coming down which |
| 8 | I mean if if if you 've had your vehicle serviced and the sump plug has n't been put back in , then obviously you 've got a perfectly legitimate claim against the person that 's done the work . |
| 9 | ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’ |
| 10 | Because if you 've got your back garden flooded with foul water , you 're not really concerned about anything else other than the d than getting the blockage cleared . |
| 11 | Because if you start messing your duvet up at night times it means that you do n't want to sleep underneath it cos it goes all scrunchy and horrible , and all the duvet bit comes out of the cover . |
| 12 | You see because if you start doing it like that I mean , you could say th th the mathematical skills , you could say well he 's good on number , but his graph work is poor and you know , he di , you know , you can not you ca n't |
| 13 | I 'm not going to go into that , but what I 'm saying is we need to recognise this , because if you do recognise it , it makes life that much easier , does that . |
| 14 | It is important because if you do buy something from a shop and realize there 's something wrong with it , if you take it back the first thing the shop would say to you is can I see your receipt ? |
| 15 | A huge orange and black van with the full the name of the owner on it of course , because if you want to advertise something a removal van is one of the best things in the world for putting an advert on if you want people to see it that is . |
| 16 | So you know how to check whether the circulatory system is working because if it 's working you 'll be able to find a pulse pounding away , yes , that 's how you check it , you know the respiratory system 's working because if you want to check it what do you want to look for ? |
| 17 | Well yes you , you , you 've got two , one is you 've got erm the rural poor who will provide a labour force in the countryside for rich peasants and you 've , because you have got a labour market and because there are no limits on mobility , then presumably there will be some poor peasants who will decide no I 'll get out , I 'll industry 's going to get going , I will be able to earn more money in a town , or sons would go off and , and so , so there should be , you should provide a , have a supply of labour , whereas if you 've got everybody , if everybody had been in middle peasant status erm there would have been no incentive to do that because everybody would have been self sufficient within the countryside . |
| 18 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 20 | Now sir , can you tell me this , ’ and she looked him straight in the eyes , ‘ will it be just the same for him as if you had baptized him ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It looked as though if you 'd left them in a ring on their own , one of them would have had to drop down dead to end the fight . |
| 22 | for if you attempt to answer it and miss the point , the examiner may not be able to give you any marks , because you will not have answered his question . |
| 23 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |