Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I ca n't do it all , which of those things that I really need or want to do am I going to have to leave undone ? |
| 2 | She ca n't spend all day monitoring my blood sugar and giving me my thyroid medicine , and if I ca n't paint I shall go mad ! ’ |
| 3 | If I ca n't manage it in a quiet room , or a temporary study , I impose it on everyone at least for a short time . |
| 4 | For good measure , she added , a trifle pathetically , ‘ I am a good girl , really truly , even if I ca n't give you any references , and I will work hard , I promise . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm really not a great buyer — if I ca n't wear it and I ca n't eat it , then I 'm not that bothered . |
| 6 | ‘ If I ca n't marry you , at least I can help you . |
| 7 | And if I ca n't make her open up , how do you expect the doctor to do so ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If I ca n't make it , take Elinor . ’ |
| 9 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
| 10 | If I ca n't bring you in , then I 'm just going to have to make a citizen 's execution . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If I ca n't get her back to the sea , I 'll have to become a farmer , ’ he said . |
| 12 | He has told colleagues in the force in South Africa ( ‘ There are lots of cops who support me ’ ) that he is ready ‘ to lick your arse in Church Square on a Sunday , if I ca n't solve it in two days ’ — referring to the notorious unsolved murder of the antiapartheid activist , David Webster . |
| 13 | If I ca n't see her . |
| 14 | The fact that people will give money to save the otter , a nocturnal animal whose presence is detected even by full-time otter survey teams only by its tracks and droppings , is the best answer I know to that mean-spirited and illogical argument : ‘ What 's the use of saving it , if I ca n't see it ? ’ |
| 15 | He must know I worry if I ca n't see it . |
| 16 | Yeah , I know and he said she said my sister said if I ca n't afford it , she 'll pay but I 'll she said and I was so proud of Sam ! |
| 17 | ‘ So I 'm sorry if I ca n't help you . |
| 18 | Now , what is it you would like to do if I ca n't persuade you to keep an old man company ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 20 | And I 'll be proud of you even if I ca n't understand them ! |
| 21 | Yes , well if I ca n't find her , I will have to ring her up and say what hours is she doing here ? and I think that will be a way of finding out , but I 'm not coming before nine and if she 's not here at nine I will want to know why , what time she 's started . . |
| 22 | But if I ca n't find them , or anything else happens — I 'll phone home . |
| 23 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 24 | Er , if I ca n't find it right now , which |
| 25 | " I will love Topaz as long as my life lasts and , if I ca n't have her , I wo n't marry at all . |
| 26 | If I ca n't have her , he thought , I 'm damned if he shall , either . |
| 27 | A time will come when you will know that she is no longer saying to herself , ‘ If I ca n't have him , I do n't want anything ’ . |
| 28 | Her attitude was : ‘ If I ca n't have him no one else can . ’ |
| 29 | " If I ca n't have you , " she said aloud , for she often conversed with Timothy in that one sided manner , " then I wo n't have anyone . |
| 30 | So if I ca n't have you here , if you 're determined to leave Venice , then I 'm coming with you . |