Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everyone played the same chess game , it would be stalemate . |
| 2 | If everyone had the same preferences as individual i , the same pre-tax income Y i , and the same perception of the tax required , then there would be no disagreement over the level of public spending . |
| 3 | Payment would be based on a pooled system : if everyone wanted the same coverage costs would be shared . |
| 4 | . If I take the same example , waiver of premium , erm , and I 'm relating to knowledge that I will have got through the plan your future document , if I use Andrew again if I may , if I say to you , Andrew , erm , you explained earlier that erm , if you 're off work through ill-health , your employer will actually pay you for six months , and then it stops . |
| 5 | Well , actually , looking at the erm , premiums in the book , and it worked out that the total I was paying out in endowments , if I got the same level of cover under the protected savings plan , over twenty five years with living assurance , it was , it was only working about seven pound more , you know , |
| 6 | ‘ If I get the same deal as I 'm getting now , I 'll stick with the Midland , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I am beginning to wonder if I inhabit the same planet . |
| 8 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 9 | That 's if I have the same doctor of course . |
| 10 | What could we point to if someone chose the latter continuation , to show that he was wrong ? |
| 11 | You 'd be black yourself , Stephen , if someone said the same thing about Kate . " |
| 12 | It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement . |
| 13 | So you would need to look carefully at her stories and other writing , and see if she makes the same kind of mistake here . |
| 14 | If you use the latter box , it even has a yellow knob to lock the box in four wheel drive for reverse . |
| 15 | If you apply the same consequences to both children — say , time-out — not only are you relieved of being judge and jury but you encourage them to avoid fights by cooperating or settling differences peacefully . |
| 16 | And apart from that , if you project the same issue onto cars , for instance , not many of us will ever own a Ferrari Testarossa or an Aston Martin , but are n't they wonderful ! |
| 17 | It 's a good idea to keep that test data , because later on , you 're almost certainly going to make changes and you 'll therefore need to re-test the system , and a quick way to re-test the system is to put all that test data in again and see if you get the same answers . |
| 18 | A and this time this this just this time just raise it to the one third and see if you get the same answer , to check it is the cube root . |
| 19 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 20 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 21 | Just pause to think , and you will realize that if you show the same ad to five different people there is a very fair chance that you will get five different judgements on its quality . |
| 22 | If you take the latter point of view but you will also put your client 's character . |
| 23 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |
| 24 | So if you like the that pension plus the the widow 's or widower 's would equate to your pension . |
| 25 | So if you do the same thing with a D. |
| 26 | If you have the same urge for desert places — go now . |
| 27 | If you buy the same make of jeans as your favourite film-star , you can imagine that you , too , are rich , talented and good-looking . |
| 28 | If you want the same philosophy , stay in Britain and do your shopping for both cars in the same place , in Blackpool . |
| 29 | If you wear the same thing twice in the same situation you may give the impression that you have one safe set of clothes and that you are only immaculately turned out when relying on that one safe outfit . |
| 30 | But you would n't have any teeth if you stayed the same age . |