Example sentences of "if [pron] can not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How an I going to take any wickets at all if I can not float my deceptively slow left-armers out of the darkness of the trees at seven o'clock on a late September evening ? |
| 2 | Charles 's following ( populus ) then swore " in its own language , the lingua romana " : " If Louis keeps the oath which he swears to his brother Charles , and my lord Charles for his part does not keep his , if I can not make him refrain [ from that action ] , then neither I nor any other whom I can make refrain will give him any aid against Louis " . |
| 3 | ‘ At least I have given you your past even if I can not give you your future . |
| 4 | I am sorry if I can not fulfil your request on this point . |
| 5 | And if I can not rid myself of it I will just have to go into the service and begin to root out the cause . |
| 6 | If I can not persuade her to keep you on , I promise I shall arrange matters for you in some other way . ’ |
| 7 | Amanda Piper , 24 , said daughter Cherie craves cigarettes so much that she screams if she can not have one . |
| 8 | Beginners would be well advised to keep off , but if you can not prevent yourself indulging ( and , of course , there is as much pleasure in the devising as in the unravelling ) read Chapter 17 of Dickson Carr 's The Hollow Man . |
| 9 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 10 | If you can not accommodate them , stop talking about or expecting cross-selling — it simply can not happen . |
| 11 | If you can not do them daily , try and make sure you do them every alternate day . |
| 12 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
| 13 | If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way . |
| 14 | " Then Frith said to El-ahrairah , " Prince Rabbit , if you can not control your people , I shall find ways to control them . |
| 15 | ‘ If you can not protect yourself then I must protect you . |
| 16 | If you can not tell them apart , would two fish of the same sex fight ? |
| 17 | It may mean some gentle but very straight talking , if your parent does not realise your need to have time alone with your friends , but if you can not bring yourself to establish this right , you will have precious little hope of organising any other social activities that will give you a break from daily routine . |
| 18 | Drink plenty of water ( bottled or filtered ) , herb teas , diluted fruit juices , and only one or two cups of ordinary tea or coffee a day if you can not give it up altogether . |
| 19 | How much it costs to replace him if you can not manage him and his career in an informed way ? |
| 20 | If you can not manage anything , you can always just enjoy a short break and plan a date and a strategy for the return to your exercise routine . |
| 21 | If you can not pay them immediately , then you must tell them so when they are instructed in order that they can decline to accept the instructions if they wish . |
| 22 | ‘ Now in her fifties , she found most of the clothes were completely unsuited to her personally and you do lose interest if you can not wear what you are producing , ’ Deborah commented . |
| 23 | If you can not leave your children with anyone , find someone else in the same position as yourself and take the babies with you . |
| 24 | If you can not make it on that night , come to one of our First Friday meetings . |
| 25 | Please make every effort to attend on 11 March — but if you can not make it — Please complete and return the appropriate slip . |
| 26 | If you can not go yourself , you can ask somebody else to go in your place and speak for you . |
| 27 | If you can not feel them , take other precautions , eg the sheath , and see your doctor as soon as possible . |
| 28 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 29 | In many cases this is due to great disappointment : if you can not enjoy yourself at Christmas when can you enjoy yourself ? |
| 30 | If you can not help yourself … . |