Example sentences of "and if [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are infrared-sensing security lights on the wall of the house and if they go on then the whole thing 's off ; I 'm up and over the wall and back into the woods and away . |
| 2 | As the new President of the Board of Education , R. A. Butler , put it , in delightful contrast to his officials ' rather ponderous concern , ‘ Children are human and if they run about too much do n't put on weight . |
| 3 | Or it may arise because we are pursuing a particular path and if we went back upstream we could avoid the problem instead of trying to solve it . |
| 4 | The picture quality of the system is said to be better than VHS and if it catches on then in future all CD machines may be build with decoders already inside , making the CD the most versatile medium for home entertainment . |
| 5 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to get the truth out of my wife , and if I find out there 's anything going on between you I 'll be back here to use you as a punchbag ! |
| 7 | I kept waving to Mike but he took no notice , and if I hang about here Otley will only ask me to fetch him a slice of ox and then I shall be sick . |
| 8 | Cos Dave 's been out the country like ehm , well it 's just under ten years , and if he stays out longer than ten years he loose , he loose his citizenship . |
| 9 | Without Batty , Leeds have lost six of their last eight matches , and if he comes through tomorrow 's reserve team clash with Newcastle , he can expect a recall at Blackburn on Saturday . |
| 10 | Lee sensed that Meryl was unhappy with their subject of conversation , and if he charged on blindly , she would go and join someone else . |
| 11 | Played softly it sounds clear and well-balanced , and if you dig in really hard then it shifts up a gear and becomes well funky . |
| 12 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 13 | And when and if you come back up , what then ? ’ |
| 14 | It takes about five minutes to set it up before you retire to bed , and if you come back downstairs for something you have to cancel it and start all over again . |
| 15 | They call you Paki , things like that , and if you answer back then you are really in serious trouble . |
| 16 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 17 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 18 | Everyone likes fun and pretty things , but — having too many frocks must be almost as bad as having too few , and if you go out somewhere every day , and razzle every night , you would get stale . |
| 19 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 20 | and if you wander off too far from the structure |