Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is beyond the boundaries of his own home ground is an outside world composed of impersonal structures and processes over which he has no control , of if he does have some control , it is only by virtue of some formal authority vested in an office that he occupies . |
| 2 | There are n states of nature and he receives a return of if he takes action i and the state is j . |
| 3 | ‘ How about if he tries speaking English ? |
| 4 | ‘ What about if she does say no and sticks to it , finally ? ’ said Dionne . |
| 5 | what about if she lets us keep the walkman |
| 6 | what about if she lets us keep the walkman 's |
| 7 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 8 | You just carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 10 | Then we simply can not carry on our lives as if nothing has happened . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ The Tories have slashed the value of their houses — but still expect them to pay the council tax as if nothing has happened . |
| 12 | ‘ In some areas it is as if nothing has changed , and in other areas there are some quite bizarre decisions . ’ |
| 13 | He takes his hand off as if nothing has happened , waits for my answer and drives into the night on my bidding . |
| 14 | The couple act as if nothing has happened when Ferdinand agrees to stay . |
| 15 | Mr Major looks set to soldier on as if nothing has happened , trusting that the improvement in the economy will restore his own , and his party 's , sagging popularity . |
| 16 | Well they will be going through P as if everything goes |
| 17 | But all I can say is we people who see us I mean it 's not as if everybody has to have favours with their wedding , it 's still a fairly new thing . |
| 18 | It is that by studying the OS maps of Britain for long enough , one will inevitably discover some surprising , but nevertheless still chance , alignments — just as if one plays patience for long enough one will inevitably win . |
| 19 | There 's such sad unenthusiasm , on the other hand , about the way Stanford confuses personal doubt with the existence of mystery , as if one engenders the other , and , in doing so , must be assuaged by performance of some farcical rites . |
| 20 | ‘ And at times it has almost seemed as if everyone has had something to say about me , and it has often been those people who have never read The Satanic Verses who have had the most to say . |
| 21 | The phone rings , though , so it looks as if somebody pays the phone bills . |
| 22 | ‘ It sounds as if something has died . ’ |
| 23 | It seems as if there 's been more in recent months . |
| 24 | " It looks as if there 's been another murder on the moor . " |
| 25 | Strangely , as they soar ever upwards , the balloons take on a mushroom-shape as if there 's been a nuclear explosion beneath . |
| 26 | Each participant also behaves as if there exists only one presupposition pool shared by all participants in the discourse . |
| 27 | There are various other methods of effecting a de-merger , but the advantage of the statutory basis under s213 TA 1988 is that it treats the transaction as if there has been no distribution by the company and no liability to income tax or capital gains tax on the part of the recipient shareholders . |
| 28 | She romps around St Mungo 's shelter in City Road , N1 , as if she owns the place . |
| 29 | so it looks as if she saves half of her money and then spends a bit more than a quarter . |
| 30 | It 's as if she taps into something greater , and acts with no reservation . |