Example sentences of "[adj] if [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 2 | Th erm , the the other one that came up was erm , er and even Anne agreed that er , smoking if you must smoke is is for adults , not for children , now how do you erm , we 've we 've touched on advertising , is there anything else that might be done to dissuade children from smoking ? |
| 3 | Meanwhile , it 's not clear if they 'll get any compensation for their ordeal . |
| 4 | Is it the communication system that is n't quite working but the support is adequate if you can simply find it ? |
| 5 | If you call an Englishman British he would reply , ‘ British if you must , but English first . ’ |
| 6 | But we 're OK if they ca n't aim better than this . ’ |
| 7 | Something old IF YOU would like to wear a Victorian veil at your wedding , the Royal School of Needlework has 12 for hire . |
| 8 | Do n't get old if you can avoid it . |
| 9 | Maxim woke with a slightly tender head — those blasted lieutenants and their silly jokes — and the sombre feeling that he must be getting truly old if he could no longer sleep through a normal wakey-wakey in barracks . |
| 10 | QUADRAVERB GT plus Rolls MT80 MIDI pedal , free if you will give me just £330 for the patch lead . |
| 11 | Sometimes I get embarrassed if I ca n't do summat on my own . |
| 12 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 13 | He says it looks quite exciting if it can save alot of trees , make fuel accessible to people who are having difficulty finding enough fuel , then it should be good . |
| 14 | It is doubtful if we can talk about modern nations having a culture in the sense that we can say that there is a monolithic entity called American culture or British culture . |
| 15 | Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's extremely doubtful if I 'll ever find another comet , ’ declares Alcock . |
| 17 | Gabriel Gasbag — As thick as a proverbial brick , possesses hardly any intelligence ( it 's doubtful if she can even spell the word ) . |
| 18 | Just in time , out of consideration for Philippe Bonard 's feelings , she checked herself from saying ‘ the body ’ , although it was doubtful if he would have heard . |
| 19 | The boy 's dark eyes were on Wycliffe , doubtful if he would understand . |
| 20 | ( b ) That there is no satisfactory address for serving the summons either because he will not give an address , or it is doubtful if he will remain at the address long enough to accept service of the summons or is unable to furnish the name of anyone who would accept service on his behalf , e.g. social worker . |
| 21 | Given the consultations and enquiries that are now needed for relatively minor landscape changes , it is doubtful if it would have ever been achieved . |
| 22 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 23 | Pot plants and flowers that need regular watering will be watched carefully by the children if they are helped to do the watering , and they will be quick to tell us that the guinea pig 's water pot is empty if they can refill it themselves . |
| 24 | Choose a good hotel , even bordering on the luxurious if you can . |
| 25 | Results are only acceptable if they can be logically related to present-day trends . |
| 26 | no I do n't think we 'll have a pussy cat for the foreseeable future , not shut up , I say it 's different if they can go out , sharpen their claws on a bit of bark or , unless I end up with a goldfish |
| 27 | Be different if you can do that . |
| 28 | It 'd all be different if you could get a job . |
| 29 | So it would be rather interesting if we could have some sort of comparison . |
| 30 | It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to . |