Example sentences of "[adv] if they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if they had he would have been trying just a little harder and not preparing himself , as he was , for a long night of fornication . |
| 2 | He did n't fancy Lizzy 's chances much if they decided they all wanted a bit of the action . |
| 3 | It seems indeed that in Darwinian terms egoism can not be primary , in spite of the fact that genetic traits will survive only if they favour their carriers . |
| 4 | Only if they told us why we were being held , would we co-operate . |
| 5 | Only if they did not show their faces , only if they kept their heads low and lived in obscure corners , could they hope to pass at least in physical safety through life . |
| 6 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 7 | However strong the objective evidence that I do want X or Y , I can take these wants into account only if they pass my private test , if subjectively I do feel them . |
| 8 | Relationships and personal projects are valuable only if they realize something of value . |
| 9 | I much prefer that kind of viewpoint to the egalitarian doctrine which declares that all men are equal but only if they accept my point of view . |
| 10 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
| 11 | so it 's bad enough if they gather them in the gathering them in the barrel like , the barrel bit , but not the sort of |
| 12 | ‘ Leave that to the uniforms , they 'll let us know soon enough if they find something . |
| 13 | ‘ They will follow fast enough if they guess what we 're doing , ’ Marian said ; then she added ‘ … when they guess . ’ |
| 14 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 15 | So if they made me redundant or whatever I know all the ins and outs . |
| 16 | So if they kept your half day |
| 17 | Plus , of course , it means you 're gon na go back in that direction so if they say something like erm two chlorapropane active with you need to be able to get structural formula from that name . |
| 18 | Erm so if they do something with , with windows that makes them actually the , the open way they can break in is to break all the glass out , and the way you would do that is to fit a window lock . |
| 19 | Right so if they give you two s two lengths to fine a third length the easiest way and the most accurate way is use Pythagoras . |
| 20 | They 'd approve still less if they knew what it was about , thought Zen . |
| 21 | Other Slav peoples tended to look to her , especially if they shared her Orthodox religion . |
| 22 | In a major study of poor families in the inner city , it was discovered that a large majority of parents saw the teacher as a person of authority whose action they were prepared to back up , especially if they saw it as strict . |
| 23 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 24 | things that cause me blocking , bondage , fear , sin , shortcoming ( where I will sometimes need another 's help especially if they involve my past . |
| 25 | I mean if they especially if they want you to do in the , the championship 's , they , you got the league and then they play er , a knock out competition do n't they ? |
| 26 | If any of those letters were published , and especially if they printed his initials at the end , someone — Eleanor for instance — might recognize Gina and himself . |
| 27 | That can be very disappointing , especially if they leave it too long . |
| 28 | ( The Health and Safety Department would close the place down if they saw it ! ) |
| 29 | Spender ( 1982 ) argues that male teachers are more likely to regard work highly if they think it has been written by a boy , although her research methodology is not made explicit . |
| 30 | Not if they keep his licence . |