Example sentences of "[noun] if i [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage , ’ Rowland confesses . |
| 2 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage . |
| 3 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 4 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 5 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 6 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 7 | As I understand it , you offer me a fraction of Lothian , and war if I do not accept ? ’ |
| 8 | She says ; I feel I would be failing in my duty as a hostess if I did not tell you everything in this house stops for tea . |
| 9 | I certainly agree that I would not be wholly confident of the conclusion about tunnelling if I did not know that rigorous calculations with the Schrödinger equation lead to the same conclusion . |
| 10 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 11 | Goethe once said : ‘ I would be able to commit all crimes in my life if I did not have the possibility to express them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ She threatened to take her life if I did not arrive . |
| 13 | Also , I am not a typist and I would never have written my first book if I did not know that Joyce was able and willing to decipher my handwriting , unsnarl my spelling and type the manuscript . |
| 14 | The Samaritans have threatened to call in the police if I do not stop pestering them with phone calls , and Alcoholics Anonymous refuse to come out for a drink and discuss my problem . |
| 15 | Can I sell the report if I decide not to buy ? |
| 16 | I would be failing in my duty to the school if I had not read it . ’ |
| 17 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 18 | I would not have told you place or time if I did not know that every man of them is far into the mountains and out of your reach long before this . |
| 19 | In fact , he was so eager to be off that he would have left it in the street if I had not insisted that he should take the coals to his mother . ’ |