Example sentences of "[noun] because if [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to put anything in my mouth because if I did n't , if I ate nothing , then I would soon go to join Mama . |
| 2 | And I think you 've got ta address my doubts because if I have doubts how am I going to stand in front of members and say hang on a minute , I can give you all of these answers , I can tell you what unison 's going to be like and this is what 's been decided , now come back to me and give me your fears , give me your doubts and I 'll go and take them on to represent you . |
| 3 | M. B. In those days , the police were almost like an élite force because if you joined , people would say : ‘ He 's joined the police . |
| 4 | He thinks she should go to Pakistan because if she does n't she 'll get her own way . |
| 5 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 6 | They wo n't Brenda because if they did I would be opening the window or door and telling them exactly their fortune . |
| 7 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 8 | It means that the world is a slightly is a slightly safer place because if you do n't do this , if you do n't flirt , then it wo n't happen . |
| 9 | I said , ‘ For God 's sake , Desmond , hire her a television , ’ but he said no because we 're not well off , not well off at all , and we 're having to keep her , she has n't offered a penny , not that we 'd accept of course , and anyway Desmond said there was n't any point because if we got her a television she 'd think of something else , want to play cards or something , and that would be worse — and he 's right , it would , because a game of bridge with her is like the cold war all over again . ’ |
| 10 | Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent . |
| 11 | Well , there again , yes , with reservations because if it comes to the fact that if it 's going to save human lives , yes . |
| 12 | it 's the wrong choice of words , but beat officers are in actual fact , a luxury at the moment because if you call the police |
| 13 | look at the money for a moment because if you look , when we come to look at the financial commentary , we will be going down the erm er what we spent our training budget on |
| 14 | You 're afraid to ask you landlord for a repair because if you do , are you setting yourself up for a rent increase ? |
| 15 | But it was a very responsible job because if you got an oven for your stuff and you burnt that boy there 's a lot of waste . |
| 16 | Some parents still give their kids a clip round the ear , some of em send the children to their room or whatever , but when the children are in care you ca n't do any of these things because if you lock the child in the room , if the child gets sent to the room , you 're accused of pindown when there 's a report done . |
| 17 | And we could n't You could n't just swim on the surface because if you let any part of your body above the water for any length of time , I mean it just burnt . |
| 18 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 19 | This can cause problems because if you do not pay tax then you will not be able to sign the Certificate on form R190(SD) and ACET would not be able to re-claim basic rate on the payment . |
| 20 | Employees are scared to enforce their rights because if they did they would be unfairly dismissed . |
| 21 | Yes , you 've got , you 've got to be a bit careful with broken skin because if you put things directly on it , they tend to irritate . |
| 22 | Now that was a big fright to people in them times because if you did n't live within |
| 23 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 24 | In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous ! |
| 25 | Foxes often avoid the colony sites of breeding seabirds because if they attempt a swift invasion to capture nestlings they are liable to find themselves the object of severe and painful dive-bombing by the parent gulls and their companions . |
| 26 | You know have you given have you been able to give business to these people because if you have that 'll help me I understand |
| 27 | that 's lovely James , that 's fine , OK , you 'd better put plastic spoons on or else you 'll make , be in trouble because if you floated a metal spoon , now what would happen to that ? |
| 28 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 29 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 30 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |