Example sentences of "[verb] and if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 2 | The menu is varied and if you choose to do so , you could make a full meal of it — for instance you could choose calamari , followed by Scottish salmon , followed by delicious fudge brownies . |
| 3 | You are the most ill-mannered , arrogant man it has ever been my misfortune to meet and if you think that I am going to obediently trot over there and start picking up that rubbish now … ’ |
| 4 | so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ? |
| 5 | Okay look what they say and if they 've got a diagram of . |
| 6 | ‘ You are a part of it , ’ he interrupted caustically , ‘ whether you like it or not , and at the moment you are the only friend Steve Cannock has and if you feel for him as you so often have claimed to you 'll be at his side when he needs you . ’ |
| 7 | And then there is underneath the sea bed , which has been very important for the United Kingdom because of the great oil and gas resources which we found and if you had had er more limited erm concepts of the |
| 8 | Identifying trainees is all about finding out who needs to be trained and what they need to know and if you remember one of ject objectives we had for the course is , was to , so that by the end of the course you will actually develop a system by identifying the trainees because this is sort of hit or miss . |
| 9 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 10 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 11 | and we were gon na get the police to ge w well i it just said the , the short name and we thought it was a boy that had written and if it had 've been we were gon na get the police because she 's under age you see . |
| 12 | That certainly is a very hopeful suggestion which we 're most interested in because it does look as if the P L C will succeed and if it does then we shall have our full seven million pounds . |
| 13 | Doing far more than we can reasonably do and if you like , doing it by very definition , badly , or worse than it could have done . |
| 14 | Some days though , it will matter and if it coincides with a very big match … |
| 15 | It 's also a fact of life that it hurts and if anybody says it does n't , I do n't believe them . |
| 16 | But it 's proposed to continue and if one looks at table N Y thirteen , tabled today , one sees that the residential land supply in and around Greater York up to two thousand and six , disregarding the new settlement , shows that out of a total of between eight thousand three hundred and eighty and eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dwellings , between three thousand eight hundred and ninety and four thousand one hundred and sixty , are destined for Ryedale . |
| 17 | All he seems to do is make sure that players do n't misbehave and if they do , he is there to reprimand them . |
| 18 | ’ If they have a party to go to , they 'll steal something to wear and if you ask them where all the new clothes are coming from , they just remind you how rich they are , ’ she adds . |
| 19 | v. We also need to increase the number of Medau classes being taught and if anyone thinks they might like an additional class or is already considering opening one and would like help to promote it , needs an introduction to pave the way with a new Institute , Leisure Centre or other official body or would just like to talk over the possibilities , please get in touch with me — I shall be delighted to hear from you . |
| 20 | that 's what they 're supposed to do , I mean and if they do break the rules they 've , they 've got to accept the consequences and it 's as simple as that |
| 21 | ‘ It was the first time I did n't have to worry what the other girls were gon na think , what anyone was gon na think and if I do n't like what happens I can cut it out … |
| 22 | The dog is commanded to sit and if he does n't do it the first time , he is pushed gently into position . |
| 23 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's right to hand him back to the government of the country to which he belongs in the expectation that he will be properly treated and if he has committed a war crime he would be tried accordingly , ’ Lord Aldington replied . |
| 25 | I like experimenting and if I led a less erratic lifestyle I would do more of it . |
| 26 | Flowers are very brittle once pressed and if you try to touch them with your fingers they will be completely ruined , no matter how careful you are . |
| 27 | That is the situation where the relief is most likely to be needed and if it excluded not much is left . |
| 28 | Thomas said that he was going and if she wished to remain behind , then that was up to her . |
| 29 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 30 | It does n't cost much to buy and if you wear it with humility you will find it is worth the Kingdom of Heaven ! |