Example sentences of "[noun pl] if they [verb] to " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | There would be an hour 's stop in Sudbury for everyone to stretch their legs if they wanted to , and dinner would be served as soon as the train started again . |
2 | On June 3 Soviet President Gorbachev , in the United States for a summit meeting with President Bush , warned Israel that he would consider suspending the issuing of exit permits for Soviet Jews if they continued to be settled in the occupied territories . |
3 | Not that , I 'm sure , India or Pakistan could n't put a mugging team in the next Olympics if they wanted to , but it was unusual . |
4 | So that just gives you some idea and it 's up to your parents if they want to . |
5 | You 've just hit on home improvement companies are legitimately go into all of our products if they want to . |
6 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
7 | In San Francisco McDonald 's used lie detectors when asking applicants if they belonged to a union . |
8 | And again , the Record Office is something that lay folk can just come in an look up books and ask questions if they wish to ? |
9 | And again , the Record Office is something that lay folk can just come in and look up books and ask questions if they wish to . |
10 | There 's only one thing , it might mean more part time jobs for college leavers and things if they go to work on a Sunday in the big stores and they did , give them a foot up to start a job , then get taken on you know as . |
11 | ‘ Effectively , ’ says Mr Randall , ‘ this means charities that are companies limited by guarantee will be able to avoid regulations if they wish to . |
12 | Some auctioneers will exchange items if they prove to be the wrong colour , design or size , but this is entirely at their discretion , and much will depend on the specific instructions they have received from the vendor . |
13 | I would go back to my attic and not be too hard on my characters if they came to pieces on their knees . |
14 | They want to feel that they are making a reasonable living , though they would n't be teachers if they wanted to be rich . |
15 | A government decree issued on Oct. 8 offered drug traffickers a guarantee that they would not be extradited to the United States to face drug charges if they surrendered to the authorities . |
16 | " Mouses can have games if they want to . " |
17 | I mean I may maybe decriminalization is part of that but I , as someone said why sho , why should n't people take er , drugs if they want to , they 're allowed to take other drugs ? |
18 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |
19 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
20 | We intend to allow school sixth forms to open their doors if they wish to older students , and to accept training credits or fees from them . |