Example sentences of "[adv] if i [vb mod] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're at pains to stress this is n't a protest , but we were here for rest and recreation , ’ he said , ‘ so if I ca n't send my men ashore ; there 's not much point in staying . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't want to be ‘ kept ’ by him , so if I ca n't afford to go out we just stay in and read together or just watch television . |
| 3 | So if I ca n't eat , I wo n't talk . ’ |
| 4 | So if I ca n't have you here , if you 're determined to leave Venice , then I 'm coming with you . |
| 5 | She said , Listen I 'm giving a little bit Peggy because , she said , I could n't go away if I could n't come to you . |
| 6 | One 's mind is occupied so much when one is young , but I wonder now if I could not have thought more about Beatrice . |
| 7 | Well if I ca n't have a bit of this chocolate , I 'm going home . |
| 8 | cos you think well if I ca n't see any of the cars behind it then they ca n't see me either . |
| 9 | Yes , well if I ca n't find her , I will have to ring her up and say what hours is she doing here ? and I think that will be a way of finding out , but I 'm not coming before nine and if she 's not here at nine I will want to know why , what time she 's started . . |
| 10 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 11 | Well I would like to hope that he would take notice of my letter even if I would n't get any support from British Press . |
| 12 | For example — and just , as they say , off the top of my own head — I can imagine , even if I ca n't paint , these prototypically Magrittian images : a revolver that fires doves ; a two-humped animal with heads at each end ( a palindromedary , perhaps ) a painting of the Crucifixion that is itself ( the painting I mean ) nailed to a Cross ; an unearthly skyscape in which the four Presidents ' heads from Mount Rushmore emerge out of a billowing bank of clouds . |
| 13 | And I 'll be proud of you even if I ca n't understand them ! |
| 14 | For good measure , she added , a trifle pathetically , ‘ I am a good girl , really truly , even if I ca n't give you any references , and I will work hard , I promise . ’ |
| 15 | And I am pleased , though unsurprised , that my programming remains effective , even if I ca n't get right in there to nurse it along . |
| 16 | Certain sure he 'd have stopped you from going , even if I ca n't . ’ |
| 17 | and even if I ca n't take it up on the day , I could probably take it up the night before . |
| 18 | But this time I knew I could use it , even if I could n't think exactly how . |
| 19 | Mind , when I give 'im the wallet and 'e looked inside it , 'e was a mite more pleasant , even if I could n't see nothing but 'is mince pies and 'is 'ooter . |
| 20 | ‘ At least I have given you your past even if I can not give you your future . |
| 21 | I would n't be where I am today if I could n't hold my own in a dog-eat-dog world . |
| 22 | Yeah and then if I ca n't |
| 23 | The soldier , seeing my uninteresting-looking machine , asked me again if I would not prefer to choose a new one , but I refused . |
| 24 | So I promised I 'd never hit anyone again if I need n't go back to Dr Pseud , and they said yes . |