Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge padlock seemed oddly out of place for anyone could have broken in if they had wished . |
| 2 | In case of doubt the court has to guess what meaning Parliament would have picked on if it had thought of the point . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , of course we 'd have carried on if we 'd been able to make a living at it . |
| 4 | The turn can be speeded up if you take a step back on the board and depress the windward rail . |
| 5 | Students would sit around chatting , leave if they felt like it , and not come back if they found something better to do . |
| 6 | S 239(3) , ICTA 1988 states that surplus ACT can only be carried back if it arises in a corporation tax accounting period . |
| 7 | This is a paradoxical fact for those empiricists who think that new theories are derived from the facts in some way , but it is quite comprehensible when it is realized that precise experimentation can only be carried out if one has a precise theory capable of yielding predictions in the form of precise observation statements . |
| 8 | He moved on up the street , or would have moved on if he had been able to . |
| 9 | However , for the reason stated above , the television could be turned on if someone broke a glass or even whistled sharply ! |
| 10 | I 'll never be grown up if I keep forgetting things . |
| 11 | The taxi driver would n't have turned up if he had n't read about you in the paper . |
| 12 | The Reverend Foster 's beady eyes fixed on the children fumbling for their donations as if they were a parcel of juicy worms to be swooped on if they tried to wriggle away . |
| 13 | Discounting the capital cost of buying a group share , which can often rise in value and can in any case be easily sold on if you wish to leave the group , rates of £35 per flying hour on a Cessna 150 are fairly commonplace . |
| 14 | Sir Alfred had spent enough of Rubery Owen 's profits and was impatient for success ; BRM would be closed down if it failed to win races in 1962 . |
| 15 | I would n't have opened up if I 'd known ; they 're a thieving bunch and they usually work in pairs . |
| 16 | Yet the DSS was paying for the place and she could have shopped around if she had been provided with the help to do this . |
| 17 | It was not the sort of place you would choose to be born in if you had such a choice , but Kylie Ann Minogue was born there anyway . |
| 18 | I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up . |
| 19 | This analysis of the differentiation of legal systems is also borne out if we take a comparative perspective . |
| 20 | But she 'd let him have a slice of the cake she 'd brought in if he gave her and her friend fruit or ice cream — whatever he 'd bought . |
| 21 | You can break it but the thing is that I warned her , er , you know , as long as they get through to her hold on that that 's very nicely set up if she twiddles her |
| 22 | So , you know , there 's no point in having all these systems set up if you have n't got the support at the branch level for it . |
| 23 | Committees of enquiry can be set up ad hoc to look into particular matters , but a government can always prevent one being set up if it fears that the results may be embarrassing , since a majority of the Assemblée must vote for their creation . |
| 24 | Nobody asked the Public Service official anything , and Yggdrasil would have spoken up if it had any strong objections . |
| 25 | this is the book he was talking about that 's been brought back if anyone wants it . |
| 26 | this one 's been brought back if anyone wanted |
| 27 | We received … 300 ammo later but never found out if it worked as we did not fire the rifles , even on a range . |
| 28 | He would never have found out if you had n't shown up in the office . |
| 29 | It would be brought round if he waited , but he liked to have things as soon as they came . |
| 30 | They have good days and bad days : days when things seem relatively easy , they are on the ball , and a lot gets done , and days when they just ca n't face it and phone in sick — only to feel much perkier half-an-hour after putting down the phone , and a little guilty that ‘ I could have gone in if I 'd really had to ’ . |