Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] if [pron] " in BNC.

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1 For both the person and the horse , someone will answer if they are there .
2 He arrived in a dark suit and a black shirt buttoned down over his dog collar and kept his hands folded so that nobody could see if he had on a ring at all , let alone one like a winegum .
3 I 've got a few shares in British Aerospace , but nobody would notice if I sold them all .
4 A beaming bonhomme , with the confiding smile of Harpo Marx , he produces a range of conjuring tricks and juggling , seemingly as surprised as us that they actually work , but so winning is his personality that nobody would worry if they did n't .
5 But nobody will complain if they get Austria or Scotland , and Spain would be preferred to Yugoslavia .
6 But nobody will complain if they get Austria or Scotland , and Spain would be preferred to Yugoslavia .
7 There 's a file of that , of course , but I make it up from my working diary , and nobody will know if I make some extracts from the diary . "
8 Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it .
9 Well nobody can see if you sit right in front of it , can they ?
10 None would suspect if she and I changed places , as it were — she wearing my apparel and having her hair dressed in like manner . ’
11 Thus it was that Ira Dilworth paid tribute and bade farewell to Emily Carr with the borrowed lines from Thomas Hardy , and I am certain that none would object if I borrow them as my tribute to both .
12 One may doubt if her influence on ‘ Missy of Argos ’ would have been altogether good .
13 One may doubt if it would ( 91 ; 92 , pp.174–5 ; 93 ) 2
14 Strictly one should specify if one is requiring the freehold or leasehold title , but in practice to tick both boxes seems to work ( unless the position is obvious , such as with a flat ) .
15 They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring .
16 Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability .
17 Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family .
18 Suppose that one set the pendulum in motion , waited long enough for transients to die away , and then attempted to predict ( on the basis of previous experience ) what one would observe if one looked at the pendulum .
19 Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area .
20 No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves .
21 It 's hard to decide what you can do if you do n't know how much money you can get , and it 's hard to decide what something will cost if you have n't a clear idea of what you want to do .
22 ‘ Remember , behind that mask of yours , no one can tell if you 're nervous . ’
23 Exactly actually on a on a point on body piercing for people who have n't had anything pierced and you should everybody should have if you go and have it done during the cold weather it 's better .
24 But no-one will mind if you choose to opt for another forty winks on your sunlounger .
25 ‘ Do you think anyone would notice if I crashed out here ?
26 Mark says that anyone can travel if they really want to .
27 I believe anyone can slim if they set their mind to it .
28 ‘ I can shoot ten under par here and anything can happen if we click together , ’ insisted Woosnam .
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