Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 If everyone played the same chess game , it would be stalemate .
2 If everyone had the same preferences as individual i , the same pre-tax income Y i , and the same perception of the tax required , then there would be no disagreement over the level of public spending .
3 Payment would be based on a pooled system : if everyone wanted the same coverage costs would be shared .
4 If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in .
5 Would you mind if I made a few housing enquiries for you ?
6 It 's going to cost you under thirty eight pounds , so I 've got a little bit of wei , leeway if I made a few mistakes .
7 . If I take the same example , waiver of premium , erm , and I 'm relating to knowledge that I will have got through the plan your future document , if I use Andrew again if I may , if I say to you , Andrew , erm , you explained earlier that erm , if you 're off work through ill-health , your employer will actually pay you for six months , and then it stops .
8 Well , actually , looking at the erm , premiums in the book , and it worked out that the total I was paying out in endowments , if I got the same level of cover under the protected savings plan , over twenty five years with living assurance , it was , it was only working about seven pound more , you know ,
9 I generally fish with a short hair for barbel , about ½ inch , but soon lengthen this if I get a few bites and do n't hit them .
10 If I get the same deal as I 'm getting now , I 'll stick with the Midland , ’ he said .
11 In the letter he said ‘ If I hear no more about him , I consider the horse mine . ’
12 I am beginning to wonder if I inhabit the same planet .
13 ‘ I thought if I planted a few seeds of jealousy in your mind it might just drive you into my arms that little bit sooner . ’
14 And erm we wo n't have time to go through all of these afterwards , but if I hand a few round to you , what I 'd like you to do is er just have a go and jot down some of the er solutions that you would provide .
15 Not if I know the same .
16 If I had a little money in a rich man 's world .
17 ‘ I was thinking of a smoke myself , ’ he said , his eyes fixed on the pouch , as if staring it down , ‘ if I had a few minutes in hand . ’
18 ‘ Please forgive me , Mrs Hatton , if I ask a few routine questions , ’ he said .
19 In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen .
20 That 's if I have the same doctor of course .
21 What could we point to if someone chose the latter continuation , to show that he was wrong ?
22 You 'd be black yourself , Stephen , if someone said the same thing about Kate . "
23 It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement .
24 She was at first incensed at the idea — as if she had no more to do than pack up guns , as if it were an easy matter to send such an object at all , as if she existed only for his convenience — and then amused .
25 Longing to scream at him to set her free , she reminded herself of her drama-school training , and instead forced herself to look as if she had no more feeling than a block of wood .
26 So you would need to look carefully at her stories and other writing , and see if she makes the same kind of mistake here .
27 Before she had time to move she felt his arms around her , scooping her bodily from the fountain as if she weighed no more than a feather .
28 She was lifted against his bare chest as if she weighed no more than a feather , the shock of his warm skin and the slight roughness of short , curling hair against her palms rendering her abruptly speechless .
29 If you use the latter box , it even has a yellow knob to lock the box in four wheel drive for reverse .
30 If you use the latter make sure they can not be got at by children , wild birds or pets .
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