Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If everyone followed convention , no one would profit .
2 They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year .
3 Then he swishes his tail ; points his nose at the offending brush ; flattens his ears ; thrusts his head ; raises a warning back foot ; and finally , if nothing brings satisfaction , drives the person away in exasperation .
4 ‘ I 'll forgive you this time but I 'm warnin' yow , my gel , if I catch yow with that stuff agen I 'll cut all your hair off an' leave yer bald , and I 'll put this strap–across yer back ! ’
5 But as it is … if I make pastry , there 's usually pastry from one end of the house to the other , because the kids have got to have their little bits , and in the end you think , ‘ Oh was it worth it ? ’
6 If I make money I I 'll make you I can pay you as well , if I go up I mean if I go down , he said , I can go up or down as well , he said .
7 she asKed me if I wNted carrier bag it WAS onleeee toilet rRollsaa
8 However , in the meantime it was a daunting thought that if I took promotion I would have to give up the job in which I was most happy .
9 I 'm in balance if I remember Changi ; because there I was as near death as I possible could be , and if I can relate to that , what else can anybody do to me ?
10 If I became part of his fantasy landscape a certain amount of security , great pleasure even , was possible , at the cost of feeling split and unknowable afterwards and unsure whether I as I felt I really was had experienced anything .
11 I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme .
12 I mean , it 's not as if I owned property there .
13 It 's Mark fault though , if I kept hold of it !
14 They are warm and but it 's colour I do n't know whether I perhaps if I saw cream again this year I might buy it but erm I 'm not sure that I want to when this deep orangy colour .
15 they are warm , er , but its colour , I do n't know whether I perhaps I , if I saw cream again this year I might buy it , but erm , I 'm not sure that I want erm there 's this deep red , because I 've , I 've bought a red one in a different style , same sort of fabric , its very do you remember ? , when I bought that black and white checked skirt I bought a red
16 ‘ I would laugh if I saw pepper coming out of a fishtank . ’
17 But I was thinking if we you know , if I knew sort of what the sort of philosophy was behind it I might be able to incorporate that into , the office meetings and say we were having team briefings .
18 When all I could reply were the two forlorn words , ‘ No English , ’ he asked me if I knew French .
19 If I take Folly here through to get undressed , you could go in and get the others warmed up . ’
20 If I take penny there then , that will all make forty pence , okay ?
21 ‘ And you must n't mind if I take mine standing up , and with a pinch of salt .
22 Now what I 've got to put a diagnosis on this , so if I write depression cos that has been the problem has n't it ?
23 ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’
24 If we erm I 'll get a if I got time today .
25 I du n no if I got lOp , but I pull out my change anyhow .
26 Oh , well we 'll see if I get chance later on I 'll phone , alright ? oh that can wait .
27 If I get word to British Naval Intelligence , they 'll see you 're escorted safely back to England . ’
28 So erm I 'm just hoping I 'm not gon na get an infection in it cos infection in it if I get blood in me eye .
29 ‘ That 's if I get beat . ’
30 Erm yes , job and I thought if I get steel wool
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