Example sentences of "if [noun pl] [vb past] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three incumbents , Neely , Ross Dykes , and Bruce Taylor , were joined by Glenn Turner , m Lance Cairns ( who also offered himself as coach if Lees did n't stand ) , and Bruce Morrison ( who dismissed Dexter and Parfitt in his only Test , in 1962–63 ) . |
| 2 | This reduction would have been even more severe if subsidies had n't been paid since 1968 and some of the innovations shown in Table 6.2 had n't been introduced . |
| 3 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 4 | If conditions did n't improve soon she 'd be in very real danger of getting stuck in the snow — as it was she could n't have said with any real certainty whether she was driving on the road or in a field . |
| 5 | And that hurt was slight , compared to what it might have been if things had n't happened the way they had tonight . |
| 6 | ‘ If things did n't carry on the way they have been , I would carry on enjoying my life . |
| 7 | Even if things did n't go to plan , we 'd still have a useful resort property … |
| 8 | If things did n't improve , then he would set about the central-heating system . |
| 9 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 10 | And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete . |
| 11 | The bank was hard , they said they would foreclose if things did n't improve shortly . |
| 12 | But if farmers did n't have enough problems a potato disease previously unseen in Britain has been found in Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | The pair say they could both have been killed if neighbours had n't woken them up . |
| 14 | if arrangements had n't been made for her to go to Australia might be , she has n't been may have you know , she still had n't been to the doctors |
| 15 | If Americans did n't stand up for Americans , why should Greeks stand up for … ? |
| 16 | I did it partly for aesthetic reasons ; partly to economize on the number of genes necessary ( if genes did n't exert mirror-image effects on the two sides of the tree , we 'd need separate genes for the left and the right sides ) ; and partly because I was hoping to evolve animal-like shapes , and most animal bodies are pretty symmetrical . |
| 17 | If children did n't pour out all their bad feelings in one go , they might be grumpy and irritable all the time . |
| 18 | Crosby confirmed that he had offered to stand down , if results did n't improve following last month 's televised defeat by Leicester . |
| 19 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 20 | Mr Healey said that Labour , always having had a majority of men , would have won every election since 1922 if women had n't been given the vote . |
| 21 | And they say the whole system would collapse if women did n't do housework . |
| 22 | Sir , — Election time does not have to be like this , and it would n't be if politicians did n't behave like cocks , strutting their stuff ! |