Example sentences of "and if i " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been many books written about improvisation and if I were asked to choose just one it would be Keith Johnston 's Impro which is straightforward , understandable , and theatrically aware . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |
| 3 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |
| 4 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 5 | I regularly get total signal failure and if I followed some of the compass courses displayed I would never be heard of again . |
| 6 | My eyes then focus directly between the top of the windscreen and the roof , and if I 'm at the front at traffic lights , I feel like Ayrton Senna would if you blindfolded him and put him on pole position . |
| 7 | ‘ And if I do n't get the chance tomorrow — well , I 'm no speechmaker like Brian , but all the very best , Jack . ’ |
| 8 | And if I 'm not mistaken that 's him outside now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And if I should chance to run over a cad . ’ |
| 10 | nicks things , and if I did that , the police would come and take me away . |
| 11 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 12 | There 's all this steam coming out , sort of billowing out onto the street , and if I stand in it , it feels real warm . |
| 13 | They ca n't feel me cos they do n't know I 'm there , and if I want to I can fly over their heads and leave them behind and live in the sky . |
| 14 | And if I got summat Annie wanted — you know , like a little necklace or a whistle or summat , I 'd just give it to her , and Mum would say what a polite boy I was , and Dad would smile at me , and we 'd all be happy . |
| 15 | She 's just an old woman living in the past , and if I never have another one this evening is going to be a good one . ’ |
| 16 | I felt that this was a very brief phase and if I did n't cash in on it now , I was n't going to get the chance again . |
| 17 | The snag is it could be almost anyone , and if I were Neneh Cherry or Stock , Aitken or Waterman , I do n't think I 'd be losing sleep over it . |
| 18 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |
| 19 | And if I had she 'd be wearing it . |
| 20 | I do n't , and if I did I should have to suppose Providence to be the devil … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ and if I had I would n't spend it on that . ’ |
| 22 | I kept waving to Mike but he took no notice , and if I hang about here Otley will only ask me to fetch him a slice of ox and then I shall be sick . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe the circumstances are n't as bad as I first supposed ; and if I do X , Y and Z it may be possible to redress the balance a bit and then I wo n't feel so upset . ’ |
| 24 | A lot of my clothes are holey , and if I had more money I definitely would dress quite differently . |
| 25 | My mother does n't cook very much food , and if I were to cook my own she would see that as greed and put a stop to it . |
| 26 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 27 | And if I fall into the pulse at the start of a piece of music it is a physical joy . |
| 28 | ‘ And if I had n't paid why would there be a receipt anyway , ’ protested Kylie quite logically . |
| 29 | ‘ Gentle , indeed ! ’ she said ‘ And if I were as gentle in the market as I have been for him at home , how does he think I would manage ? ’ |
| 30 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |