Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] if [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that anyone 's going to whip me if I do n't do it — but I know there 's going to be double the quantity tomorrow , so really I 'm just beating my own brow . |
| 2 | They threatened to kill me if I did n't tell them . |
| 3 | The first time he ever asked me if I knew where he could get ‘ coke ’ . |
| 4 | Pensively I roamed through a housing estate , stopped by a bearded man who asked me if I knew where Number Fifty was . |
| 5 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |
| 6 | ‘ It was Bernard , who had been watching me from his office and asked me if I had ever thought of a career in modelling . ’ |
| 7 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 8 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 9 | ‘ Pardon me if I write vehemently , ’ he apologized disingenuously to Poole in his second letter , adding with more than a hint of picturesque excess : |
| 10 | PARDON me if I do n't break down in tears at the plight of the parents who are having to take their children out of private schools because they can not afford the fees . |
| 11 | I stopped two stout middle-aged women carrying laden shopping-bags and asked them if they knew where I could find rooms to rent . |
| 12 | The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while . |
| 13 | Forgive me if I do n't care what he wrote in his Vico . ’ |
| 14 | Forgive me if I do n't burst into tears , but the great heights seem more than compensatory . ’ |
| 15 | Forgive me if I do n't ask how you feel , but I 'm just going to break every bone in your boyfriend 's body ! ’ |
| 16 | And I would suggest to you , it 's because it 's complicated , and forgive me if I have n't made it more simple , but that 's one reason incidentally , why in my document , I kept commissioning , the business of doing , and making the kind of hard choices that your committee 's had to make this morning , because resources will always be limited , separate from discussing everything that people would like to do , because they do n't always run together . |
| 17 | The second ( 2.5.4 ) may even surprise and delight you if you 've not seen it before . |
| 18 | Indeed , I would not desire you if you did not have a mind and a spirit . |
| 19 | They 'll catch you if you stay there . ’ |
| 20 | How do I know I can trust you if I do n't know what religion you are ? |
| 21 | More fool you if you did n't . |
| 22 | Keith will play with Amy but woe betide her if she does not hand him toys , her food etc . |
| 23 | Keith will play with Amy but woe betide her if she does not hand him toys , her food etc . |
| 24 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't need to get to know her if you do not wish to . |
| 26 | They said they had a knife and would attack him if he did n't hand over his own vehicle . |
| 27 | Do you know what if we come up tonight cos erm a woman came to the door , a woman came to the door this afternoon and she 's given us a Walkman with a microphone on it and we 've to tape all the conversations with it |
| 28 | You 'll never catch anything if you do n't do that . |
| 29 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 30 | The PR department endorses this : ‘ You can not develop a love of writing them if you have not loved reading them ’ ; the conventions of the form are internalized to such an extent by both authors and editors that they are no longer acknowledged as such ; they are simply assumed . |