Example sentences of "if they do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the families in the little awkward places , at the heads of the small glens , on boggy ground that would not drain — they were nearly helpless , they trembled on the threshold of destitution , impaled on the horn of the one-year lease , uncertain whether it was worth going into debt to improve the ground and knowing that , even if they did , they could still be turned out next term day and their place annexed to the holding of a better-off neighbour . |
| 2 | If they did , did she want to be part of one ? |
| 3 | I wanted their approval , even if they did smell so terrible , the reek of their hair in its stiff , bright tufts mixing with the fumes of alcohol . |
| 4 | If they did , however , then Stefan Edberg , the world 's leading tennis player , would surely be a candidate for opening batsman for the test team . |
| 5 | In fact , most owners would be horrified if they did . |
| 6 | Mr Straw said this involved ‘ veiled threats if they did not cough up and clear promises of honours if they did ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Straw said this involved ‘ veiled threats if they did not cough up and clear promises of honours if they did ’ . |
| 8 | He argued there were provisions in the Single European Act which ensured that member states could not be obliged to accept abortion services if they did not wish to have them . |
| 9 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 10 | If they did , would the silvery dust mean anything to them ? |
| 11 | While there was certainly an increase in the output of these businesses in the prosperous years of the late 1970s it is doubtful if they did more than keep pace with the fast growth rate for the manufacturing sector as a whole , estimated by the World Bank to be 12 per cent from 1970 to 1982 . |
| 12 | They were n't sure if they would find Rose there at all or what way they would find her if they did . |
| 13 | The company 's response was to issue notice to the original 40 that if they did n't return to work they 'd all be sacked . |
| 14 | Not all could , or would , do this but , even if they did , the problem that patients might choose the type of food because of habit rather than careful deliberation still exists . |
| 15 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 16 | If they did n't , it would be dropped . |
| 17 | ( If they did n't , Mr Edward Heath would be a much happier man . ) |
| 18 | He told a Westminster press gallery lunch that the problem was not the properly prepared Queen 's Speech programme of bills , but the demand for instant legislation following a serious event , with ministers being deemed failures if they did not promise a new bill . |
| 19 | ( If they did n't , Mr Edward Heath would be a much happier man . ) |
| 20 | If they did n't interfere in politics , they would be thought craven . |
| 21 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 22 | But , really , if they did n't understand what was meant by ‘ depose ’ , they deserve all the trouble they got . |
| 23 | If they did so in a consistent way , that would be fine . |
| 24 | Even if they did not speculate , many could raise warrant bonds at yields of 3–5% and put the money in bank deposits at higher rates . |
| 25 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 26 | In England even when Botham was working one of his miracles people at work did not stop ; if they did not have a radio they just rang the Test score , on the works phone of course , a bit more frequently . |
| 27 | He 'd pull it down if they did . |
| 28 | If they did n't leave the shed door properly shut , Mrs Wright would know someone had been in . |
| 29 | From now on the locals would do what they were told to do by Detroit , and if they did n't like it they could take the option of either getting out of their own free will , or being booted out . |
| 30 | On the other hand , he thought , if they did see them , most of the girls were too tactful to say anything . |