Example sentences of "[adj] if [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you would be interested if I take you through the Severn Tunnel . |
| 2 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 3 | It 's dangerous if you leave it on all night — you can start a fire and that if you ai n't careful . |
| 4 | Research would be impossible if we restricted ourselves to this species . |
| 5 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 6 | Sorry if I took you by surprise . |
| 7 | By the way , I 'm sorry if I dropped you in the soup just now . ’ |
| 8 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 9 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 10 | You 're lucky if you survive them at all . ’ |
| 11 | This is the Achilles ' heel of Abelard 's theory , because Christ 's death is only explicable if it saves us from a serious and dreadful predicament which is of eternal significance . |
| 12 | In ordinary politics , however , we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all , because it can conflict with these other ideals . |
| 13 | But the reds and browns are not sure if they want him on their side . |
| 14 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 15 | That does not render it inedible if you cook it within a few hours — or freeze it immediately . |
| 16 | Now you do n't have to rely on this , because you can ring through to head office in the evening , or you can ring through your branch while that 's open , and get a computer quote over the phone , but actually find it quite useful if somebody asks me to be able to give them an idea of how much it 's going to cost them . |
| 17 | You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday . |
| 18 | I do n't think they can be extremely confident if there basing it on a forty percent market share . |
| 19 | Ron Barton , who had had a word with his editor at his regular table at the Savoy Grill , had been told he could pay five thousand for an exclusive if he thought her to be worthwhile . |
| 20 | Funnily enough a sing a double wardrobe which is four foot wide and eighteen inches deep if you split it in half , as the old ones could be , you end up with two pieces two feet and they actually can go up the stairs cos you can just get them underneath . |
| 21 | Practice partner Jack Nicklaus also had an ignominious start , and even Norman himself had contemplated whether he might sue the Royal & Ancient if he injured himself in the dune grass . |
| 22 | When they are in their pyjamas , or dressing-gown if they wear nothing in bed , the electrodes are applied to their faces and heads . |
| 23 | He may have shown indifference with his remark that Christians need not be ashamed if they knew nothing of the number and properties of the elements . |
| 24 | She 's trying to sell the place ; she 'd make damn sure that those figures were available if she wanted them to be seen . |
| 25 | Levellers will perform in front of 70 , people during the tour , and already well over 50 , tickets have been snapped up , so get cracking if you want one for the Belfast gig . |
| 26 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 27 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 28 | I can be a lot more crude if you want me to . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It goes yellow if you keep it for too long and I do n't see how anyone can be expected to use fifty tablecloths even in a lifetime — not mucky-looking yellow ones . |
| 30 | He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met . |