Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 2 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
| 3 | Of course you can make appalling howlers if you set out for some reason to portray life in a social area unknown to you . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're a brave man if you go back for another of these things , ’ he adds , gesturing at a dodgy-looking sausage sandwich . |
| 5 | ‘ You can get a good view of the moonlight on the lake , if you go in for that sort of thing . |
| 6 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 7 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 8 | Roughly how many more steps does the boy have to take if they walk together for half a kilometre ? |
| 9 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
| 10 | If it does n't for any reason , you have to dub in new matching background sound . |
| 11 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |