Example sentences of "if [pron] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most things are played with conviction and have neat tunes , and if nothing here changes your life , it 's a decent record for a bastard hot sticky day . |
| 2 | But if we now recall the alternative definition of democracy as popular power , or popular sovereignty , then it becomes clear that it can not be a democratic act for the people to vote away their own power and their own rights ; any more than if I freely renounce my freedom I can remain free because the renunciation was a free act . |
| 3 | Okay now while you 're explaining is it all right if I just use your toilet ? |
| 4 | Mind if I just use your room ? |
| 5 | But if I just turn your attention to the figures that are postulated in the County Council 's N Y one , the tabulation in paragraph twenty on the last page , it 's attributed forty dwellings due in Hambledon , more or less . |
| 6 | Better if I just end your scenario right here and now . ’ |
| 7 | Erm if I just give your name to Liz she 'll , she 'll probably get in touch with your mum . |
| 8 | For example , if I normally doff my cap only to my superiors , but on an occasion doff my cap to an equal , then I can effectively communicate an ironic regard , with either a joking or a hostile intent ( the non-linguistic example is intended to draw attention to the great generality of the phenomenon ; for a study of a particular linguistic practice and the jokes thus made available , see the study of the openings of telephone calls by Schegloff ( 1979a ) ) . |
| 9 | The ex-Police multi-millionaire issues new 45 ‘ If I Ever Lose My Faith In You ’ in January , followed by an as yet untitled album in February . |
| 10 | I swore to my mother , when she was dying , that if I ever found my half-brother , I would do him all the harm I could . |
| 11 | Dad , if I still had my wee Claxton Annabel could go outside and play in it . |
| 12 | It seems to soothe him if I gently scratch his body for him . |
| 13 | That was that , for if I now refused my mother would see to it that I regretted my foolishness . |
| 14 | If I suddenly transfer my attention to an object or some aspect of the physical environment ( after all , inanimate things are much easier to deal with , are n't they — they do n't have emotions ) when you 're revealing thoughts and feelings , then once again I 've dodged your agenda . |
| 15 | At first , Sally was somewhat bewildered by my suggestion that her body was just trying to confirm her beliefs and that , if she honestly believed her body would maintain its weight , regardless of what she ate , then it would do so . |
| 16 | Dead Lucky was struggling to stay in touch , but he was still there nonetheless , and if she just pushed her way out , Damien could easily make a show of snatching up . |
| 17 | Every morning at Mass he sought her smiling eyes as if she alone understood his loneliness and felt for him . |
| 18 | The mother may feel that her role in the family is cook and food-giver : she may identify herself as a good mother and wife if she continually feeds her family . |
| 19 | Sooner or later , if she ever got her reason back , she would realise that her daughter had resigned from this German job six weeks before the accident , that she had n't breathed a word to her aunt or her friends about the possibility of her returning to Europe . |
| 20 | This meets with Denice 's approval , and she swears solemnly that if she ever has our child , it will be called Keifer or Julia . |
| 21 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 22 | Between Newbury and Reading a middle-aged man had pressed his knee against hers , and she had had to change compartments , doing her best to look unconcerned about it , as if she often heaved her suitcase down from the rack halfway between stations to try the view farther down the train . |
| 23 | It was then as if she hardly registered his arrival . |
| 24 | Lying back , sponging soapy breasts , Anna wondered if she really loved her husband , and if he really loved her . |
| 25 | While crossing the Old Bridge , she suddenly wondered if she still had her money in her breast purse . |
| 26 | If she put an ashtray in the wrong place , she 'd get beaten up ; if she never put his paper in the right place , she 'd get beaten up ; if he came in from work and his dinner was n't on the table , she 'd get beaten up . |
| 27 | He said if she then sold her house he said put the capital he said alright he said she with not buying a you know , another house now you know the fact is he said alright if she got one in her area or wherever . |
| 28 | If she then requires your help or whatever then that it has to go from there . |
| 29 | If you regularly perm your hair and find its condition is getting worse , it could be your hair is suffering the effect of those bleaching agents . |
| 30 | if you happen to get anything in your eye , right the , the thing I found was , if you just close your eye and then open it again , your contact lens would come up with your |