Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " 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 | I can promise you , however , that if you walk around for three weeks with a chest pain , fearing a heart attack at the age of 43 , and you are told you have a hiatus hernia you feel a great relief . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're a brave man if you go back for another of these things , ’ he adds , gesturing at a dodgy-looking sausage sandwich . |
| 6 | ‘ You can get a good view of the moonlight on the lake , if you go in for that sort of thing . |
| 7 | If you work regularly for one agency you may want to have your position and experience reviewed from time to time , so that future work you undertake can be constructive and part of bona fide career development . |
| 8 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps if we win here for two more matches before the Test England would have more cause to worry . |
| 11 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 12 | Roughly how many more steps does the boy have to take if they walk together for half a kilometre ? |
| 13 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
| 14 | If it dries up for three or four days it 's st dries up for three or four days and Dennis has to stop the minute he picks it up it 's just blown away . |
| 15 | If it does n't for any reason , you have to dub in new matching background sound . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |