Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was |
| 2 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 3 | ‘ Planning ’ was judged to have taken place if the girl had known the man for at least six months before cohabitation and if she cohabited for positive reasons rather than because of outside pressures such as pregnancy or the need to escape from an unhappy home . |
| 4 | Dewi , a former Tokyo bar girl , had faced up to 16 years in prison but could now avoid jail completely if she behaves for two years . |
| 5 | ( h ) Declaration of trust If you act for joint buyers , prepare now the declaration of trust mentioned on taking instructions ( p17 above ) . |
| 6 | In addition , if you subscribe for one year or more you can receive one of the books listed below — absolutely free . |
| 7 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 8 | This straightforward facility means that you can revise , or indeed build , your presentation at the last minute — particularly if you opt for on-screen presentations , rather than foils produced by colour plotters — yet still get professional results . |
| 9 | The complete programme has yet to be finalised but if you wish for more information please contact the Medau Office Epsom 29056 or send S.A.E. |
| 10 | If you stop for three months , I 'll give you £100 ’ — a lot of money in those days , 1948 — £1,000 now ? £2,500 ? — anyway . |
| 11 | On your your multi-purpose sander if you go for black pack of three , I think they 're about three ninety odd , that 's what they were se selling them to the er |
| 12 | if you go for one week it 's sixty eight pounds |
| 13 | I said to Angela , eh , I said , if you go for that job you ca n't stop in middle of ceremony and say I have to go out granddad . |
| 14 | If you go for conventional curtains , you have the choice of metal or plastic rails , tracks and poles . |
| 15 | It would be best if you looked for another business partner . ’ |
| 16 | I said , Oh yes , and if you think for one minute I 'm taking pathology forms to your room , I said , you must have had . |
| 17 | ‘ If you think for one moment I 'm going to wear another woman 's ring while you make love to me you 've got another think coming … ’ she choked . |
| 18 | By my rough calculations , the total amount of election-related television by the four terrestrial networks over the course of the month-long campaign comes to around 420 hours — 260 hours if you allow for non-poll material by subtracting 30 per cent of overall time from news bulletins and 60 per cent from breakfast shows . |
| 19 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 20 | Now normally , fixed returns we do use , you know like guaranteed income bonds , guaranteed er returns , but unfortunately , if you look at the Halifax list , or the er any building society list , their fixed-rate returns are very dodgy and they 're round about sort of er six and a half to seven percent at the most erm if you tie for three to four years , and they go up to about seven and a half , maybe a little bit more if you tie for five years . |
| 21 | If you leave for other reasons |
| 22 | The only drawback is the expense if you fish for long sessions and take enough meat to feed continuously . |
| 23 | cos er and if you say for all enquiries please call that . |
| 24 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 25 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 26 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 27 | So I had to come back and sort of say to Ray , you know , if we go for that bid it 's not likely to be supported , erm so we , what we 'd done is a different bid which still includes investors but it 's , it 's a bit broader than that . |
| 28 | What will happen to the original relationship if we control for this test factor ? |
| 29 | ‘ If we thought for one moment that the health of the public was at risk we 'd stop selling eggs . ’ |
| 30 | Throughout his career Chaplin took every care to sustain the idea that his life had been a kind of Victorian romance and perhaps if we allow for certain embellishments we can accept this interpretation as legitimate . |