Example sentences of "if [pron] [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but you see he 'd have a list of the horse who 's gon na work or win races well if them animals did n't eat up he did n't work them . |
| 2 | I 'd do it if my teeth did n't hurt ! |
| 3 | As I represent 25% of the total population of women presidents to date , if my predecessors did not share my feelings a 25% opinion still deserves to be heard , and I believe that some of my successors may well be of the same mind as I am . |
| 4 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 5 | Young girls will steal make-up if their parents do n't give them the money for it … ‘ |
| 6 | Their two boys of three and five would be eating Jaffa cakes for breakfast , lunch and supper if their parents did n't insist that they eat up most of what is put in front of them . |
| 7 | Even now , many desert towns would be buried if their inhabitants did not transport the encroaching dunes bit by bit to the other side of their settlements . |
| 8 | Hankin 's acceptance of the post is a measure of football 's odd , continuing ability to attract managers who know the score is that if their teams do n't score they go . |
| 9 | But biogas programmes will only create new problems if their designers do not take into account local economic and social conditions ( New Scientist , vol 97 , p 377 ) . |
| 10 | In both circumstances the deaf minority have to struggle to participate in community life if their contributions do not sound like English and if their failure to understand the interlanguage interpretation is put down to their poor general knowledge or low mental ability . |
| 11 | German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher told the conference on Sept. 10 that Germany favoured the creation of a UN-style CSCE peace-keeping force with the power to intervene in countries suspected of violating human rights " even if their governments do not agree to this " . |
| 12 | PARENTS face a £500 fine if their children do not wear seatbelts in the car . |
| 13 | Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion . |
| 14 | After all , the content and potential benefits of such a product will be irrelevant if its users do not find the means of accessing it easy-to-use , powerful and compelling . |
| 15 | The study of society would be a chair-bound discipline indeed if its practitioners did not move about in society looking for ideas . |
| 16 | ‘ If you bastards do n't believe me , you can find yourselves another shithouse ! , |
| 17 | The individual is in difficulties if his aspirations do not match his capacities and skills but most people are sufficiently realistic and have sufficient self-knowledge to keep these attributes in line . |
| 18 | he knows that if his products do n't get there on time , his competitors ' will . |
| 19 | To help him pass a large , firm stool , make sure he 's able to push with both feet : put a small step in front of the loo if his feet do n't touch the floor . |
| 20 | Who else but Daly could be humble enough to offer to withdraw from the 1993 US Ryder Cup team if his team-mates do n't want him , and get fined for fast play , officials deciding he was in contempt by completing the second round of the TPD Championship in just over two hours . |
| 21 | He overrode his finance minister 's objections and at the crucial cabinet meeting threatened his own resignation if his ministers did not approve the plan . |
| 22 | If his pains do n't subside within a few weeks , he really ought to see the doctor . |
| 23 | I 'll have , have to do that later for you because you wo n't be doing it then , this lesson next year , and if your pots do n't go up in the kiln I will be glazing for you , so of course you see the colour and everything we do n't have the time to do that , it 's a shame , well actually they 'll look very smart just with the glaze on , but I 'll try and get that done for you , okay , can you put your hand up if there is |
| 24 | If your windows do not fit properly , you can lose a lot of heat . |
| 25 | If your players do n't latch on to such throwaways first time , too bad . |
| 26 | If your flats do not have this communal facility , however , where do you store all the week 's rubbish as it accumulates ? |
| 27 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 28 | In both Britain and the US we have the ability to produce all we need , but if our leaders do not have the political balls to plan Japan by their rules we are both destined for economic annihilation . |
| 29 | Even if our ministries do not take that form of living as radically as that , incarnation does challenge each of us to apply the message of Christ . |