Example sentences of "and if [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 2 | His reasoning , as ever practical , was that it was a chore having to empty the thing , and if one had a second , it would be unnecessary . |
| 3 | Cycling officers were asked what measures they used to reduce traffic speed and if they had a cycling programme . |
| 4 | Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . |
| 5 | If , in a time of reduced employment opportunities , unemployed people rather than more traditional seasonal workers are filling a share of seasonal jobs , and if they develop a pattern of working in this fashion , they could be penalised by these regulations ( see Hansard , 4/2/87 ) . |
| 6 | And if they hide a lot . |
| 7 | And if they go a goal ahead in Turkey , the home-team are going to kick hell out of them and hopefully side-line most of them until the New Year ( and god knows what the crowd will do — have you ever seen Midnight Express ? ) |
| 8 | ‘ It has n't cracked the shell , ’ said another , ‘ probably because people see the long list of issues covered and think , ‘ oh yes , and if they find a load of things that they say need addressing how much is it going to cost ? ’ |
| 9 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 10 | A county council has told its entire staff that they can no longer smoke in their offices , and if they want a cigarette they must have it in their own time . |
| 11 | And if they have a lot of money they probably do n't want to show it . |
| 12 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 13 | The problem in the doctors ' surgery , I mean you 've got people taking ill sick children round there with high temperatures and , and they do tend want to park close to the surgery , er and if they see a space they will obviously use it . |
| 14 | The new chairman upset visiting speakers by introducing them incorrectly ; he ‘ picked his nose and wore jumpers with holes and even wrote to a local newspaper saying that new members should be on s ; weeks probation , and if they missed a meeting they should be expelled ’ . |
| 15 | FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We are concerned about the image of the game and if we receive a complaint it will be thoroughly investigated to see if it should be brought before our disciplinary committee . ’ |
| 16 | Half the English and American ladies do n't realize until they 've seen it that it is linked to the Baron , and if we make a feature of that in the advance publicity we can suggest double bookings for consecutive nights . |
| 17 | So I 'll try and get something sorted before May , if not then we 'll go to the one in July , it 'll be red it should be red hot in July and it 's a really nice day and if we make a day of it , then we can take a picnic and you know it 's very so pleasant . |
| 18 | Springall belonged to the court faction in the city , and if we put a foot wrong , well … ’ |
| 19 | And if we put a little bit more effort into specifying requirements more tightly , then there 'd be less argument at the end of the day as to whether we 've done a good job or a bad job . |
| 20 | I 'm off Monday , Tuesday and if we get a doctor in , I 'll do the scopes I 'll be in on Thursday . |
| 21 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis . |
| 23 | I know not , it may be that Mr is saying this is something that that never it 's never I 've never understood it to be er part of my practice or part of any solicitors practice to offer such a and if we have a solicitor er who has constantly practised in his skills for a very lengthy period of time , that is saying oh yes it is because this , as far as I 'm concerned , standard advice which solicitors should give to clients transactions . |
| 24 | and if we have a chap who 's erm had bad experience on the plane what we would do now is is give him two free tickets . |
| 25 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 26 | Their rooms adjoined , and if she had a nightmare , he was first in to comfort her and laugh the fears away . |
| 27 | But she had character , and if she had a secret , I would say she could keep it . ’ |
| 28 | Cooking dinner , and if she got a what's-a-name , if they 'd got parties on , she used to stop there had to stop there till two . |
| 29 | And if she wants a train set then her granny will be the first to help her set it up . |
| 30 | And if she has a fight with another child , she always bites , there are things like that . |