Example sentences of "[conj] if i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | You do me great honor in proposing me as your President , & if I did not feel that my acceptance of this favour would tend much to defeat the laudable object of your pursuit I should most certainly gratify my own ambition , & have the pleasure to preside at your meetings . |
2 | It really does n't matter if I 'm a nice guy or not , or if I wrote an awful book . |
3 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
4 | You know when I , when I go to lift something , or if I use |
5 | In a case like this it is often a matter of assessing quickly ‘ Am I sure that I can reach the field , or if I get more sink will I fail to get there ? ’ |
6 | Or if I 'd seen it , I had n't taken it in . |
7 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
8 | If I stay in my apartment , or if I go home to my house , I am lonely . |
9 | Or if I go abroad before then will you marry me on my embarkation leave ? ’ |
10 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |
11 | Or if I had been poor and friendless , with no hope of riches or success ? ’ |
12 | I think if I 'd had er no teeth I would n't have been able to manage at all , or if I had |
13 | They went to get a bucket of water or if I said , Ooh you 're not looking |
14 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
15 | If I did it and it did n't come out as good as I thought , or if I failed , then I 'll deal with that , but until I take that chance I 'll never know . |
16 | The only time I 'll drink water is owt like this or if I 've one of them Mister Softee cornets . |
17 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
18 | If I want another book instead of the Editor 's Choice ( or if I want no book at all ) , I can say so on the form provided . |
19 | It 's useful if people feel ill during services or if I want to rest before midnight Mass . |
20 | It is at this point that I do n't know if I can help , or if I have somehow wounded him too badly . |
21 | I lay there with absolutely no idea what I would be doing the following day or if I stood any chance of being selected by the Legion . |
22 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
23 | Or if I wanted a child , that might change my attitude . |
24 | Good do n't forget if I go too quickly or if I give you too much say , Ooh hang on . |
25 | I nearly fell over him and he turned round , but I did n't really see his face in the dark , or if I did , I blocked it out I was so scared . |
26 | All over two , then if you pass , spread them over minus sixteen add thirty four gives me eighteen over two , or if I do minus thirty four I get nine over two , that 'll be plus nine or even minus twenty five |
27 | The white calico drawers would be standard wear , laundered all together , and I knew , having realized that none of the patients wore their dental plates , that there was no place here for black lace with rosebuds — nor if I brought them would they be long in her possession . |
28 | Although if I remember , Commander , your muse in recent years has been somewhat fugitive . ’ |
29 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
30 | ‘ But the thing about Robbo is that he is a determined beggar and I know that if I ask him , he will say OK if he 's ready . |