Example sentences of "[pers pn] if they [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I told them I would n't have her , I , I if they wanted to go on holiday I would n't have her , I could n't have her in here she 'd knock everything to bits , try to move everything in here that she would n't chew |
2 | The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do . |
3 | theirs if they put the bypass in . |
4 | Happiness can only be theirs if they honour that gift . |
5 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
6 | People would n't be so nice to me if they thought I was so lucky , but it 's fun to see their faces when I bring certain special ones back now and then . ’ |
7 | Yes , it had been a strange episode , and not only were those people unaware of my name but I 'd like to bet they would fail to recognize me if they saw me again . |
8 | ‘ My Mum and Dad 'll kill me if they catch me out here . ’ |
9 | Will doctors give up trying to save me if they know I want to donate my organs ? |
10 | I do n't bother people and they had best not bother me if they know what 's good for them . |
11 | I also took the opportunity of giving them Mr Connon 's phone number so they could contact me if they wished . |
12 | I was sent away for life , and they 'll hang me if they discover I 've come back . ’ |
13 | ‘ They 'd have told me if they suspected something was going on . ’ |
14 | At Le Progres in Montmartre Muriel Langlade , 19 , drew defiantly on her Camel and said : ‘ They can arrest me if they want , I 'm not giving up . ’ |
15 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
16 | And you know and you , you , you got to have , got ta get , you know , you have to get cross with them if they misbehave or whatever because otherwise there is n't any order in the place . |
17 | So did each sheet of lavatory paper which the teacher gave them if they asked , and the box of wax tapers for lighting the gas mantle . |
18 | My mother 's aunts and cousins in Italy do n't know where she is and I would n't tell them if they asked . |
19 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
20 | If you start with small frogs , make sure the fish are too small to eat them if they fall into the water . |
21 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
22 | The bespectacled motormouth gets a cover splash on the New York Post for urging black kids to skip school the day his Malcolm X biopic opens , claiming that ‘ the teachers ca n't hold it against them if they write a report on what they see . ’ |
23 | Neither politicians at court nor governors in the colonies were expected to live on their salaries ; having outside interests would not cause any trouble if it simply supplemented their salaries , though it would be used as an additional reason to attack them if they followed policies the king disliked . |
24 | Accepting money or negotiable instruments in good faith does not render the acceptor liable to return them if they turn out to have been obtained illegally . |
25 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
26 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
27 | But this young one , a very spiritual guy , like a leftover from The Deer Hunter with a black headband and black jersey , said he wanted to shoo these journalists ; he had a revolver with him all the time , he is licensed to kill and he says he 'd shoot them if they came near , and I said ‘ No , please do n't do that , I 'll get in more trouble , ’ and he said , ‘ I ‘ ll just hit them in the knee . ’ |
28 | Back in our first Gittel 's day , everybody understood what was expected of them — humans , demons , angels , the lot — and knew what punishments would befall them if they stepped out of line . |
29 | ‘ You ca n't read them if they 've not yet been written ! ’ |
30 | 1938 Caption — ‘ You might ask them if they 've got two ringside seats left ? ’ |