Example sentences of "[pers pn] if they [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 ? ’
  Next page