Example sentences of "[v-ing] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie scrambled out of the sand-hills and ran along the bank , crashing her way through the tall , razor-edged grass , not minding if it cut her hands . |
| 2 | Straightforward electronic testing of the assembly , that is , seeing if it does all the things it should , is slow , costly and may still fail to reveal some imperfections . |
| 3 | In Kennedy v. Broun ( 1863 ) 13 C.B. 677 ( Common Pleas ) Erle C.J. said that in Lampleigh v. Brathwait , ‘ it was assumed that the journeys which the plaintiff performed at the request of the defendant , and the other services he rendered , would have been sufficient to make any promise binding if it had been connected therewith in one contract ; the peculiarity of the decision lies in connecting a subsequent promise with a prior consideration after it had been executed . |
| 4 | She hurried out of the hall as soon as she had finished speaking , not even particularly caring if it looked as if she were running away . |
| 5 | ‘ They was saying in the grocer 's today , the river 'll be flooding if it gets much worse . |
| 6 | The real question that the hon. Gentleman should put is to his own party : how will it keep tax and spending plans going if it does not have the benefit of privatisation revenues ? |
| 7 | . And this is why I choose the cutters because it was mechanically and er I I was quite with it , I was able to sort of get it going if it stopped , one road or another . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 9 | By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother . |
| 10 | It is no use having a racket for volleying if it does n't help other parts of your game . ’ |
| 11 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 12 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 13 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 14 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 15 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 16 | The reader can examine the program and prevent it running if it looks suspicious . |
| 17 | In most housing a centre light fitting , for example , goes unquestioned , although people would find even daylight very harsh and glaring if it poured from the centre of the sky all day . |
| 18 | I 'll do your arm , but do n't be complainin' if it fockin' well hurts . |
| 19 | But Mrs Brundtland left little doubt that she saw her country 's recession deepening if it stayed outside the EC . |
| 20 | The offeror must not employ any " strong-arm tactics " to prevent the board of the target from making an announcement or requesting a suspension of listing if it thinks it appropriate . |
| 21 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 22 | In Harris v Wyre Forest DC ; Smith v Bush [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 the House of Lords rejected an argument that a disclaimer of liability on a surveyor 's report prevented a duty of care arising in tort and therefore fell outside the Act ; applying s13 , the House held that the disclaimer was subject to the Act and could only prevent a duty arising if it satisfied the test of reasonableness . |
| 23 | The Bundestag is due to vote on June 20th , the Bundesrat the next day , although the upper house can not stop the lower one from leaving if it wants to . |
| 24 | In discussing if it existed . |
| 25 | Before he was murdered on 24 March 1980 , Romero made two fundamental statements : he declared that the church supported the legitimate right to insurrectional violence against a dictatorship in August 1979 and , only a day before he was shot dead while holding a mass in San Salvador , he called on members of the army and security forces to refrain from shooting if it ran contrary to their conscience . |
| 26 | The office staff start whingeing if it gets above eighty . |
| 27 | He reckons the trip would have been smashing if it had been the height of summer but as it was , he saw practically nothing from start to finish . |