Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 2 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 3 | That commitment can waver or disappear if the arguments of the philosopher or the historian appear to destroy its rational basis . |
| 4 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 5 | But heat-resistant hotelware , earthenware , crockery and china may be used provided it does not have metallic decoration which will blacken and spoil if used with microwave energy . |
| 6 | He would wait and see if Mr McWhirter arrived , or if he would have to fill in . |
| 7 | Other countries are not saying , ’ Let us wait and see if convergence happens ; let us wait and see whether performance improves . ’ |
| 8 | Now Faldo and his European colleagues can only wait and see if the hard work and application pays off at the weekend . |
| 9 | Anyway I 'm not saying a word to him , I 'm gon na wait and see if and what he says because I say it 's making me angry . |
| 10 | We looked so thin on the ground , I thought we 'd sit and wait and see if everyone 's coming , but erm we 'll have to get started anyway . |
| 11 | well , like I 'd say I 'd go down to post office , I say no I 'll go with ya , it was raining last Thursday , I said no I 'll go with ya , so I said I 'll wait and see if it 'll , it 'll be fine , but he 's not like that he 's an old , I would n't , well |
| 12 | Now , what 's a typical , who can tell me what the typical body language is that you would prese present or portray if you said I do n't know ? |
| 13 | At one point I was so inordinately shy of girls that I would blush and tremble if one came within a 50-yard radius of me . ’ |
| 14 | If you desire a loving , intimate relationship , ask yourself how you would think , feel and behave if you were in that relationship — and do it now . |
| 15 | Like your personality , your speaking voice can grow and develop if you want it to . |
| 16 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 17 | They will either run or attack if they are surrounded . ’ |
| 18 | The Co-ordinator will acknowledge and comment if necessary . |
| 19 | Well do you think you could pop upstairs and look and see if I 've got by any chance have |
| 20 | How do we determine exactly where a word should begin and end if hypotheses on either side are incorrect ? |
| 21 | ‘ Shall I ring and see if they 've got a table in half an hour or so ? ’ |
| 22 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 23 | However , wave flying has its own problems which a pilot must understand and recognise if such flights are to be made safely . |
| 24 | I give my leg a nasty bash , but I do n't stop and see if it 's bleeding — I just want to get out . |
| 25 | So I mean I think what we envisaged though was that the local publicity group erm would meet and see if the well first of all I suppose was there a , a necessity having seen what we 've got from national level er necessity to produce a kind of newsletter , a joint unison newsletter specific to Northumberland , that 's what the group was going to have a look at was n't it ? |
| 26 | Do n't try and help if it will endanger yourself , but remember — there 's safety in numbers . |
| 27 | Perhaps she never realized quite how deep-seated was this need , but shop , as well as factory staff , could not fail to be impressed at the way both she and Bernard always knew their names , asked with interest about their home life and would always try and help if there was a problem by sending taxis , flowers , hot meals or whatever the crisis demanded . |
| 28 | Well , I 'll tell you one thing , Monday 's not gon na be wonderful for me , I 've got to go into hospital for a little operation er b but seriously , I 'll be out on Tuesday , but I 'll , I 'll be away for the week er , because the Doc said do n't come back to , to work till a week on Monday , so I 'll , I 'll try and listen if I can , but what have you got for us ? |
| 29 | ‘ You should try and see if you can do it yourself , ’ Denice suggests . |
| 30 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |