Example sentences of "[pn reflx] if it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Director could n't ask what it was , not without implicating himself if it went wrong .
2 I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals .
3 Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested .
4 I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure .
5 The corporate planning department either undertakes these projects itself if it has the manpower , or alternatively its members join an investigative committee .
6 How could the Vendor subsequently defend itself if it has effectively admitted a breach ?
7 For instance , you could have treated that monkey yourself if it had been brought into your surgery .
8 Although they 're not going to fight , the soldiers must be able to defend themselves if it comes to that .
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