Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Cheap washable sheets and covers , which are the most practical as they can be disposed of if they become heavily stained .
2 Sort of if I go smartly dressed I can see if they 've got anything .
3 They would of if you had n't put them in a boil wash
4 It wor even , providing you have n't got a lot of if you 've only got about a hundred people it 's not too bad that cos it , it also creates a bit more atmosphere .
5 We must put a stop to employees being put at risk , and being pressurized by ruthless employers to work unsafe , under the threat of if you do n't do it , then we 'll get somebody that will .
6 However what we do n't want er our consultants to get in paranoid about if they do n't get that target .
7 How about if we went out and bought the desk erm
8 ‘ How about if we ran back ? ’
9 Okay how about if we added here 's a tricky one see if you can work out how we 're going to do it .
10 The thing about thing about if you go down the south of the islands they 're so nice , it 's very hard .
11 ‘ How about if you do n't talk to me about weird , ’ Charity said , with her first touch of impatience .
12 Now how about if I take away ?
13 Geoff er had a problem with transport so I rang A B A Disco shouting and screaming at Alistaire about if I sit here any longer you 're gon na have to chip me off , I 'm frozen !
14 How about if I said well the reason why they migrate is that they do n't know about urban unemployment , you know if , you know , it 's a lack of information problem .
15 They are often advertised in the newspapers as ‘ bomb proof ! ’ ; no matter what occurs they will just continue their mild sweet way as if nothing had ever happened .
16 The weeds that we 'd uprooted in the morning were shrivelled and brown ; the earth looked as if nothing had ever lived in it .
17 Then I washed and dried the two beer-mugs and the three vases , and put them back in their normal places , as if nothing had ever happened .
18 On shore the remaining sheep were released with their new stud ram , whereupon they scattered over the grazing as if nothing had ever disturbed their tranquillity .
19 And for those people who are n't happy with what Stacker does anyway ( like our esteemed editor , for example ) , the package now comes with a useful Unstack feature so you can automatically return your system to its original state as if nothing had ever happened .
20 God , it was as if nothing had ever happened between them .
21 ‘ Not to the same degree , of course , but on Sunday there was the same feeling — as if we were continuing a conversation we were having yesterday , as if nothing had really changed .
22 When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important .
23 I mean it is not as if we 've suddenly gone to totally new territory .
24 ‘ Julian and I feel as if we 've always lived here .
25 The three of us drift together , as if we met quite by chance near the water 's edge .
26 We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful .
27 The two cases were laid side by side , and likenesses and differences were solemnly analysed as if we had here before us two ‘ real ’ , directly comparable objects .
28 You 're going to get more , it 's just as if we had just the big pipe from the
29 Christ knows , as if we had n't enough problems with the bloody Germans without Peter Young stirring them up. , The Sergeant marched off muttering loudly to himself , something about ‘ fucking bagpipes ' ’ and ‘ ‘ crazy colonels ' ’ .
30 as if we had n't enough troubles , now I read that the International Monetary Fund is worried that the world is running short of money !
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