Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has a residual power to make an appointment if the child has sufficient understanding to give instructions himself and wishes to do so or if it considers that it would be in the child 's best interests to be legally represented ( s41(3) ( 4 ) ( a ) and ( b ) ) . |
| 2 | So that if it goes again I can get a cheap one then you can use a cheap one to tie it to the fence . |
| 3 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 4 | The main thing is to get a piece of paper between each piece of glassware so that if it does move , And if you j you just pack a piece of paper in er er fold it over a little er and push it in , i i so you stop movement . |
| 5 | ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think . |
| 6 | So that if it happened that I died they would be able to make a campaign issue of it . |
| 7 | so that if it slops |
| 8 | He kept on firing until he could see each individual rope on the net , then hauled the nose up and vaulted the balloon , realizing as he did so that if it caught fire now he would be fried . |
| 9 | ‘ We have made it our duty to find out as much as we can about Natasha , so that if it comes to a point where we want to adopt her , we will have the documentation ready . ’ |
| 10 | remember ours , it would not be flat smells of cat but not only that if it weed on me carpet as much as I love it I might get a |
| 11 | and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else . |
| 12 | RE should not be expected to bear the full weight of this responsibility , especially because if it does it can not deal with what is distinctive and peculiar to it — there is not time , etc . |
| 13 | Marriage would come or it would not and if it did not come sooner it would come later or she would be unmarried and what stigma was there in that ? |
| 14 | they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express |
| 15 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 16 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 17 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 18 | It managed to hold its own yesterday and if it continues to strengthen the pundits reckon we could be due for another prolonged rally in shares in the New Year . |
| 19 | I usually take something off the peg , hope that it fits , take it home and if it does n't , try taking it back . |
| 20 | Well they used to , if a battery could n't be , you can charge it up but if it breaks through from one cell to the other a a across with sediment in the bottom , so it gaps that cell and that cell so you can charge it forever because the one 's discharging the other with the sediment that 's arrested in the bottom cos i it 's like putting a connection across , so it never actually charges . |
| 21 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
| 22 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 23 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 24 | For Skaller saw everything again , as it had been then twenty-five years ago , as clearly as if it had been yesterday . |
| 25 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 26 | You 've got to look at the other positive thing as well though that if it comes out as a target and there are specific training needs there throughout the |
| 27 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 28 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 29 | She saw it all as plainly as if it had been magically transported from Yorkshire and spread out on the quayside , the moors stretching away in the distance until they met the skyline . |
| 30 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |