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

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1 And if they do n't say that , or if they positively say , You 're not the guy , you 're wasting your time .
2 ‘ Well , if that headache comes back , or if anything else happens … ’
3 But , if you ever cause any more trouble , in any way to my family , or if I ever see you near our house , then I swear I 'll kill you both .
4 Or if I really have n't .
5 I must be with my Minister at ten but I 'll come back for the funeral … or if anyone else wants to talk to me … ’
6 Right : If your floorboards are even , but discoloured , or if you just want to give a floor the individual touch without spending too much , why not use paint to create colourful patterns and an interesting effect
7 If you have any sort of problem — or if you just want to put some magic back into your sex life — you 'll find the answer here .
8 Or if you just want to sort of signify a , a quick thank you to someone .
9 Important : Please do not claim help on low-income grounds if you have automatic entitlement or if you already have a current AG2 or AG3 certificate .
10 Every is going to be female , now does that mean to say , that if no males apply , or if you only advertise for someone female , which I presumably erm , actually going to er run the impossibly do it .
11 If you are thinking about buying a microcomputer have you really worked out what you want it for , or if you really need it ?
12 Or if you ever have known you would n't remember .
13 In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong …
14 Later on Adam wondered if his father had made all this up or if he really believed it himself .
15 Albert Ball or William Booth or if he really wants a statue of a lady why not Maid Marian in a lace shawl ?
16 or if he suddenly says here I 'm here
17 It is all right for the hero and heroine to go to bed together , although if they actually make love before they are married , a wedding should follow immediately .
18 Classic lighting is ideal for creating atmosphere in traditional-style bedrooms , although if you often read in bed you may need to opt for a more practical design
19 I am sure they thought that if they just gave us a token punishment , then the whole thing would all be forgotten .
20 The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period .
21 It appears that they can delay their body clock with ease but they can not advance it , so that if they ever go to bed late then they are stuck with a body clock ( and bed-time ) that tends to become ever more delayed .
22 And the point is that if they then change
23 That means that if they only take the score card then you 're in there fairly quickly do the advertising sales and come out and on to another site .
24 He demonstrated programs that drew brilliant-coloured three-dimensional designs , until those watching felt that if they too bought one they would have the same magical powers .
25 Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public .
26 They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually .
27 Erm , it 's quite clear from the district auditor 's letter that he thinks that we 're not being systematic enough , about what we do about environmental improvements , and it seems fairly clear to me to , that if we just push the to the service committees , erm , nothing will ever happen , except possibly on planning , and that erm , it will just sort of quietly disappear because it 's not the top priority of any of the other service committees .
28 there are times when we think that if we really had faith , if we really believed , if we were true Christians then we would have this peace and serenity about us .
29 We know that if we really step out of line , then the police or the armed forces may step in with their right to use legitimate violence to force our conformity .
30 erm the I mean we have a pentadactyl limb , whether we climb or run or fly or swim , you can recognise an obvious deep anatomical resemblance between the limbs of organisms behaving as differently as that , and therefore that if we really want to understand evolution we have to understand these erm , I do n't know whether one wants to call them plans or archetypes , or structures , call them what you will .
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