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

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1 Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian .
2 Oslin Williams , who was severely burned last year in a fire which killed his father at their caravan home , would have died from asphyxiation due to scarring of his windpipe if he had not had the operation , surgeons said .
3 But you can bet he knows retsina , the national wine with what even locals call an acquired taste ; ouzo , the aperitif that could blow off your sunburn if you do n't watch your step ; the taramasalata fish roe dip ; vine leaves stuffed with mincemeat , rice and herbs ; and keftedes meatballs .
4 and it 's er the end on the left hand side if you go in there 's like a little sort of little sort of lobby and , and Dave 's is the little room sort of straight ahead of you , it 's about down there somewhere
5 Pass on the windward side if you do n't want a hot bath , and you will reach an area of incredible beauty .
6 we 'll use your side if you do n't mind er
7 I think the intention if I recall correctly was to give er stewards
8 I asked her whether high buildings bothered her and she said she would feel fear if she looked up at them .
9 High-end drawing packages ( which cost hundreds of pounds ) are worth the expense if you work regularly with images and need to create complex or technical drawings .
10 It has done nothing to encourage banks to reserve against dodgy loans or write them off , for some banks risk insolvency if they do so .
11 They would n't recognise emotion if it stood up and hit them ! ’
12 But make sure you tell your lender and the Inland Revenue if you do n't want to get into trouble .
13 Now whether it will be thirty two pound if they go together maybe only be sixteen .
14 Well you come home with hundred pound if you had n't done no winners or anything you 'd come home with hundred pound .
15 The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future .
16 Keen gardeners and fanatical car washers may have second thoughts about lavish spraying if we end up with a water meter at the bottom of our garden to measure the amount we actually use .
17 And quite apart from my own views , I think we are in real danger of losing readership if we do n't reflect what I am convinced will be the general tenor of public opinion .
18 That Miss Bedwelty — she 's one of the green welly brigade , only think a horse is any good if it goes sideways and backwards — all that dressage lark — ’ ( Mr Bean called it ‘ Dressidge ’ . )
19 He wrote the part so that she could always support herself in exile if she did n't speak the language . ’
20 I 'm always sitting thinking if I had n't got them , I 'd be thinking now was it on the card I have n't got you know
21 There is a restriction on the allowance for the car if it costs more than £12,000 , and only 25 per cent writing down allowance is given in the first year .
22 That bus ahead of this car if you get out and you go and turn right instead in the middle of the road .
23 For the Rover P4 there 's ‘ A solid car if you do n't mind buying a quart of oil a week ’ .
24 Make sure that you are fully aware of the costs involved and the nature of the deal if you do not want to regret it later on .
25 A.3.2 If the Vendor notifies the Purchaser of a ‘ breach ’ prior to completion but the Purchaser decides to proceed nonetheless ( ie he does not rescind ) then the Vendor should not still remain liable for damages ; the Purchaser has foregone the opportunity to get out of the deal if he does not like it any more .
26 It would , she concluded unhappily , have been better for her own peace of mind if he had n't gone to such extreme lengths , but as he had …
27 ‘ Anybody mind if I sit down ? ’
28 However bad a landlord , there is a crucial rule that needs to be kept in mind if you do n't want to put yourself on the wrong side of the law .
29 About utility furniture , well you know the G Plans that now that there is , well this utility furniture to my mind if you choose really good makes of your utility furniture it was rather , after the style I would say G Plan , that was I 've always imagined it were , it was good quality of , of a price that people could afford , if you got the right erm , type of stuff .
30 The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction .
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