Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 his music thing has n't he ? , he likes music he likes to be on his own , ooh that nails sticking in if you trim your nails properly
2 But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals .
3 Just think you 'd be laughing now if they 'd spent that five grand on it
4 I had n't known how to explain what had been happening even if I 'd dared to .
5 So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box .
6 Of course , as Vietnam proved all too clearly , it 's pretty handy to have a war knocking about if you want peace songs to sound like anything other than pathetic , drippy platitudes .
7 Of course , as Vietnam proved all too clearly , it 's pretty handy to have a war knocking about if you want peace songs to sound like anything other than pathetic , drippy platitudes .
8 Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units .
9 Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units .
10 It 's clear that neither Jane nor Grant want to split up but , in Jo 's view , they should stop living together if they want to save their relationship .
11 To prevent the procession amounted to saying ‘ that a man may be punished for acting lawfully if he knows that his so doing may induce another man to act unlawfully — a proposition without any authority whatever to support it ’ .
12 So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay .
13 Well that 's for me to listening back if I 've , if somebody objects to , you know
14 I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’
15 A fortiori , a person is not to be regarded as acting dishonestly if he appropriates another 's property believing that with full knowledge of the circumstances that other person has in fact agreed to the appropriation .
16 Equally , if an institution has excess funds at the moment , and expects interest rates to rise , it will be acting rationally if it does not lend those funds out , except very short term .
17 They will arrange fitting too if you do n't want to do the job yourself .
18 It can help some to keep track of what is going on if they have others to help them .
19 On Sampson 's behalf he denied that he had any history of criminal activity or mental instability — not much point going on if he did n't — and then with the records from the gun case drawer he compiled a list of the weapons that Sampson already possessed .
20 The respite was not to last however for , just as she heard the guards wondering aloud if they had hit her , someone on one of the freighters pointed her out with a cry .
21 I do n't see us going down if we keep all our best players and we 'll finish mid-table .
22 It has also warned that some customers could be faced with paying more if it lost its hold on the household market .
23 Also from Booth 's conversation with Dicke it can be concluded that Dicke knew long before World War II that wheat products contained the offending agent ; ‘ It was a young mother 's statement of her coeliac child 's rash improving rapidly if she removed bread from the diet , that alerted his interest , when he was a paediatrician in The Hague in 1936 . ’
24 She opened her mouth to fire a barbed reply , then , remembering where she would have been waking up if he had n't bailed her out , she bit her tongue .
25 Erm also when you 're when you 're adding up if you get this fifteen minus X , right , eight minus X and you 're putting
26 And when you were doing these with lots of you 've got now got W X Y and Z in , when you 're adding up if you lay them out like that
27 I 'm not going out if I see her again .
28 Please believe that , at least , ’ she finished brokenly , not caring now if he saw the naked pleading in her eyes .
29 She cut another cross , wondering vaguely if it had a religious significance .
30 Yeah it 's a lot of effort going nowhere if I do n't
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