Example sentences of "[v-ing] if it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straightforward electronic testing of the assembly , that is , seeing if it does all the things it should , is slow , costly and may still fail to reveal some imperfections . |
| 2 | ‘ They was saying in the grocer 's today , the river 'll be flooding if it gets much worse . |
| 3 | The real question that the hon. Gentleman should put is to his own party : how will it keep tax and spending plans going if it does not have the benefit of privatisation revenues ? |
| 4 | It is no use having a racket for volleying if it does n't help other parts of your game . ’ |
| 5 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 6 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 7 | I 'll do your arm , but do n't be complainin' if it fockin' well hurts . |
| 8 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |