Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] if [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of the lecture is doubled or trebled if you have read — even in a desultory fashion , without making notes — the essential features of the forthcoming discussion . |
| 2 | Or say if you 've got a ten or eleven running off . |
| 3 | ‘ By the way , you wo n't be surprised or disturbed if you find some of our people patrolling the riverside path or inspecting that slip , will you ? |
| 4 | But you can be asked to leave , or sued if you cause damage . |
| 5 | Men can ring the changes by wearing a different shirt or tie if they do n't want to invest in more than one suit . |
| 6 | I can decide to call myself Mary or Kate or Abigail if I feel like it , I said to myself as I sauntered along ( and up , and down , and round and round ) the sunny streets of Bristol . |
| 7 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 8 | You 'll need grout too , plus a tile cutter , preferably heavy-duty type , especially if using quarry tiles ( Vitrex makes one which will cut wall and floor tiles ) ; and it 's worth investing in a tile file or saw if you anticipate a lot of fiddly cutting round pipes and similar obstacles , and a tile gauge if you have any really awkward shapes to tile around . |
| 9 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 10 | The school year runs from September to August and whether sixteen-year-olds can continue at school or leave if they wish depends when their birthday falls . |
| 11 | However you look at it , horses are extremely expensive to keep and even the initial outlay of buying the animal pales into insignificance when you start to add up feed , shoeing and vets ' bills , insurance , tack , transport and livery or rent if you do n't own your own facilities — the list seems endless . |
| 12 | " There is no mention of sanctions against companies , or fines if they do not fulfil the objectives , or of incentives … for them to make adjustments " he said . |
| 13 | It is much easier to talk about something or explain if you have it in front of you and even though the listener can not actually see it you will be able to paint a mental picture for him . |
| 14 | It says that in every case authoritative directives can be overridden or disregarded if they deviate much from the reasons which they are meant to reflect . |
| 15 | You may now question and comment if you choose . ’ |
| 16 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 17 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 18 | Enough plain maybe he just tries it on and thinks if you do n't say anything he 'll get away with it ? |
| 19 | In the case of working class women , Anna Martin , a suffragist , observed that mothers were being ‘ ordered by the law to perform the impossible and punished if they fail ’ . |
| 20 | When I talk about implementation of the Maastricht treaty I mean that one of the things that must be done is to set up the arrangements agreed at Maastricht by which member states can be taken to the European Court and punished if they do not carry out obligations that they have assumed . |
| 21 | ‘ And to see if you remind them of anybody . ’ |
| 22 | We can test the usefulness of wide-ranging theories of juvenile delinquency by reading books like The Jack-Roller and seeing if they bear any resemblance to the theory . |
| 23 | on and that way you can find out who the candidates are , and once we know who the candidates are we can start going out and seeing if they have public meetings or whatever . |
| 24 | They just run and hide if I chase them , ’ said Mrs Hamilton . |
| 25 | If you have saved the Carrion attack until now ( see Dead Wings in the previous section ) , there is a chance that the adventurers will slip and fall if they engage in any combat . |
| 26 | And say if you do have a bit of knowledge on it . |
| 27 | And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor ! |
| 28 | I think we ought to bite the bullet and write to them now and say if you do n't pay us a cheque for this amount cos it 's qualifying we 'll collect on next date . |
| 29 | And you , my friends , show me your will , and say if I do well . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , yeah you can sit and wait if you like oh no go away and come back again . |