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

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1 Soon , though , we hit a Catch-22 : I could get funding for more equipment if there was a ‘ group ’ organised , but no village women wanted to be organised if they did n't have machines .
2 ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place .
3 ‘ It is disappointing because he was just getting the hang of Wimbledon and he would have won if he had n't taken the knock at the first bend , ’ said Williams .
4 ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host .
5 When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken .
6 The patient is lifted if he has not recovered his ability to balance , that is , if he tends to topple and fall backwards and towards his hemiplegic side when he tries to sit or stand up without any support .
7 They were well fed and well disposed to each other and they could hardly be blamed if they felt just a little smug .
8 Steve asked reproachfully as if he did n't want to get blamed if it had n't .
9 No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action .
10 I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident .
11 This was the way Therese would have looked if she had never left the stage , never married Friedrich , never had years of misery and failure .
12 I wonder how he would have responded if you had n't been so angry/polite/upset by the loss of your children ? "
13 It will be recalled that Peirce made no use of natural selection for similar purposes , and the difference between the projects of the two epistemologists will be clarified if we note why Quine can do so .
14 Nothing you had done , or said , would have mattered if I had n't .
15 And , and to be able to if you like , bring it as a dowry , but it would n't have mattered if she had n't a penny .
16 Well , what we 've decided to do is er know what to do and er this , this is the gang this is maybe exaggerated if you do n't have three people on the bottom if you get Any thing else ?
17 ‘ Many of our recent troubles in retaining and maintaining public confidence might have been less severe and more easily solved if we had not begun to depart from the traditional relationships between ranks , ’ he added .
18 The argument is often heard that problems are not necessarily solved by throwing money at them ; how are they solved if you do n't ?
19 If the main leak could be concealed by showing only at low tide , Willis thought that the equally serious problem of rain — for the weatherboards were particularly weak in one place — could be solved if he stood directly under the drip , wearing a sort of broad waterproof hat .
20 So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it .
21 Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair .
22 Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning .
23 Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning .
24 In Scotland , according to a law passed in 1288 , a man could be fined if he did not accept .
25 A very nice book , highly recommended if you do n't already possess the relevant Interpet encyclopedias .
26 ‘ I will be devastated if we do n't win , ’ he admits .
27 She had filled an emptiness in his life and he knew that he would be devastated if she left now .
28 She has always had this dream that I would make it to university and she will be devastated if I do n't continue , but the way I am feeling now , I do n't want to .
29 Lucenzo was smiling for a special reason , though she was darned if she knew why .
30 ‘ I 'd never have noticed if you had n't said , ’ said Milton , failing to keep the grin off his face .
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