Example sentences of "[subord] if [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it , it was so varied that you went through the , the cities and the highland scenes where they went through the highlands and in the country and then you ended up with coming on to a crossroads in a modern , a futuristic city , where if you look down you , the pavements were elevated and you walked down to where all the models of General Motors were displayed as if they were crossing roads . |
| 2 | Because there will usually be a common understanding between the two Japanese , the Japanese businessman whom one wishes to meet will generally be more favourably disposed to hearing one 's opinion than if one walks in without an introduction . |
| 3 | One is that a predator is less likely to detect fish prey if they form a school than if they spread out . |
| 4 | If you sit at the back of a lecture hall , you 'll get less out of it than if you sit up front . |
| 5 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 6 | Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four |
| 7 | Well there 's no use moving in till they 've got a lounge carpet cos if they go in they 'd just have to move everything to get it in |
| 8 | Cos if you go back up in September , it 's higher for the increase next January . |
| 9 | Actually I would , cos if you end up murdering her |
| 10 | Cos if you got in by bus this morning ai n't he ? |
| 11 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 12 | But you see if if we move back we 'll be able to get a bigger house . |
| 13 | And if if we home in on that then certainly then that 's a nice comfortable seven fifty to eight hundred pound a week . |
| 14 | And if we if if we ring up , he puts he just puts the phone straight down , soon as you tell him who it is . |
| 15 | Now if if we start up here somewhere . |
| 16 | If if they put up dwellings . |
| 17 | But if if you end up with all the popular metric business at somewhere around the sort of equivalent price level , margin level that you 've got that business at , |
| 18 | So the people at the front yeah if if you come up a little bit closer . |
| 19 | But it , it just goes to show you that , you know if you , if if you go down the structured way , it does work . |
| 20 | And then if if you lay down the joker cards you have to kiss everybody . |
| 21 | because er erm it it you know it 's erm if if you made up your mind you you if you 've had offers of salary I do n't know why you 're not taking them . |
| 22 | Well it does , if if if you pick up accents , some people never change ! |
| 23 | Anyway perhaps if if I come back to you after next Tuesday afternoon when I 've got a meeting to talk just about that subject with the deputy and see what options are going to come forward . |
| 24 | If I , if if I found out there was animals in our caravan , I 'd take them to town . |
| 25 | There are always gon na be a a set of of people in any area who erm who will latch on to racist attitudes and racist acts if if someone comes in waving that as an you know , as an organized activity . |
| 26 | Because if one stands out then they lose what they 've got , they lose their job . |
| 27 | Which is a great pity , because if one cuts out all the Freudian claptrap , Abse has produced a brilliant character analysis of the Prime Minister , and of the whole Thatcher phenomenon , which succeeded in scaring the wits out of me . |
| 28 | And if we do get a period of rapid inflation , because if one looks back at seventy four seventy five , with inflation running at over twenty percent a year , stock market out of control , erm and er and er building society rates very poor , erm you know seventy four begins to look a bit like ninety four to me . |
| 29 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
| 30 | And I suppose it is like that , because if we walked up to those , we should see more — and more … ’ |