Example sentences of "if they have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they 've asked for really impossible things , it means the whole siege has been done for publicity — and they 'll probably kill Liam whatever happens . |
| 2 | Well if they 've applied in time they can get a p postal vote . |
| 3 | If they 've gone to the see this , to the see , Goats do n't Shave then I doubt they 'll be back till a , about midnight , one o'clock , if they get the train back if not , tomorrow morning or something . |
| 4 | ‘ They sometimes look as if they 've fallen off the back of a lorry . ’ |
| 5 | overlap with auction house chatter in that aristos are always selling the contents of the servants ' hall if they 've fallen on super-taxed times , or buying things if their grandfathers went offshore . |
| 6 | Just at the moment other men are beginning to wonder if they 've come to the end of themselves , and if this is all that life has to offer , you discover a complete new range of abilities in yourself . |
| 7 | Really , what we needed to do was to read through make sure that it was covered adequately but on the other hand , if they 've come across something twice and not if i , if it was in brackets I did n't count it , did you do |
| 8 | They 're standard army ammunition , but not necessarily issued to the British Army — again , the Ministry of Defence should be able to tell you if they 've come from some British Army depot or not . |
| 9 | Go at one of them , if they 've got like |
| 10 | That 's the way you find out if they 've slept with somebody , ask them if they 're on the Pill . |
| 11 | Mums-to-be only have the right to return to their job if they 've worked for the same company for at least two years . |
| 12 | Singer Matt is backed by two girls on drums and bass who look , at a glance , as if they 've walked off a Robert Palmer video shoot . |
| 13 | Both his in-laws , especially if they 've paid for or organized the wedding , and especially his mother-in-law . |
| 14 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 15 | I could understand them refusing you if they 'd asked for say , a B in english and C in something else |
| 16 | They just disappeared , as if they 'd popped into trap doors and been spirited away . |
| 17 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 18 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 19 | He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear . |
| 20 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 21 | If they 'd known it , if they 'd wanted to , they could have got me to do anything in those minutes . |
| 22 | If they 'd wanted to . |
| 23 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
| 24 | She began to be uncertain whether she would be able to recognise him ; she tried out her set of mental snapshots , but they were dim and amorphous , as if they 'd rubbed in the wallet of her fantasy for too long . |
| 25 | If they 'd listened to the warnings years ago perhaps Gemma would be alive today . ’ |
| 26 | There is nothing as joyful for the opinionated as to have finally been proved right and I ca n't help but think there are many marginally employed musicians around Ireland today who weep or harrumph glumly into their pints when they think what might have happened if they 'd listened to Nicky . |
| 27 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 28 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 29 | The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ . |
| 30 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |