Example sentences of "and if you [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And if you knew that pushing one particular thing was going to get you nowhere you did n't waste time going on pushing it , you left off and started pushing something else .
2 It may be the start of a long slide away from the story you have to tell and if you let that happen you will , however quick and exciting the dialogue , eventually threaten your reader 's interest in the whole .
3 And if you pass that test you go back to your police force and you are evaluated and having tests all the time .
4 And if you went and bought the essential oil you could buy
5 G-ARJU has an equipped empty weight of 2564 lbs and if you subtract that from the maximum weight of 3800 lbs there is a useful load of 1236 lbs .
6 But there may be other symptoms over the years , and if you marry and have children they may inherit in various ways .
7 And if you go and have a look at the tables , you find that Abbey Life actually makes your money grow faster than a lot of other insurance companies .
8 And yet I tell you what and if you go and play football on Sunday and you 're not a hundred percent fit from this cold you 've lost all next week as well .
9 Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now .
10 If you assume that on politically sensitive issues as is normally the case the magistrates would not vote , and if you assume that the Secretaries er Secretary of State 's appointees would , as would seem entirely plausible , vote in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State were indeed a Conservative Secretary of State , you would in fact have er in a area where the with the with the with the substantive Labour majority , you would have a Conservative majority on the police authority and you would you have the possibility of conflict between the police police authority and the local authorities er in the area who are jointly responsible with the police authority for many aspects of er of of policing by consent .
11 I think your difficulty arises from the fact that if you choose someone who 's alive , they 'll deny it , and if you indicate that it was Dr Wetherby , whose bedroom on my plan is next door to yours , you immediately establish a connection with him which will interest us .
12 That might be the simplest way and if you add that to the seventy two that are out of commission short term beds , holiday beds , which you 've got to keep empty anyway .
13 And if you believe that , you 'll also be pleased to hear that Tranmere Rovers have signed Toto Schillaci .
14 sex and horny and if you believe that you are stupid .
15 Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes .
16 You are the most ill-mannered , arrogant man it has ever been my misfortune to meet and if you think that I am going to obediently trot over there and start picking up that rubbish now … ’
17 And if you think that I am going to sit here — ’
18 Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time .
19 And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once .
20 And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself .
21 At the front door , as she watched them go down the garden path , with their jolly waves and their toothpaste smiles , Viola shouted : ‘ And if you see that father of yours again , you can tell him it wo n't do .
22 And if you accept that , why does a baby make it so much worse ?
23 Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine .
24 It 's just a matter of selecting which one to meet at , and if you overslept when the decision was made , wander round till you find the group .
25 Right so you touch its extremities and if you feel that its little feet are lovely and warm you know that it 's alright , okay ?
26 and if you feel that the pains are bad during the night , take them at
27 The UK recommendation for vitamin C is 30mg , while in the USA it is 60mg ; and if you drink or smoke , your need for vitamin C is increased , as explained on page 107 .
28 You can get is at Grantham and if you read and you 'll see all the things that your dog is likely to carry into her ba has she got a basket ?
29 Physical exercise is becoming known as a valuable tool in treating depression , and if you find that hard to believe just try forcing yourself into a vigorous half hour 's sport , jogging or even just a brisk walk next time you feel low , and note the lift in your mood afterwards .
30 And if you find that sprinkling on just a little bran in no way detracts from your bowl of breakfast cereal , then you will be tempted to continue to do so .
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