Example sentences of "if [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see them in my mind 's eye rising and dancing slowly around the room , their bodies undulating in a controlled exuberance as if lifted out of the world of motor cars , rockets and computerised mentalities into some universal heartbeat , some rhythm of the day , of the night , of the sea , of life . |
| 2 | Piracy may be very damaging to trade ; but if carried on by the merchants themselves , it can obviously stimulate it . |
| 3 | The government maintains that dipping is safe if carried out with the recommended protective clothing and other precautions . |
| 4 | Firstly , it was accepted by all Scots that the coronation of their king was valid only if carried out upon the Stone of Destiny , and in spite of the Christian ceremony accompanying it the right to place the crown on the new monarch 's head belonged irrevocably to the Earl of Fife , premier layman of the realm . |
| 5 | Connections of Laurel Queen , Walking The Plank and Buzzards Bellbuoy the trio to sneak in at the bottom of the race will have to send them a percentage if ending up in the money . |
| 6 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 7 | If caught out in the open , the echidna simply digs rapidly downwards until , again , nothing is visible but its spiky upper surface . |
| 8 | If made up in the form of a roll : 1040mm for the length and twice the diameter combined , and 900mm for the greater dimension . |
| 9 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 10 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 11 | Outside the wind blustered and beat against the wooden shutters and the huge sign , swinging on its iron pole , creaked and groaned as if calling out across the darkened , rain-soaked meadows . |
| 12 | Marks appear weighty and assertive if driven on to the canvas with a painting knife . |
| 13 | If driven out of the exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) , a country might no longer qualify for EMU . |
| 14 | While a wire or a gate scheme might take a few weeks if spun out to the maximum , tunnels were sometimes under construction for six months . |
| 15 | If the material was supplied almost entirely by longshore drift , the profile outside the bar should be continuous with that inside the bar ( Fig. 8.19A ) : if the bar was formed by erosion of the sea floor , the profile outside the bar , if projected back towards the land , should not reach seal level at the coast but some way inland ( Fig. 8.19B ) . |
| 16 | Standard hearing aids , if switched over to the ‘ T ’ position will receive an uninterrupted relay of the performance . |
| 17 | Butter melted to liquid in half an hour if left out of the fridge . |
| 18 | Okay we wait until the end of the month and see if comes up with the salary and work along that basis |
| 19 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 20 | The few successes on the UK OTC market are always quoted as if to make up for the failures . |