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

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1 He hoped fervently that they would go back to Florence and had dropped several hints in the hope of getting this information out of them , but the Captain was always concentrating on the job in hand as if nothing else mattered and the magistrate only smiled and nodded distractedly , his mind apparently elsewhere .
2 So that you 're not think , Oh You 're first thought cos I know the way you you were working , you 're thinking Oh if I just double that , half it or take a third of it or something like that .
3 If I ever move that , it 'll be a miracle , ’ she sighed .
4 If I ever see that girl again I 'll kill her ! ’
5 What does it matter to you if I never remarry or find a new father for Emily ? ’
6 if I never drink nor smoke what else would I have ?
7 How do you think they would react if I suddenly announced that the new man in my life is the man who ditched my sister five years ago ? ’
8 If I inadvertently forget and use 1 cc or 1 ml , they look baffled .
9 In terms of computer technology trade libel would occur if someone falsely claimed that a particular software dealer was trading in pirated software or was in financial difficulties or if a software house 's products were defective or would not operate on a particular make of computer .
10 at three thirty , if nobody else rings that wants to play three thirty then there 'll be nobody there
11 Yer arse 'll rip — have ye ever heard of a torn arse ? — if ye even try and struggle . ’
12 He stared at her as if she already knew and was simply being obstructive .
13 She was worried that she would n't have an accurate idea of what she ate if she just picked and nibbled .
14 Maybe if she just stayed where she was and did n't answer the telephone or the doorbell , did n't let anybody in , if she did n't eat , then maybe she would die too — fairly quickly , and that would solve it all .
15 If she ever believed that of him , she would weaken , give in to the powerful attraction , and then she would have to admit there were emotions behind that attraction , emotions that would lead her into heartbreak .
16 As one of them said on being asked if she ever felt that she spent too much time on her own in the daytime :
17 When asked by the judge if she ever drank or got aggressive .
18 But if the real Caroline was accessible to Jonathan Reeves , if she really liked and wanted that unprepossessing wimp , then she hardly merited the tribute even of his curiosity .
19 I wondered if she still felt that it had been worthwhile to appear in the film .
20 we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ?
21 If you just go and talk to a girl in a club in England , she 'll think you 're stupid .
22 Erm swimming is recommended as about the most all round exercise because it certainly does your heart and lungs , it does all the muscles of the body , it , according to what you do in the water of course , I mean if you just go and stand there it does nothing
23 If you just rearrange that in terms of Y T we get so we just add Y T minus one to both sides and so we get Y T into alpha into one minus plus beta X T plus lander Y T minus one right , that 's it .
24 I think you could , you could accommodate it if you just reduced that sli the , what the normal one slightly , and there 's t there 's room to put the er translation on the top .
25 Um , now may be , according to Burstow , this is a sort of self-serving thing as well because it 's a way of saying , if you just say that that say your father sexually abused you for no good reason , that 's a very frightening thing to say .
26 ( 4 ) You can be prosecuted if you dishonestly answer or , without reasonable excuse , fail to answer questions put to you .
27 But if you again burn and provoke , for every enemy you slay you raise up in England a score of enemies , and do but increase the odds against your cause .
28 If you already know that your child has HIV , it will be important for him or her to be seen regularly by a doctor who understands HIV in children and for the doctor to be kept informed about any changes in your child 's condition .
29 Now look here , if you honestly think that I 'm going down to the police station and verifying a story like that then you can think again !
30 c ) Receipt of your order on behalf of the operator of your choice will be acknowledged if you so request but please enclose the appropriate postage ( from overseas enclose an International Reply Coupon , two or more for AIRMAIL replies ) .
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