Example sentences of "if [pron] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had told her the one thing of importance , even if nothing else made any sense . |
| 2 | I now quote her too kind words because they show some of the things she valued in writing , even if I imperfectly deserve such praise . |
| 3 | If I sometimes recognized this , I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind , simply because she had never known , herself , any of the pleasures of the body , and had , as a result , made me feel guilty now . |
| 4 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a time when I intended to fight — perhaps I still would if I thought I had a chance and if I ever saw either of them , but it 's hard to fight for a man as elusive as Roman has become . ’ |
| 6 | ( If I ever get any on special offer I have to remove the price tags before he sees them . ) |
| 7 | Struggling to control his temper ( he could probably have flattened his co-star ) , Wayne replied ‘ If I ever take another ad , I 'll remember that , Richard . ’ |
| 8 | It was true that the happy-go-lucky dockers , working for a few pennies every time a ship came in , were being watched carefully by Captain Robins on the bridge , but it all seemed rather haphazard , as though I would be lucky if I ever found all my trunks . |
| 9 | Probably it may be easier if I actually do those letters if they want letters . |
| 10 | It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away . |
| 11 | She 's just an old woman living in the past , and if I never have another one this evening is going to be a good one . ’ |
| 12 | IF I never see another picture of Cindy Crawford or Jeffrey Bernard , that will be too soon . |
| 13 | You see if I now pack those clubs like that you 've got an ace of clubs , yeah , so sometimes when there 's a deal coming off you might draw |
| 14 | ‘ What we have to do , ’ said Samuel , taking advantage of her exit from the ring , ‘ and I take it no one objects if I now chair this committee , ’ he added off-handedly , ‘ is to decide whether the Week of the Lion should continue or be cancelled . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I knew you 'd tracked me down , so I thought if I only took some of it you would n't put the cops on me . |
| 16 | because if someone else says that and then all of a sudden I did n't know this and now I know it . |
| 17 | So if somebody just writes those two words they get two marks . |
| 18 | It was n't as if she even liked this man enough to care a damn for his opinion of her ! |
| 19 | She 'd lost of course all modesty , if she ever had any , but she must have been reared like a pig … her language was indescribably common and coarse , and whether eating , drinking , speaking , washing or even pissing , her vulgarity and idiocy were intolerable . |
| 20 | That girl in the photos did n't look as if she ever did more than totter from A to B on the highest of spindly heels . |
| 21 | If you also take that away and you also take away land which is already covered by settlement , I would suggest that you 're left with very little and so what 's the strategic gap ? |
| 22 | Certainly it will do so if you also put some restraints on your intake of' fats . |
| 23 | You can use preservative-treated softwood , and if you also treat all the cut ends and joints with preservative , it should last quite a long time . |
| 24 | And that , I mean it 's very very readable and I think if you just read those two books that should give you quite a good |
| 25 | Yeah , but if you just know any of the people , I mean |
| 26 | and erm and so it appears , if you just take this document at this time , that how that they 're placing less emphasis upon production , I mean if their aim is to , if their primary aim is to mobilize mass support that how that production was going to decrease because it was gon na infringe upon rich and middle peasants . |
| 27 | But if you just take those points er an and , and think them through in your own mind about how this system of government differs say from the British system of government and the position of local government in the British system , you can see that , well we do n't really have local government do we ? |
| 28 | I mean , if you just cover all the areas that were really |
| 29 | If you just attach this to your |
| 30 | If you just leave all outside the door and we 'll , then when we get . |