Example sentences of "if you [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch .
2 If you relate it to perhaps to something like car insurance , we 've got third party , third party fire and theft version and then a fully comp version .
3 " But he 'd flinch anywhere if you squeeze him like you 're doing . "
4 If they have to stay in the trench long enough for new roots to develop , they are not so likely to be damaged if you lift them from loose , friable soil .
5 if you exclude somebody on objective criteria
6 These are delicious by themselves , but if you use them for Devils on Horseback ( see p112 ) your cocktail party will surely be an enormous success .
7 If you use it from floor to ceiling in a recess — say the recesses either side of a chimney breast — it will look as if you can walk into a whole extra room next door .
8 Even if you use it in the rough edit stage to see how the music fits the visuals , without the licences it is theoretically illegal .
9 I think anger 's a really positive energy if you use it in the right way .
10 If you use it in the middle , it 's got to have commas both sides of it .
11 Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly .
12 Lipstick lasts longer if you apply it with a lipbrush . ’
13 As we know , if you shut yourself in a garage with no ventilation and leave the engine running , you will eventually stop breathing .
14 If the expenses of the children 's education are more than you can contrive , I will help with that if you inform me by letter .
15 You 're lucky if you survive them at all . ’
16 ‘ Nothing , ’ said the little boy , ‘ but it might taste better if you cooked it in the frying pan ! ’
17 If you question her about the past , you will only disturb her .
18 Well if you write something about me you write something about me !
19 Hydrogen sulphate sodium hydroxide swap them round sodium sulphate hydrogen hydroxide hy we never say hydrogen hydroxide it 's simpler to say water but if you write it as H O H then you think , Ah we 've got the two Hs and the O there .
20 But what we ca n't , it 's absolutely but if you write it in all the other divisions have got to do it as well .
21 Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it .
22 This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units — or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain — and that 's if you remember everything in this book .
23 Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year .
24 If you tell me of Sarah 's or Rachel 's or Rebecca 's nursing their children I can answer that the one drew water at a well for her father 's flocks , another baked cakes on a hearth , and another dressed savoury meat for her husband .
25 I promise I 'll be waiting , if you tell me in advance ! ’
26 Intelligent Aside from that small niggle , which is n't that important , given that you can always use the file transfer utility to move any files you need from redirected devices to the client machine , the FastLynx device drivers are very intelligent — if you tell them to be .
27 Well , they will , they will do it , but they wo n't want to do it er , you know , like committing themselves if you tell them to .
28 And if you tell her about somebody she 'll tell them .
29 And if you tell him about it he tu , he 's in a rock band .
30 If you do n't , or if you tell anyone about me , I 'll cut your heart out . ’
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