Example sentences of "if they [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they recovered and were friends she was delighted , and would flirt with them , and assume an easy physicality with them , and sleep with them again maybe , and break their hearts again if given half a chance . |
| 2 | But they can not do this if their minds and emotions are already sealed tight against it — if they assume that religion is outdated and not worth studying . |
| 3 | Most tenants of local authorities , new towns and housing associations can now take in lodgers if they wish and they do not need their landlords ' consent to do so . |
| 4 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 5 | Somebody er to whom the erm er matters could be referred to er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund er to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way , which is something that we have n't got at the moment . |
| 6 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 7 | Yet it costs individual households nothing more to put out an extra binfull , although the community as a whole will have to pay more ; conversely , they save nothing if they recycle or compost or simply buy more carefully . |
| 8 | They want him to have injections every month — I do n't know if they help or not — but he says they slow him up and make his legs ache and he ca n't think straight . |
| 9 | People living alone are particularly at risk if they smoke because , as I mentioned in an earlier chapter , it is a considerable fire hazard in the home . |
| 10 | What would you do if they came and built a hotel on this stretch of coast ? |
| 11 | Yeah , well I 'd feel sorry for them again , but you know , if they went and did it willingly , it 's their , that 's their problem . |
| 12 | She could have argued that if they went as planned to farm in another country , nobody would know about her past . |
| 13 | A herd of deer on the African plains may feed undisturbed when a lioness walks among them , if they perceive that she is only out for a stroll . |
| 14 | They should not get annoyed , because if they shout or beep , I start shouting obscenities . |
| 15 | But if they disobeyed or tried to escape they would be shot out of hand . |
| 16 | Yet if they wait while a complex corporate empire is unwound , the value of their loans can shrivel almost to nothing . |
| 17 | If they wait and see , they would risk joining a rush of borrowing when the bonds have to be repaid , forcing interest rates higher . |
| 18 | They probably talked to him already , they 'd have talked to everybody in that block , just asking if they saw or heard anything . |
| 19 | Course , they drop onto you any old time if they come but if they ca n't |
| 20 | And if they come when my brother 's here , he 'll get some marvellous shots of them , I promise you , telephoto lens , the lot , and I think he 's got a video camera now , too . |
| 21 | There 's an undeniable fact that that is so and that will obviously benefit the economy if they come and they will feel a draught if they do n't come . |
| 22 | In a drastic curtailment of the appeal process for condemned prisoners , federal courts would be required to deny appeals against state-imposed death sentences if they determined that the prisoner had received a " full and fair " trial . |
| 23 | If they doubt that , there is an ominous warning in today 's London Times : ‘ Their actions will only increase the mounting pressure upon British politicians to wash their hands entirely of the Irish dilemma ; to imitate the IRA 's tactics is to play into its hands . ’ |
| 24 | Widows also loose rights to pensions based on their former husbands ' contribution records , if they cohabit or remarry . |
| 25 | First , children might refrain from reporting or at least giving evidence if they know that a substantial prison sentence for a member of their family is the probable outcome . |
| 26 | Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised . |
| 27 | Val Catto does n't know if they know that Ezra Gideon sold two horses to Mr J. A. Filmer . |
| 28 | Remember that your fish will hide less if they know that shelter is available when they want it . |
| 29 | The evidence shows that such children will make greater progress in English if they know that their knowledge of their mother tongue is valued , if it is recognised that their experience of language is likely to be greater than that of their monoglot peers and , indeed , if their knowledge and experience can be put to good use in the classroom to the benefit of all pupils to provide examples of the structure and syntax of different languages , to provide a focus for discussion about language forms and for contrast and comparison with the structure of the English language . |
| 30 | And so , I imagine , do most women , even if they know that , often , love also means pain . |