Example sentences of "if they [verb] [coord] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | What would you do if they came and built a hotel on this stretch of coast ? |
6 | 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 . |
7 | They should not get annoyed , because if they shout or beep , I start shouting obscenities . |
8 | But if they disobeyed or tried to escape they would be shot out of hand . |
9 | If they wait and see , they would risk joining a rush of borrowing when the bonds have to be repaid , forcing interest rates higher . |
10 | They probably talked to him already , they 'd have talked to everybody in that block , just asking if they saw or heard anything . |
11 | Course , they drop onto you any old time if they come but if they ca n't |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Widows also loose rights to pensions based on their former husbands ' contribution records , if they cohabit or remarry . |
14 | The counselling and procuring provisions are contained in s.1(7) and stipulate that it is an offence for , inter alios , any of the above mentioned insiders to counsel or procure any other person ( ie not only individuals ) to deal in the relevant securities , if they know or have reasonable cause to believe that person would deal in them on a recognized exchange . |
15 | They also get asked if they bite or kick . |
16 | On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it . |
17 | ‘ Some people expect a movie to be more than entertaining if they go and just laugh all the way through , they think there 's something wrong . |
18 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
19 | If they go and charge that we |
20 | They learned that if they blew and sucked a little at all baits before they accepted them , the safe ones moved easily and the dangerous ones did not . |
21 | He played right into my hands and I then said , ‘ There is no such thing as political theory in Ireland , just different gangs that compete with each other and reward their followers if they win and punish those who did n't vote for them , if they lose . ’ |
22 | Leicester , of course , will claim an automatic place in the Premier League if they win and Middlesbrough lose or draw at Molineux the same dramatic last day scenario from which Brian Little , their manager , emerged with promotion honours at Darlington the previous two seasons . |
23 | Leicester , of course , will claim an automatic place in the Premier League if they win and Middlesbrough lose or draw at Molineux the same dramatic last day scenario from which Brian Little , their manager , emerged with promotion honours at Darlington the previous two seasons . |
24 | What a coup for the bastards , if they kidnapped or murdered the wife of a Cabinet Minister . |
25 | I 'll sort it out if they like but I 'm not swimming again . |
26 | Who , if they recognised and understood the consequences of their actions , would choose such a course ? |
27 | And you know and you , you , you got to have , got ta get , you know , you have to get cross with them if they misbehave or whatever because otherwise there is n't any order in the place . |
28 | I want to ensure that the system works properly and effectively , but I assure Opposition Members that , if they persuade and encourage welfare rights organisations to make speculative claims , they are not helping those who are in real need . |
29 | Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them . |
30 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |