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 " .
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