Example sentences of "them if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then the owners had some capital tied up in their slaves so it cost them if one died , but now they lose nothing . ’ |
| 2 | I now say : that to talk about perceived-as appearances , and to talk about what , on looking at things , listening to them , and so on , we would believe about them if we had no reason to think otherwise , are to talk about one and the same thing . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to her many constituents who are now home owners and thus have the privilege of owning their own homes — a right which would have been denied them if we had listened to the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 4 | Can we keep them if we got them ? |
| 5 | Knowledge of the rules , the standards required of us , does not necessarily ensure that they will always be kept , for we still have the choice of breaking them if we wish . |
| 6 | It would be a dim prospect for them if we returned to the policies of the Labour party . |
| 7 | because their programmes can be planned , and because in fact we can check them if we desire to ( Bevan , cited in Donnison and Ungerson , 1982 , p. 142 ) |
| 8 | It could n't have made any difference to them if we knew what was happening . |
| 9 | our mutual it helps them if we know how it works it helps us if we know what problems they encounter |
| 10 | They told us they would kill them if we did n't follow orders . ’ |
| 11 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 12 | ‘ How will it help them if we do nothing ? ’ |
| 13 | We are ready and willing to bring further pressure on them if we see it as necessary in the future . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We turn to them if we need them . |
| 15 | communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So did each sheet of lavatory paper which the teacher gave them if they asked , and the box of wax tapers for lighting the gas mantle . |
| 18 | My mother 's aunts and cousins in Italy do n't know where she is and I would n't tell them if they asked . |
| 19 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 20 | If you start with small frogs , make sure the fish are too small to eat them if they fall into the water . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
| 22 | The bespectacled motormouth gets a cover splash on the New York Post for urging black kids to skip school the day his Malcolm X biopic opens , claiming that ‘ the teachers ca n't hold it against them if they write a report on what they see . ’ |
| 23 | Neither politicians at court nor governors in the colonies were expected to live on their salaries ; having outside interests would not cause any trouble if it simply supplemented their salaries , though it would be used as an additional reason to attack them if they followed policies the king disliked . |
| 24 | Accepting money or negotiable instruments in good faith does not render the acceptor liable to return them if they turn out to have been obtained illegally . |
| 25 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
| 26 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 27 | But this young one , a very spiritual guy , like a leftover from The Deer Hunter with a black headband and black jersey , said he wanted to shoo these journalists ; he had a revolver with him all the time , he is licensed to kill and he says he 'd shoot them if they came near , and I said ‘ No , please do n't do that , I 'll get in more trouble , ’ and he said , ‘ I ‘ ll just hit them in the knee . ’ |
| 28 | Back in our first Gittel 's day , everybody understood what was expected of them — humans , demons , angels , the lot — and knew what punishments would befall them if they stepped out of line . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't read them if they 've not yet been written ! ’ |
| 30 | 1938 Caption — ‘ You might ask them if they 've got two ringside seats left ? ’ |