Example sentences of "[vb -s] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any untoward or awkward transition is immediately noticeable because it destroys the calm dignity that the human body needs if it is to be shown at its best . |
| 2 | Instead , we 're willing to take the risk and give Birmingham the retail centre it deserves and needs if it is not to be completely undermined by rival out-of-town attractions . ’ |
| 3 | May become deathly pale if the room is overheated ; kick off the bed covers if they are able to . |
| 4 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 5 | They have their background , in the church and church matters in England but I personally do n't think it matters if you are not familiar with the details . |
| 6 | It matters if he hangs on to you , how fast did you get out of it ? |
| 7 | ‘ Angalo thinks it matters if it 's true . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just that he worries if you are n't here . |
| 9 | From the day they are born , girl babies and boy babies are ‘ labelled ’ in hospital , given a pink or blue tag , and then doctors , visitors and friends respond accordingly ; remarking what ‘ strong ’ lungs he has if he 's a boy , and what a ‘ dainty little thing ’ she is if she 's a girl . |
| 10 | The sharing of the collector 's salary was really what appears to have been in the thoughts of Craigbarnet and his friends , for Dougalston too returned to this point in his letter to Montrose 's commissioner , telling him that Craigbarnet 's friends had given him to understand that they would support Kirkton 's re-election , ‘ with the same sellary that he now has if he would give Craigbarnett fifteen or twentie pound sterling yearly out of it ’ . |
| 11 | He has already told McCoist , for instance , that he would get the number of goals Rangers ' top scorer has if he were playing at Ibrox . |
| 12 | You do not have to continue with stage 1 exercises if you find no further need of them or you want to concentrate fully on these harder exercises ! |
| 13 | The , you reminded us of er another aspect of dreams , that , that , that one notices if you actually do a bit of dream interpretation yourself , is what called , what Freud called day 's residues . |
| 14 | ‘ At the end of the day , who cares if they 're boogie boarding off Newquay or riding big waves in Scarborough ? |
| 15 | At the end of the day , who cares if they 're boogie boarding off Newquay or riding big waves in Scarborough ? |
| 16 | And into the bag and who cares if I 'm wet . |
| 17 | Who cares if I 've got boots on ? |
| 18 | Tory also makes the other common complaint that the novelist knows less than anyone else what is in fact going on around him — he wants to make a satisfactory pattern , and hardly cares if it corresponds to anything outside his mind . |
| 19 | " Who cares if it 's impersonal ? |
| 20 | Who cares if you do n't save ? |
| 21 | Nobody really cares if he chooses not to eat meat . |
| 22 | If Gary 's so rich , who cares if he 's got a couple of million dollars " worth of heroin in the kitchen ? " |
| 23 | " No , the skin is n't broken , but he flinches if you press here . " |
| 24 | Alejandro gets pissed off and shouts if you do n't do the right thing straight away . |
| 25 | Well if she wants if she wants to get rid of it ask her how much she wants for it . |
| 26 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 27 | One wonders if we are also to have aluminum inflicted upon us surreptitiously . |
| 28 | But Scotsman Billy said last night : ‘ My wife wonders if we should get a gun . |
| 29 | If , 73 years after its foundation , we have to start from basics , one wonders if we are ever going to get there . |
| 30 | It has often been an uphill struggle and one wonders if they have given up . |