Example sentences of "[adv] if i [vb mod] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're at pains to stress this is n't a protest , but we were here for rest and recreation , ’ he said , ‘ so if I ca n't send my men ashore ; there 's not much point in staying . ’ |
| 2 | So if I ca n't eat , I wo n't talk . ’ |
| 3 | So if I ca n't have you here , if you 're determined to leave Venice , then I 'm coming with you . |
| 4 | I do n't want to be ‘ kept ’ by him , so if I ca n't afford to go out we just stay in and read together or just watch television . |
| 5 | ‘ Not if I ca n't hear the order , ’ Isabel muttered grimly . |
| 6 | She said , Listen I 'm giving a little bit Peggy because , she said , I could n't go away if I could n't come to you . |
| 7 | Well if I ca n't have a bit of this chocolate , I 'm going home . |
| 8 | cos you think well if I ca n't see any of the cars behind it then they ca n't see me either . |
| 9 | Yes , well if I ca n't find her , I will have to ring her up and say what hours is she doing here ? and I think that will be a way of finding out , but I 'm not coming before nine and if she 's not here at nine I will want to know why , what time she 's started . . |
| 10 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 11 | Well I would like to hope that he would take notice of my letter even if I would n't get any support from British Press . |
| 12 | For good measure , she added , a trifle pathetically , ‘ I am a good girl , really truly , even if I ca n't give you any references , and I will work hard , I promise . ’ |
| 13 | For example — and just , as they say , off the top of my own head — I can imagine , even if I ca n't paint , these prototypically Magrittian images : a revolver that fires doves ; a two-humped animal with heads at each end ( a palindromedary , perhaps ) a painting of the Crucifixion that is itself ( the painting I mean ) nailed to a Cross ; an unearthly skyscape in which the four Presidents ' heads from Mount Rushmore emerge out of a billowing bank of clouds . |
| 14 | And I 'll be proud of you even if I ca n't understand them ! |
| 15 | And I am pleased , though unsurprised , that my programming remains effective , even if I ca n't get right in there to nurse it along . |
| 16 | and even if I ca n't take it up on the day , I could probably take it up the night before . |
| 17 | But this time I knew I could use it , even if I could n't think exactly how . |
| 18 | Mind , when I give 'im the wallet and 'e looked inside it , 'e was a mite more pleasant , even if I could n't see nothing but 'is mince pies and 'is 'ooter . |
| 19 | I would n't be where I am today if I could n't hold my own in a dog-eat-dog world . |
| 20 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 21 | offered to call round if I could n't go to the meeting . |
| 22 | So I promised I 'd never hit anyone again if I need n't go back to Dr Pseud , and they said yes . |