Example sentences of "[conj] if [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 2 | it can stop them going to court or if they go in and pay it off they do n't go to court . |
| 3 | A sentence has only one invariant meaning , or if it has more than one , as in the case of structural or lexical ambiguity , its meanings can be exactly specified . |
| 4 | And there was already the fear and the regret at the distance he seemed to be travelling from Ifor ; the utter ignorance of what was going to happen when or if he did finally and two years late pass the examination . |
| 5 | For though it is hard for us to credit it now , many people believed that if you travelled faster than — say — 30 miles an hour , you might actually burst and be scattered across the railway lines . |
| 6 | Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one . |
| 7 | ‘ Well ’ , came the reply from Adam , ‘ he said that if you stayed longer than a week he 'd hit the roof ! ’ |
| 8 | Yes I just want to explain very quickly for people who do n't know what we 're talking about , Leslie , because a lot of people join us by the minute , er , MPs on the Commons ' Heritage Committee , have said , they think it 's a very good idea , that if you have more than one telly , you should pay twenty pounds for the second one , and who knows , twenty pounds for the third , and twenty pounds extra for the fourth . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
| 10 | if he , that in the sense that if he came back and said the revolution 's already happening , all we need to do is to get |
| 11 | She thought that if she went there while the maid was cleaning , Theresa and Anthony out at work , she could nick the netsukes if she was quick and clever , and the maid would not notice . |
| 12 | Her heart was hammering hard but she knew that if she breathed slowly and deeply and looked long and intently at the comforting ritual of man and beast before her , the thudding would subside . |
| 13 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 14 | And if they find out that I 've had cookery , I 'm dead ! |
| 15 | And if she came up and thought I had n't washed properly she would push my head under the water and hold it there . |
| 16 | And if she spoke up and then it turned out to be a mistake … |
| 17 | She could hear Mary Deare droning on : ‘ Her light is going faint , and if it goes out that means she is dead . |
| 18 | And if it turns out that the right mood has arrived at last , there are plenty of ideas waiting for attention . |
| 19 | And if it turned out that he would n't , then dragons were always hungry and needed to be fed regularly . |
| 20 | I 'm not married and do n't have any children and I would love to have children and if I found out that I could n't have any I would do anything to have them . |
| 21 | No I wo n't Niki because he 's in the car and if he wakes up and he 's going to be so unhappy . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't believe he likes Brownies , ’ she confided to her best friend , Mary Trent , ‘ and if he does n't and Brown Owl married him he might not want her to go on being our Brown Owl . ’ |
| 23 | And if he turns round and says owt , I 'll say , Ian if were n't for me your kids would be naked . |
| 24 | And if he slips back and pick , picks us up about I do n't know , Pam 'll tell you when she comes . |
| 25 | Yeah and if you sit there and |
| 26 | Yeah and if you go in and think it 's like all the other museums you have charts you have figures statistics along with you you know it 's rather very sad but it 's entertaining |
| 27 | It 's not something , like the one term assurance , you know , when you have a policy for ten years , and if you live longer than the ten years , tough . |
| 28 | The chances of getting infection are greater , the younger you are , and if you have more than one sexual partner . |
| 29 | Cos if you had just if you did n't have the thing erm over the wire it would just burn right through very quickly . |
| 30 | Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures . |