Example sentences of "[noun sg] if [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I got up immediately and said it would be the end of a beautiful friendship if he accused me of necrophilia ! |
| 2 | A who has a new Rolls-Royce car , says to B , I will give you my car if you fetch it from the garage . ’ |
| 3 | A who has an ancient and dilapidated Rolls-Royce immobilised in his garage says to B , ’ I will give you my car if you fetch it from the garage . ’ |
| 4 | I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong . |
| 5 | You use my deodorant if I leave it in there . |
| 6 | Mummy if you get one for me . |
| 7 | How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit ! |
| 8 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 9 | In other words teachers and schools will readily seek to improve their practice if they regard it as part of their professional responsibility , whereas they are likely to resist change that is forced on them . |
| 10 | Mrs Currie says she does not agree with the ‘ dual mandate ’ — politicians sitting both at Westminster and Strasbourg , and intends resigning her Westminster seat if she makes it to Strasbourg . |
| 11 | John said ‘ I 'll ask the barman if he knows anything about it . ’ |
| 12 | Airdrie 's league status is now threatened by relegation and Falkirk could make matters worse for the club if they take anything off St Johnstone tonight and move closer to the third bottom team , Motherwell , who are only three points above them . |
| 13 | No one should underestimate Ian 's determination to be part of the England scene if we make it to America for the finals in 1994 . |
| 14 | George Watson , responding to this proposal , asserted that such topics were inappropriate for a course leading to a degree called " English " , and in any case dismissed both marxism and structuralism as outmoded " intellectual dinosaurs " : " No doubt a university is the place to study discredited intellectual systems ; but we risk derision if we propose them to the exclusion of others . " |
| 15 | ‘ It has the range if we fit it with FAST packs , ’ the Air Force general told Morton Stannard at the Pentagon . |
| 16 | ‘ did use ( or keep ) ’ A person ‘ keeps ’ a vehicle if he causes it to be stationary on a road when not in use . |
| 17 | As his wife had pointed out tartly , on many occasions , she herself would never get through a quarter of her work if she indulged herself in such idleness . |
| 18 | If an editing change or the execution of a command was a mistake , you can frequently ‘ undo ’ the error if you notice it in time ; ie ( generally ) before you do any more editing , or give any more commands . |
| 19 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 20 | Might just be one room wonder if I got my on my er B T shares ? foods cold by the time you get |
| 21 | Mr Gergen will best serve his new boss if he reminds him of the strengths of one of his old ones . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose Mrs C. thought I 'd be swilling it down like an alcoholic if she left it in the room . |
| 23 | It should not be difficult for any human being to assent to the adoption of this new creed if he compares it with what is otherwise available . |
| 24 | No doubt it is open to the objection that it presupposes the very point in issue , namely the law which is to be applied , but such a solution seems just as sensible in this context as the rule that the law governing the validity of a contract is determined by the law which would govern the contract if one assumed it to be valid . |
| 25 | I tell you what 's nice stuffing if they have it in Ulster Paula , is the chestnut one |
| 26 | For some reason they 're mounted on angled surrounds , which I quite like the look of , but the coils are screened by black plastic covers which look pretty cheap and make a nasty scratching noise if you hit them with a pick . |
| 27 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 28 | to look across at a group wh who would know a cynical opportunity if it hit them in the face . |
| 29 | BELOW RIGHT It can be considerably easier to clean up thoroughly after your pet if it relieves itself on a sandy surface , rather than on grass . |
| 30 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |