Example sentences of "[adv] if you can [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is , but , ’ she was stung into replying , ‘ only if you can keep all your salary for yourself . |
| 2 | But , without your low-calorie dressing to hand ( you could smuggle it in a hip flask , perhaps ) , order a baked potato in restaurants only if you can resist that terribly high-calorie sour cream or butter . |
| 3 | So if you can draw that one . |
| 4 | That 's it okay So if you can remember that rule the these these words are ones that a lot of adults get wrong a lot of the time . |
| 5 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 6 | We have attended a meeting on this subject and are working towards national recognition of our revised Syllabus as incorporating the necessary elements but meanwhile if you can take any such courses without undue difficulty we would advise you to do so . |
| 7 | Now if you can put all those three pieces of evidence together what does that suggest to you ? |
| 8 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 9 | No , well if you can do that . |
| 10 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 11 | particularly if you can supplement this and , and show how it erm fits into the way people discuss these issues , you know here 's some real talk , here 's some real quotes , you know , er stuff like that , it can look quite yeah , yeah , great . |
| 12 | Wedding photographs also look lovely when given a floral border , and particularly if you can press some of the flowers from the wedding bouquet . |
| 13 | And then if you can do that you can do any problem of this sort ca n't you ? |
| 14 | There 's the summary of last week 's , okay if you can pass those round . |