Example sentences of "and if [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | the butcher , on the corner of Street , the little tiny grocers where you used to go and fe your mother used to go and fetch her groceries , and if she spent three shillings in the shop she was a good customer . |
| 32 | So what , what I 'll shall do it was fourteen pounds no what I 'll do is the whole amount and if she says any thing I say . |
| 33 | But this old crow had that get-on-with-it look , and if she wanted this place , which she did … |
| 34 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 35 | If it be light , dry and free from bugs , if it be central in position , and if it contain three rooms , it will be eagerly sought for and hard to find . |
| 36 | A junior conveyancer is equally obliged to his or her own client , and if it takes that member of the profession a little longer , or if they need to consult with senior colleagues before agreeing to a particular course of action , then so be it . |
| 37 | The search for spirituality can become diverted also into cults or fascination with the occult , and if it avoids these dangers it can become simply another form of aesthetic experience and move away from the major religious traditions , so that the arts become a kind of substitute for religion . |
| 38 | Bill has plenty more photographs and stories about his walk and if it proves popular hopes to bring out a hardback guidebook . |
| 39 | The commission would draft a new constitution to be put to a referendum , and if it won popular support , multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 40 | And if it means fifty percent of whatever we get in capital receipts going to pay off our debts , it 's a worthwhile attitude , and I think we ought to take our debts responsible . |
| 41 | I would always be ‘ starting the diet tomorrow ’ and if I ate one thing ‘ out of order ’ , the diet would collapse and I would eat everything in sight until I could hardly move . |
| 42 | A lot of my clothes are holey , and if I had more money I definitely would dress quite differently . |
| 43 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 44 | See a certain percentage have blown in I think off the grass and if I had some sort of a |
| 45 | I certainly lobbied against the authority making that move , and if I played any part in influencing its choice of the bay instead , I am very pleased at that outcome . |
| 46 | And if I put six weeks , now this 'll overlap slightly with the present one , that does n't matter the D S S do n't give two hoots from that point of view , and that 'll then run out six weeks , which is about the beginning of September |
| 47 | I think to myself , if the walls were ivory instead of mauve , and if I put fine ash floorboards down where the fat grey carpet used to be , would I then be happy and unafraid ? |
| 48 | and if I put any weight on it . |
| 49 | But that 's how it started both times before , and if I lose this baby , I 'll — ’ |
| 50 | So , I had a look at the powers of the police authority and they 're restricted to financial and administrative responsibilities and if I took that argument further , of course the Chief Constable has to take that into account . |
| 51 | once you 've seen them If I put one of those skirts on , the navy I think , and if I get any marks on it |
| 52 | And if I have two weeks time then we get paid er thirty six hour . |
| 53 | And if I have one person dearer to me than another , why must that person be singled out for an object of your violence ? |
| 54 | ‘ And if I fail these tests ? ’ said Hrun , ignoring him . |
| 55 | and if , and if I do two Beta award weekends |
| 56 | And if I want any colour I 'm going to get some black taps in the bath . |
| 57 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 58 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 59 | Sunil had sent three of them tonight and if he kept that rate up they 'd need a double-decker bus to follow me by Christmas Eve . |
| 60 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |