Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I said well I 'm not very good on computers and I 've got loads of coursework so I thought if I go down there and type out different pieces of work it would get me familiarized with them
2 Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father .
3 Good do n't forget if I go too quickly or if I give you too much say , Ooh hang on .
4 so if I get up there and do it early in the morning , well it do n't get light till half seven
5 Now , if I click on there and see it
6 I dared not think how he would be if I went back then so I had to go on .
7 If I move as privately as possible , it is to hold off the fools and rogues until the thing has a chance of success .
8 If I marched round there and demanded my wallet in front of Dennis , she would be in deep doo-doo .
9 McManus , who now faces Thailand 's James Wattana in tomorrow 's semi-final , said : ‘ If I play as well as I did against Stephen , there 's no reason why I ca n't go on to win .
10 But among all these doubts it had not occurred to her that if she got as far as 42b Milvain Street , and rang the bell , Edward would not open the door .
11 If she stays here like as not you 'll lose her anyway .
12 She knew that if she stood very still and sent forth quiet animal-soothing thoughts , it was often enough to discourage attack .
13 But then she would expl exude an atmosphere , the house could breath evil through her walls if she concentrated hard enough and the smiles would be wiped off the faces of those to whom money was no object .
14 But like then er , she , she just turned round to him and she goes tell you what , I would really , really , love it if you woke up tomorrow and you had ginger hair , cos that 'd really , really give you a dose of your own medicine !
15 If you listened very carefully and if you looked very closely , you could see it and you could hear it and you could feel it .
16 ‘ Dorothy , I think the best thing would be if you went home now and reported to me here , first thing tomorrow morning .
17 If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating .
18 If you got as far as Spargo 's you must have seen him go under the scaffolding . ’
19 Could I firstly start by thanking those delegates who after Congress yesterday have expressed support about the two rule changes that we lost and to give some encouragement to new delegates here that even if you get up here and you lose it , there 's some one hell of a lot of support out there on the floor .
20 If you remain perfectly still and keep your backs straight , you wo n't be punished further .
21 Even if you listen out carefully before you transmit , you have no guarantee that another pilot is not going to press his or her PTT at exactly the same moment as you do , with the probable result that both messages are drowned out and the Air Traffic Controller 's ears are assaulted by a high-pitched screech .
22 What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something .
23 If you go elsewhere especially if its secondhand tread carefully and , if in doubt , do n't buy .
24 If you go away then as soon as you know that you 're going we 'll send off registration for Bishop Challener and that 's it and we can send off a year 's a year 's umm fees in advance ca n't we ?
25 If you go there afterwards and what they say .
26 If you go much faster than that it gets windy very quickly , although the heater can still turn the cabin into blast furnace .
27 If you feel very strongly that the background to the Unit 's formation needs to be set out , I could perhaps draft it in the form of an ( again brief ) annexe .
28 If you look round here cos he 's right
29 And e if you look up there that extremely overbuilt area there is called the crown post truss .
30 ‘ The contributors we had are all kind of double-0-seven , cloak-and-dagger types ’ , explained Krishna Littledale , one of the enticers of funds ; ‘ … if you talk very quietly and tell them they ca n't tell anyone about this conference , they will give you a lot more money . ’
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