Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A couple of months before , my Dad said if I ever did get pregnant he 'd chuck me out , so I thought they would . " |
2 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
3 | And if you really do have any feelings left for me , then you wo n't try to stop me . ’ |
4 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |
5 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
6 | ‘ We 've never closed a store , but if we ever did close that one , we would be happy to restore the land for industrial use . ’ |
7 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
8 | If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde . |