Example sentences of "if [pers pn] do not [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I tell you the truth : it is to your advantage that I go away ; for if I do not go away , the Paraclete will not come to you ; but if I go , I will send him to you . |
2 | ‘ It is to your advantage that I go away , for if I do not go away the Paraclete will not come to you . |
3 | I said , well if I do n't talk loudly she does n't hear what you 're saying . |
4 | ‘ People say I 've got the best serve in the world and that if I do n't serve well I can not win matches . ’ |
5 | " You 'll excuse me if I do n't go any further , Mrs James . |
6 | This is ridiculous I 'm not going to have time for lunch if I do n't go now … |
7 | If I do n't go quietly , she 'll probably swallow me . |
8 | If I do n't do well , then it will be because on the day I was not capable of doing so . |
9 | I 'm glad Durham seem pleased with the way it worked out , but it will have been a waste of time for me if I do n't do well in Sri Lanka and in the home series against West Indies . |
10 | If I do n't have ruinously expensive scaffolding sewn into my swimwear , I look like some kind of tribal illustration in The National Geographic . |
11 | If I do n't agree then I could find myself out of a job ! ’ |
12 | ‘ If there is one thing that Sweden taught me , it was to hang in there and not let my head go down , even if I do n't play particularly well . |
13 | You 'll have to excuse me if I do n't sound too lucid at the moment , but I have stinking cold . |
14 | and I , I went home , phoned them and he said well , I got , there 's nobody there , try he said between five and six that 's his lunch hour , so I phoned , could n't get , oh no I , I thought well it 'll be too if I do n't get so I took it home |
15 | I knew you might work it out but I reasoned that if I did n't rush forward to explain all , you might catch the culprit first and never have to trouble me . ’ |
16 | ‘ I was afraid something like this might happen if I did n't get here first . |
17 | ‘ If I did n't know just how much you like your job I might actually think you were looking for an escape from it . ’ |
18 | As he worked , Harry muttered , ‘ If I did n't know better , I 'd say that was your Mr Butler on the bed there . ’ |
19 | If I did n't know better , I 'd say Bolan and Starr were obviously partaking a bit too copiously at this time . |
20 | ‘ On returning , I mentioned to Ronnie that if I did n't know better — having miscarried only five weeks before — I 'd think I was pregnant , ’ remembers Allison . |
21 | If I did n't know better I 'd think there was a man on the horizon . ’ |
22 | ‘ I could almost think she were real if I did n't know better , but unfortunately for you and your tales my detective is an expert . |
23 | If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job . |
24 | ‘ If I did n't know better , I might almost believe you . ’ |
25 | For an instant she told herself she had imagined the almost feral glint behind the long , dark lashes as Niall said casually , ‘ If I did n't know better , I might almost get the idea that you were jealous . ’ |
26 | He gave a cool laugh and drawled , ‘ Well , if I did n't know better , I 'd say you sounded jealous ! ’ |
27 | I wonder where my torch has gone , as if I did n't know like . |
28 | Sorry if I did n't sound too keen at first . |
29 | If I did n't have so long to travel I 'd do two and a half hours . |
30 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |