Example sentences of "if they [verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they wish they can stick to the bare bones of the task , as an intellectual exercise , but if they feel secure they may inject ‘ feeling ’ ideas . |
| 2 | People may put themselves into residential care if they wish they will pay the whole of the bill . |
| 3 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 4 | In his wake were two older men in crumpled uniforms , unshaven clumsy fellows , carrying their rifles gingerly as if they feared they might go off unexpectedly . |
| 5 | If they listen they 'll love you if you listen I 'll tell you because you 'll do it . |
| 6 | If they know they can get special deals . |
| 7 | Also , the person asking for the review has to agree that if they lose they will pay the other side 's costs . |
| 8 | You know , and I feel , I do feel very angry , I mean th th the family that she 's referring to who ca n't , who have difficulty hav getting transport for Sunday morning , they 're not parishioners , but are actually in the parish , and they know perfectly well that if they ask they will get transport , and indeed in the past they have asked , and they have got transport . |
| 9 | If they stay they must deliver an emasculated version of their own educational vision , and in such a position it is easier to deny the ideals than to stay open , day after day , to the disappointment and the sense of inauthenticity . |
| 10 | Well , if they said they 'd cancel it anyway . |
| 11 | If they said you can go anywhere you like it would , that would cause I would , I would have difficulty deciding . |
| 12 | The little ones would giggle at that if they noticed , and if they giggled she 'd know what about , he was sure . |
| 13 | I guess he 's just what Big Jack needs , a full-back who 'll try & get forward , and if they qualify we could see a few Leeds players in the USA even if without England and Scotland . |
| 14 | Gotrek claimed that if they wished they could come to Karaz-a-Karak with an army and plead for its return . |
| 15 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 16 | Perhaps if they had he would have been trying just a little harder and not preparing himself , as he was , for a long night of fornication . |
| 17 | " I was on teams with older girls and if they drank I would follow suit , " she explained . |
| 18 | Nearly a third said they would be unfaithful if they thought they could get away with it . |
| 19 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 20 | They were always having a go , the hard men , those who 'd blow up the Pope if they thought it would help the cause . |
| 21 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 22 | But folk here were eager to let you into their neighbour 's secrets , particularly if they thought it might distract your attention from their own . |
| 23 | If they delay they may fall into arrears with their tax and later be faced with having to pay tax for past years . |
| 24 | Nobody in industry has actually got an absolute guarantee , I mean even the British Telecom schemes said they 'll pay , they 'll pay the rate of inflation if they feel they can afford . |
| 25 | but if they get the upper hand , and if they think they can start er dictating , then they will , alright ? |
| 26 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 27 | " If they think they can discover the lost vein , or by driving a new level find a fresh one , they will do one or the other for their own advantage " . |
| 28 | ‘ If they think they can set up a squad at three months ’ notice , they 're sadly mistaken . |
| 29 | Ask the children if they think they can walk through a postcard . |
| 30 | Right , well perhaps I , perhaps people could as actually come and speak to me afterwards , if they , if they think they could help at all , that 's International Women 's Day and all the local organisations have been asked to take part |