Example sentences of "if it [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way .
2 There must be some height , call it h , such that an animal would just break its neck if it fell from that height , but would just survive if it fell from a slightly lower height .
3 All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something .
4 Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth .
5 Very often people are almost haunted by one particular experience and they think to themselves , ‘ Oh no , I could n't stand it if it happened like that again' .
6 If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week .
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