Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [verb] these [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own .
2 It looks as if she 's had these things put there to support her rather than actually casually sitting on them .
3 We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company .
4 If you 've lost these sheets erm , how many of you have lost their sheets .
5 So once you know that , these two are the same you take that from one eighty , halve the answer and it 'll give you these angles , and if you 've got that ang if you 've got these angles , then you can work out most things .
6 If you try to squeeze these requirements in around the mainstream business , you will be left with scrappy little bits of free time that are useless , and your visitors will feel cheated .
7 After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’
8 The other thing is that if you do ask these questions when the guy gets on the telephone to you , he 's going to say , ‘ Here is somebody who knows something about the media , who knows how we operate . ’
9 This was put by an MP of long experience to the House of Commons Environment Committee : ‘ If you want to save these buildings , you will only save them by stealth . ’
10 Now this is a a sort of cost benefit benefit analysis based on what would have happened if we 'd followed these protocols ourselves .
11 if we 've got these overheads , I mean it was always shown as another lump of money in the bottom .
12 Well twenty years ago I was on programmes like this , saying that doctors who said that Valium and the other tranquillizers were perfectly safe were talking rubbish and that there was every possibility that there would be problems found in the future , if we kept prescribing these drugs for vast numbers of people .
13 If we want to coat these things at any time in erm acetate
14 But I said Cheryl if we do sell these tickets to whoever and they think they round yours , I said they can , you know what she said no I do n't want anyone else , I said that 's fair enough .
15 If we fail to help these children now they will not be able to contribute to the social economic wellbeing of the nation and may cost us in time more social and financial in , in , in the future , so it 's good investment , we 're friendly with them , we , we do sympathize them but it 's only common sense and good investment that we fully recompense that the to the level it should n't be er by the Home Office that is to replace fifteen percent o of seventy five , I think seventy of .
16 erm the women that I talk to in groups up and down this county , I think some are angrier than they were , some are feel more empowered erm if they have if they 've had these sorts of experiences that I was talking about earlier .
17 Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks .
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