Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 If I last long enough to get to the air … .
2 If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house .
3 Then , fiercely , ‘ But if I had anywhere else to go , I would . ’
4 Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some .
5 Now , if you came out here to annoy me then … ’
6 From time to time I shall send one or other of them to you with documents to examine , and it would be helpful , I think , if you looked in periodically to study our work in progress . "
7 ‘ People get bored if you try hard enough to tell them how things were . ’
8 " If you have somewhere else to go , you will go . "
9 But if we react too strongly to fear , the brake is applied so hard that we come to a standstill , and fail to grow — which means a wasted lifetime .
10 If we went high enough to use a ‘ chute we 'd be picked up on radar immediately after taking off . ’
11 During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way .
12 If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain .
13 If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society .
14 The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing .
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