Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger .
2 If I last long enough to get to the air … .
3 The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself .
4 I definitely would n't have done it if I had n't already released a heap of my own songs .
5 Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big .
6 If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house .
7 Then , fiercely , ‘ But if I had anywhere else to go , I would . ’
8 If I lo , if I sit out there looks , looking sorry for myself then somebody will take me .
9 You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’
10 So if you can get the balance and you can get all four also what 's interesting as well is if you 've got a very low score at something , it may be they think well perhaps I need to develop that , if I do n't apparently learn a lot from getting and having a go , perhaps I 'd actually learn more if I can develop that more enjoyment from that and I can see the benefit from it .
11 What happens if I do n't usually eat or drink foods in one of the sections of Stage II ?
12 He did not ask : how much can I earn in a day if I do as much work as possible ? but how much must I work in order to earn the wage which I earned before and which takes care of my traditional needs ? …
13 It was as if I did n't even exist . ’
14 if I did n't fucking pass .
15 I knew of the need for fibre , fresh fruits and vegetables — even if I did n't much like them — and I knew of the dangers of saturated fats and too much salt .
16 If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis .
17 Once again , I felt that if I did not somehow sublimate my pain , I should be irretrievably lost .
18 How could I say that if I did not really believe God was sovereign when something affected me ?
19 If I accelerate hard then release the throttle suddenly , the transmission makes a clunk .
20 Sometimes I feel as if I have n't even started . ’
21 In fact I 'm playing Xerium , of all things , and blow me down , blow me up if I have n't just found out how to get over the Mountains of Zound at long , long last .
22 ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’
23 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 .
24 If she came out still screaming , she was returned , again without comment .
25 The rest of the room seemed to disappear in a blur as she looked into his face , seeing him as if she 'd never really seen him before .
26 It will be better , perhaps , if she does not wholly know that the will is in question . ’
27 And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant !
28 She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions .
29 If she had n't already had evidence of his contempt for her she would almost be taken in by this new smiling look .
30 So that a knife in Mr Rattrie 's feckless ribs would have cost her less in penal servitude , if she had not actually killed him , than Miss Gemma Dallam 's satin .
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