Example sentences of "if we [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As a last resort MOD might tell us if we filled in the right forms .
2 Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four
3 He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’
4 So far if we take on the ninety ninety two figures we attended something like eight hundred bonfires .
5 If we take off the reedbed 's top 30cm of vegetation — just enough so that we do not kill off the reeds — and put in some new dykes to give a good water flow we will restore the reedbed to its former glory . ’
6 In the echo of the receding explosions and the sulphurous cordite of the rockfall , I said to Steve we might live longer if we abseiled down the rocky left side of the icefield , well away from the fall line .
7 About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’
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