Example sentences of "if they [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 2 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
| 3 | Yes , if they put you in a |
| 4 | cunt , wonder what that would be if they put it in a dictionary . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 6 | If they saw him in a play , they saw a middle-aged man pretending to be young , in an outdated vehicle that bore as much relation to their reality as crinolines and penny-farthings . |
| 7 | One of the conspirators would ring the foreman to tip him off that the shop steward could be caught red-handed stealing company property if they searched him at the gate . |
| 8 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 9 | and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be |
| 10 | If they know nothing upon the question , is that nothingness still to be respected ? ’ |
| 11 | If they know everything about a job then they may well be able to fix the problems for you . |
| 12 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 13 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 14 | He may have shown indifference with his remark that Christians need not be ashamed if they knew nothing of the number and properties of the elements . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 16 | Of course , if they get me on the phone , I 'm lost . |
| 17 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 18 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
| 19 | so it 's bad enough if they gather them in the gathering them in the barrel like , the barrel bit , but not the sort of |
| 20 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 21 | If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song . |
| 22 | Why do n't they have a big old disaster and see if they feature it on the news |
| 23 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
| 24 | ‘ If they locate it outside a house , then they establish when it is there , and prepare an attack for that period . ’ |
| 25 | And I 'm sure they 'll pick them up if they see them in the |
| 26 | It was cheaper than the cinema , only a few pennies , and young people could sometimes get in for nothing if they attached themselves to an adult . |
| 27 | IF THEY find themselves in a tangle at an anti-social hour , the United Nations men now taking over in Somalia will at least have the chance of talking it over with their masters in New York — as well as with their unofficial masters in Washington . |
| 28 | Mrs Anne Lennox , whose husband , Sqn Ldr Garry Lennox , was shot down and killed over Iraq , said that the three RAF widows would have to undergo ‘ demeaning means tests ’ years from now if they wanted something from the fund . |
| 29 | Does that mean they would have if they have it at the ? |
| 30 | This was his perfect nightmare , to be facing scabby , pock-marked men like these , who had nothing to lose if they gutted him on the spot . |