Example sentences of "if we [verb] n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It was as if we had n't even parted really . |
2 | See , you see it 's okay this guy being funny like that but we er we , I think we 've got every right to be D' ya mean if we had n't actually have been starting the work , heaven knows how long it would have been before we 'd actually got the invoices paid ! |
3 | Erm Hopefully we would be better prepared next time , and that we can get in generators quickly if we do n't already have them on standby . |
4 | Nevertheless sometimes it clearly has and other times it clearly has n't , so there does seem to be a line there , even if we do n't yet know , we certainly have to draw it . |
5 | We act as a kind of general staff in the war against crime , and we co-ordinate , if we do n't exactly control , the activities of all police forces in the country , particularly when they involve liaison with other services or government departments . |
6 | But in the excitement of discovering these wondrous things we shall be poorer if we do n't also give a thought now and again to the pear and the kitchen crock . |
7 | Everything 'll last a lifetime according to you if we do n't fucking use it ! |
8 | Therefore if we do n't actually want to live in the same place as the residents , which I certainly would n't want to do , right . |
9 | We build at getting better things , where if we do n't actually watch it , we build at getting worse at things . |
10 | Because , if we do n't actually ventilate the building then , we 're not actually gon na solve the problem . |
11 | On the question of the public conveniences erm I feel there 's been a lot of discussion about this , this kind of issue and I feel that what we 've got now is a good agreement erm , we 've got still providing a good level of service with attendance at the central I do n't like referring to conveniences , at the time that they are most needed and I think that now I would n't like to see us go without that if we do n't really need to . |
12 | They 're apt to incapacitate us in the present if we do n't vigilantly sweep them away . ’ |
13 | Even if we do n't quite achieve it by March 31 , we will have significantly reduced the number of patients waiting 12 months or more , ’ said Mr Flook . |
14 | In the computer graphics of Tron ( 1982 ) we are right down on the board with the players of video games , even if we do n't quite share their viewpoint ; the motorcycle shots , much quoted , show how exhilarating rapid movement along wholly imaginary perspectives can be . |
15 | More likely , once established as a member of the literati and the venerable ‘ June 20th Group ’ , she felt a need to stress her difference from them — as if we did n't already know . |
16 | The message of the Rio summit has been ( as if we did n't already know it ) that this is a small and fragile world and where conservation is concerned , everything is everybody 's business and that does n't just apply to the white rhino but to the artistic patrimony as well . |
17 | IF WE did n't already have a Vibes single of the week , this would be it . |