Example sentences of "[verb] if [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms . |
| 2 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 3 | Er yes if you know if knocked the table any time they fall over , liable to set fire you see with the paraffin and that . |
| 4 | But if loving parents freely admit that they would have chosen to let the child die if given the choice , it is clear that the vast majority of parents would take this view if given an option by the doctor concerned . |
| 5 | POLICE gave warning yesterday that a scientific instrument in a car stolen in Lanarkshire , could blind if handled the wrong way . |
| 6 | Substantial differentials can , however , be observed if comparing the top 20% of the population with the bottom 20% on a scale of ‘ occupational prestige . ’ |
| 7 | Asked if closing the airport cost 76,000 dollars , the spokesman said : ‘ It 's the first I 've heard of that report but obviously , I mean , it 's something we regret . |
| 8 | Though it was willing to assist if required the government emphasized that it would play no part in the proceedings of the Convention . |
| 9 | 6 ) My baby at about 3 to 4 months was fully breastfed when he started a feeding for a couple of minutes and then screaming still obviously hungry but still screaming if offered the breast again . |
| 10 | Road pricing would soon fail if paying the charges could be as painlessly disregarded as parking fines . |
| 11 | Given the centrality of this theme of the life study , the question which is raised by the exhibition but which is left unanswered is , how does if affect the viewing/appreciation of the image ? |
| 12 | She had also wondered if seeing the places he went might make her feel closer to him , but it had n't . |
| 13 | Ask each one of the family to make a list of how they spend their time and what changes they would like to make if given the chance . |
| 14 | Alice , who had several times caught Tom looking admiringly at her while they were coming up there in the tube , and could not forget the way he had held out his hand to her while they sang the duet , wondered if having the room next to his was a good idea . |
| 15 | I think Wilko would accept if offerred the job . |