Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] so if " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureau has said it will consider doing so if its estimates are good enough . |
| 2 | You are not obliged to tell anyone at school of your child 's HIV status , but you may choose to do so if you feel it is best for your child to have a trusted adult who knows the situation . |
| 3 | Maxton led the opposition to this view , claiming not that the Party should disaffiliate immediately , but that it should not hesitate to do so if its freedom to advocate the Socialism in Our Time policy were limited . |
| 4 | We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets . |
| 5 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |
| 6 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 7 | They would not have done so if they had been loose on their mountings . |
| 8 | A variation order or some other delay caused by the client occurs at a time which does not cause additional delay or cost but which would have done so if the contractor had not already been behind schedule . |
| 9 | ‘ I should n't have said so if I was n't . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You would n't have thought so if you 'd heard him shouting after me as I ran away , ’ Sarah said . |
| 11 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 12 | Responding to Heath 's invitation , Wilson wrote that he was not a member of the Conservative Party , or of any political party , and while he was willing to assist the Advisory Committee by participating in the work of its study group on post-war crime , he would not wish to do so if the implication of his participation was to become politically committed . |
| 13 | Nor would she wish to do so if he were to marry Cora-Beth , no matter how nice the girl was . |
| 14 | You would n't have spoken so if he 'd been alive , ’ Miss Phoebe protested . |
| 15 | Mr Janman has asked us to make it clear that , as he wrote in last Saturday 's Sun , he recognises that both crown servants and substantial investors in Britain have an existing right to come here and that though at present he advocates the strict exclusion of all others , he would cease to do so if the Chinese were to attempt ‘ a Tiananmen-style crackdown ’ in Hong Kong in 1997 . |
| 16 | Dara had handled her with humiliating ease , and no doubt could continue to do so if their paths were ever to cross again . |