Example sentences of "if [noun] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 it really was So erm but I do n't know , I , I think if Jim got a ticket , if he got two tickets and he said do you wan na come ?
2 If Armstrong has a disadvantage , then it 's that he has n't got a passenger seat .
3 Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday .
4 Only if sheep graze a combination of rough grassland and heather moor will the grassland slowly extend at the expense of moorland .
5 If Dean had a motive for doing it he did not say what it was .
6 If Ian had a fault it was over-indulging his children .
7 If Hereford have a matchwinner , it 's top scorer , Simon Brain , 10 goals this season .
8 If Marcus had a dog , Ludens was that animal .
9 And if Aherne has a criticism it is on the standards of school and club coaching .
10 If Bleach have a problem , it 's the way they under-sell themselves so often .
11 Yeo refused to rule out further statutory directions from the government if monitoring revealed a need for them .
12 And if parliament passes a law
13 If Mimms had a fiver for every time his errors have been exposed to ridicule on TV , his bank balance would rival that of Rovers ' multi-millionaire tycoon owner , Jack Walker .
14 Only keep the function in-house if headquarters wins a contract .
15 The Hanson style can , of course , go wrong if headquarters misjudges a business and pushes its bosses to pursue targets that are too demanding .
16 If WEU had a role , it was to ensure the closest possible cooperation within NATO , and although it did play a limited role in the Saar settlement , it remained essentially a paper organisation .
17 If WEU has a role to play in integration , that kind of defence collaboration is what it is peculiarly able to do .
18 If Andy thought a drawing by Paul Klee looked ‘ sort of funny ’ , he said so .
19 If Pickering survives a fitness test on a twisted ankle , coach Peter Walsh is sure his fierce Fijian-born prop will blast holes in the Trophy favourites ' defence .
20 If Pickering survives a fitness test on a twisted ankle , coach Peter Walsh is sure his fierce Fijian-born prop will blast a hole or two in the Trophy favourites ' defence .
21 If Edward wanted a protector , the duke was , indeed , the inevitable candidate .
22 Certainly one of the shakiest parts of Mancini 's account is his attempt to explain why , if Edward wanted a protector , the council sought to overturn his wishes .
23 If Edward wanted a protector , the duke was , indeed , the inevitable candidate .
24 Certainly one of the shakiest parts of Mancini 's account is his attempt to explain why , if Edward wanted a protector , the council sought to overturn his wishes .
25 If stagflation becomes a problem , then demand management policies ( both fiscal and monetary ) should be used to eliminate demand-deficient unemployment , with back-up ‘ supply-side ’ policies being used to cure the remaining unemployment .
26 In fact it got to the stage that if Scott had a horse in a bumper at all , it was backed favourite almost immediately .
27 Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved .
28 I have often wondered if Levin made a 12-string guitar and if so , where I could lay my hands on one .
29 Just at present it did n't seem to matter if Camille missed a day of school .
30 If B brings a claim against A for breach of contract , A can make a counterclaim for indemnity , and the indemnity will extinguish any liability A incurs .
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