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

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1 if everyone prefers x to y , then society must also prefer x to y ( the weak Pareto principle ) ;
2 ‘ I 'll forgive you this time but I 'm warnin' yow , my gel , if I catch yow with that stuff agen I 'll cut all your hair off an' leave yer bald , and I 'll put this strap–across yer back ! ’
3 I just thought , if it was any good if I took Bryony to the hairdresser with me and you took Richard and James
4 and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement .
5 I mean you may not have that much to compare it with , but certainly in my experience , is that January if I took people round the in January , erm , you sort of made excuses for it .
6 Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary .
7 Instead of showing me the door , he roared with laughter : ‘ So what if I clothe gangsters on the screen ?
8 If I became part of his fantasy landscape a certain amount of security , great pleasure even , was possible , at the cost of feeling split and unknowable afterwards and unsure whether I as I felt I really was had experienced anything .
9 I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme .
10 It 's Mark fault though , if I kept hold of it !
11 But I was thinking if we you know , if I knew sort of what the sort of philosophy was behind it I might be able to incorporate that into , the office meetings and say we were having team briefings .
12 But I , I say if I get sh publicity I er if I say do , if I say cos we have n't got a premium lager on draft so if I stick Stella on draught
13 ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’
14 If I get word to British Naval Intelligence , they 'll see you 're escorted safely back to England . ’
15 I 'll have some wonderful horses soon , if I get Vulcan from your dad .
16 So erm I 'm just hoping I 'm not gon na get an infection in it cos infection in it if I get blood in me eye .
17 They take out anything that can identify you or me erm if you know if I said sort of George or gave an address or a phone number they that would be chopped out .
18 How would you feel if er a if I said sort of describe how you feel on a scale of one to ten ?
19 Take the following exchange : ‘ You do n't mind if I use things from my act to illustrate points ? ’
20 Senna , in Adelaide for Sunday 's Australian Grand Prix , said : ‘ If I join Nigel in leaving , it will be a tremendous loss to Formula One .
21 ‘ Would it be easier to accept help , Fran , if I set terms of payment ?
22 What would you do if I set fire to the new , to the shirt ?
23 internal bleeding , right so the internal bleeding sometimes shows itself externally , for example if I had damage to my lungs or severe damage to the inside of my lungs I 'd cough up blood and that 's in , what do you think ?
24 If I had loads of room in house I 'd put them all together .
25 Put it this way , if I had children of my own at school , I would be very , very worried if they had a teacher like me .
26 When I said I was , she asked if I had access to the satellite telephone , the only means of making an international call since the phone system had been destroyed in January .
27 But rather than see people going without , erm if I had access to good clothing , I did n't see why I should n't give it to them .
28 I would buy it myself if I had room for it . ’
29 If I had trouble with the health unions on contracting out , it was nothing compared with my problems on manpower numbers .
30 Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it .
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