Example sentences of "if they [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 2 | Be far better if they told us to do something sensible . |
| 3 | When our children say , as they all do , ‘ but my friends are all doing this ’ , parents invariably say , smartly , ‘ and if they told you to jump off a cliff , would you ? ’ |
| 4 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 5 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |
| 6 | Look out for similar promotions elsewhere and even if there 's no discounts , the right products are still worth having if they help you do a good job . |
| 7 | My elders in the newsroom kept a paternal eye on me , and approved if they saw me working on my Pitman 's . |
| 8 | It would n't look good if they saw me carrying them . ’ |
| 9 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 10 | T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move . |
| 11 | If they saw you shooting Pinochet looking like a dictator they would stand in front of the camera . |
| 12 | I 'm sure that if they saw you cry , I swear to God if they saw you crying things would be slightly different . |
| 13 | I 'm sure that if they saw you cry , I swear to God if they saw you crying things would be slightly different . |
| 14 | I think ( actor 's voice ) people who are not in this great business of ours think the idea of electronic messages flying around is really odd and they may get freaked if some of what is said is a bit inflammatory- maybe more so than if they saw it printed . |
| 15 | Alert them to the fact that we 're on to something , if they know we 've out-guessed them in their stupid game , then we do n't know what they might do . |
| 16 | Johann stopped for a minute , but then he added , ‘ If they know I 've told you this , they 'll kill me . |
| 17 | Will doctors give up trying to save me if they know I want to donate my organs ? |
| 18 | The adventurers can defend themselves or they can flee , but in this case if they flee they get a second Fire Ball on the way out . |
| 19 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 20 | So what if they tell you to sod off and mind your own business ? |
| 21 | If they surrender they expect to be stripped of uniforms and weapons and sent back naked . |
| 22 | If they failed they get told and they do n't get a certificate do they ? |
| 23 | If they lose they get nothing . |
| 24 | If they ask her to do something ! |
| 25 | No , there 's , they say in the brief you 've read it , eh , ok , if they ask you tell them , or show them this form , say what it 's all about , but do n't tell them till after . |
| 26 | So you can see how they as if they ask you to do it over three years or five years or something |
| 27 | They want to know that you know it , and they want to feel confident that if they ask you question you can answer it , but they very much want to know what it does for them and how much it 's going to cost them basically . |
| 28 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 29 | Yeah but I mean , it does n't really matter if they misunderstand you does it ? |
| 30 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |