Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , one British study ( Brody and Tarling , 1990 ) concluded that we could have a substantial effect on the crime rate if everyone convicted of an indictable offence received a mandatory 19-month prison sentence . |
| 2 | No one knows what society would be like if everyone acted on the advice of those who openly advocate it . |
| 3 | Can I ask if everyone sitting around the table has now or has had access to plan policy guidance note number twelve ? |
| 4 | Even if nothing came of the interviews , he could work for his father . |
| 5 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 6 | I think I 'll I 'll not wait for Er if nothing comes in the post tomorrow I wo n't wait for the conference centre to get in touch with me , I 'll write to them tomorrow and drop it in . |
| 7 | Further , it was hoped that if nothing happened during the trial which newspapers could turn into titillating copy for their readers , then there would be less incentive for the papers to give widespread coverage . |
| 8 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 9 | If I stuck with the basic training and did well I too could be one of them . |
| 10 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 11 | If I disappear to the Bahamas for a holiday . |
| 12 | A married 32-year-old store manager says : ‘ If I chanced upon an encounter , I think that maybe a couple of years ago , I would n't have worn one . |
| 13 | Now what if I support in the main the aims of the Act , there are one or two areas I think that some things are not a good idea . |
| 14 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 15 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 16 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
| 17 | I like it brown you know , if I go to a party . |
| 18 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |
| 19 | They have threatened to beat me up , if I go to the police . |
| 20 | ‘ If I go to the cinema I 'll have a panic attack and everyone will want to have me thrown out . ’ |
| 21 | If I go to the car , he 'll be waiting . |
| 22 | First I think that if I go to the car , he 'll be waiting , so I wo n't go to the car . |
| 23 | ‘ They 've been bringing their dogs to do their business in my front garden , and if I go to the council , d' you know what they 'll say ? |
| 24 | If I go to the market to buy a dozen eggs I pay the full price there and then . |
| 25 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
| 26 | Cos if I go to the college I might be able to get a flat . |
| 27 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
| 28 | If I go at the end of the season , then I will have done my best , and can hold my head high . ’ |
| 29 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 30 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |