Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I hold back the tears , the feeling becomes locked or blocked in my body . |
| 2 | And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault . |
| 3 | Would you mind if I looked down the list ? |
| 4 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 5 | Will these people notice if I turn up the sound ? ’ |
| 6 | Do you mind if I turn down the gas fire ? ’ |
| 7 | You 'd kill me if I blew up the school ? |
| 8 | If I walked back the way we 'd come , there 'd be a bus stop , would n't there ? |
| 9 | ‘ Neither have I any time to waste , so you must excuse me if I cut out the preliminaries . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do you mind if I look over the place ? |
| 11 | I 've reached a stage where I ca n't be bothered with a lot of these guys , but if I rule out the ones who take drugs from my circle of friends I will be left with literally no one to socialise with . |
| 12 | I hope that I shall not be retiring too soon , but if I see out the rest of my working life as a Member of the House , I shall retire with a pension that should look after me comfortably . |
| 13 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 14 | She was terrified that if she poured out the tale to her husband now , he would be filled with doubts as to the extent of her previous involvement with Davis . |
| 15 | When Mrs.McNaughtan noticed a pencilled note inside the cover saying ‘ fore-edge painting ’ , she knew that if she spread out the gilt edges of the book 's pages , we would see a picture , as indeed we did to our delight . |
| 16 | If you pick up the phone and ring to get seats here you will very often find that you ca n't get through . |
| 17 | So resolute are they at keeping hold of one another that even if you pick up the mother , her babies will still hang on to her in a wriggling furry rope . |
| 18 | The idea is that , if you pick out the best bits from the past , combine them , mix and match them , dust them down and restore them fondly , then the result will be something better . |
| 19 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 20 | If you ask somebody what 's the explanation for a fact you may have noticed if you walked down the Strand here just from the School , if you 're observant , I 'm sure you 've , you 've all instantly noticed as you walked by , that Strand Street , which is a short street that , sorry , I 'm , Savoy Street , which is a short street that leads off the Strand into the Savoy Hotel , is an exception to the rule , that in England you drive on the left , because in Stra in Savoy Street , you drive on the right . |
| 21 | It 's quite usual to pay a deposit to show that you intend to go ahead with the deal and if you back out the repairer is entitled to keep the money . |
| 22 | He wonders if you filled in the forms correctly . ’ |
| 23 | If you set up the water to the right parameters , there is no reason why you should no be able to keep this species successfully . |
| 24 | If you went up the railway embankment at night , he said , you could look straight into the window of the room Uncle Titch had given her and see her getting undressed . |
| 25 | If you get up the P.E . |
| 26 | if you bring up the erm thingamy |
| 27 | If you put on the pink and rode to hounds like English gentlefolk these days , some wee feller with an Armalite would blow your head off . |
| 28 | It always seems to me that you 've got a set of results , and if you come to write them up , and you know they 're obviously wrong , you 're going to get a lot more marks if you put down the right values — or what should be the right values — so you end up fiddling things eventually . |
| 29 | If you , if you put down the letter for people like this , sort of , I would of done one of two things , I 'd would get really nark about that and the way they give you what you want |
| 30 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |