Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb -s] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a murky region of the VDU , as if someone has rubbed grease on to it . |
| 2 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 3 | The fact that if somebody 's got parcels they want moving , they have n't got parcels they want moving next Monday , they 've got parcels that want moving today . |
| 4 | And I say if she sits watching Neighbours and pops in to town to book a holiday for Brittany and well I sha n't , I sha n't say |
| 5 | If she continues to pay rent she can stay there . ’ |
| 6 | If she tends to dominate children of her own age and push them round , try to arrange for her to play with older children who will have no trouble in holding their own . |
| 7 | I told her that while her mum 's away if she 's got problems just |
| 8 | come in every day does she , not if she 's got calls to make from home |
| 9 | He wo n't have a woman in the shop if she 's got trousers on her and he sees her . |
| 10 | So I thought well if she 's got plasters |
| 11 | ‘ Teacher , ’ she suggests , ‘ if she 's got qualifications . |
| 12 | And what I suggest we do is seeing Georgina 's here we send you through to see Georgina and she can , if she 's got time , we can briefly run through one or two types . |
| 13 | will will know , and my daughter says , if she 's got children that are a real problem , she 'd want to know what their homes like , and that usually gives an answer , which you too . |
| 14 | She does , and then it just fades into the background she will have to go if she needs to get bread and milk and things tomorrow I 'll have to take her . |
| 15 | Goldie takes one look at Rainbow 's shaggy ankles and sighs ; Rainbow says that if she has to wear tights or stockings , we might as well forget the whole damned thing . |
| 16 | It is incredible also that the Labour party proposes for a widow four different intrusive valuations of her house , and proposes , too , that that same widow should be penalised with higher taxation if she has made improvements to her property . |
| 17 | A woman does , as she gets older , achieve a certain status in the joint family , particularly if she has had sons . |
| 18 | In programming , if something 's called J S P Jackson Struction Pro-level Method , and erm , I think I can introduce a slightly modified way of using it . |
| 19 | Writing in 1783 , long before social anthropology had assumed any coherent shape or even possessed a name , the eighteenth-century French social philosopher , J. J. Rousseau proclaimed our guiding assumption : ‘ One needs to look near at hand if one wants to study men : but to study man one must learn to look from afar : one must first observe differences in order to discover attributes . ’ |
| 20 | My right hon. and hon. Friends have also rightly emphasised that , if one intends to make Community institutions more accountable , one must increase the powers of the European Parliament . |
| 21 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
| 22 | All towns , if one wishes to understand landscapes rather than to gain inner pleasure from beauty , have much to offer , despite Professor Hoskins ' strictures . |
| 23 | Hence the attraction , if one has to do night duty , of weekend work . |
| 24 | If one attempts to judge Mandela by the company he prefers to keep ( a reasonable test of a politician ) the mystery deepens . |
| 25 | I mean I there was a thing I do n't know if anybody 's told Pessaries , Doctor Pessaries , that you could use . |
| 26 | Er but if anybody 's got TESSAs running at ma matur er er er retirement , I 'll inevitably keep them going , cos they 're normally half way through now , some people have made three payments with TESSA , there 's only another two payments to make , that 's only another eighteen hundred and then six hundred in the final year . |
| 27 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
| 28 | But all I can say is we people who see us I mean it 's not as if everybody has to have favours with their wedding , it 's still a fairly new thing . |
| 29 | THE BBC need not worry about its future if it continues to show programmes like Arnold Wesker 's play Roots . |
| 30 | We are prepared to consider the decoy as a permanent option if it helps to slow people down and save lives . ’ |