Example sentences of "if [pron] do [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't know , I want to find out if I do really believe what I say I do and if I want the kind of life I say I do , and the only way to do that seems to be to get right away and try a straight career for a bit , just to see how I react . ’ |
2 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
3 | If she does though mind she 'll try harder next year . |
4 | If she did any work around the place , there was no evidence of it on the desk . |
5 | So if you do just measure the angle they say , Find the gradient and erm find the the angle . |
6 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |
7 | If you do much watering by can a long way from a tap , get a matching pair , each holding 2 gallons . |
8 | So you 're gon na have to if you do any work for L E As |
9 | But then you come to the problem , erm , because for ninety four five , erm , the formula suggests that we would need less staff , that might seem a bit odd but the , the reason is that if you do indeed bring your target times down , then the amount of work which your passing over into the next year is er considerably less , erm than the amount of work which you passed over into this year , |
10 | If you do inadvertently end up with very little airbrake , or with excess speed , do n't be afraid to hold off slightly higher than normal while you get rid of some of the speed . |
11 | But I understand , and somebody here will no doubt correct me , that there is research to show that if you do actually walk about with a Sony Walkman , go to noisy discos , and then go into a noisy working environment , that by the age of thirty you can lose up to a third of your hearing . |
12 | If you do then tell me the truth . |
13 | If you 've got no choice but to get out and walk then you are gon na have to do that , and that 's all very well being a day like today , where it 's not pouring down with rain er , you 're not walking in a pitch black area , but if you do suddenly change that and you put it into those sort of , well that sort of scenario you 'll find it 's very , very , frightening . |
14 | If you did simply have a duff batch , try another dealer and see how you get on . |
15 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
16 | But if you did genuinely make that statement it 's more likely to be true if it 's against your interest , rather than for your interest . |
17 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
18 | so I , I mean I suppose in a sense it would be good if you did actually change something but that 's not entirely necessary for me . |
19 | Of course there 's a further complicating factor that if we do actually put the breaks on , people may either lose interest or go |
20 | if we do actually find out . |
21 | If we do indeed reap what we sow , then it seems sensible to take a careful look at our packet of seeds — particularly in those areas of our lives which go either particularly well or badly . |
22 | Well if if we do only get four people it 's going to be more is n't it ? |
23 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
24 | I think if we if we if we did actually look around long and hard rather than superficially at what we 've got out in the yard , then it 's ever so easy to criticize . |
25 | Might I just add that if anybody does actually pay their fee by cheques erm please make it to the right department er as as Tom will give you erm the co the correct er name for for your cheque . |
26 | Another approach has been to consider how a monster or family of monsters , if they did indeed exist in the loch , might be able to survive in a freshwater environment . |
27 | Sunderland have lost their last five League matches , and there is a growing danger that the FA Cup finalists might find themselves in deep relegation trouble if they do no concentrate on the matter in hand Second Division survival . |
28 | If they do indeed oscillate between generations , though , they must have mass . |
29 | If they do really emanate from a Z o the electron and positron should together carry energy equal to the particle 's mass , and this seems to be the case . |
30 | The great stations stand , if they do still stand , as towering monuments to that belief , public meeting-places where faith in the perfectibility of man by his own ingenuity and the blessing of a divine providence was daily affirmed . |