Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] not [adv] " in BNC.

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1 If yours has n't already been converted , it 's very simple to get it done .
2 The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself .
3 I definitely would n't have done it if I had n't already released a heap of my own songs .
4 Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big .
5 Is it really any more rational to deny rather than affirm — am I , for example , sure that I mean by God what a religious person does , because if I do not then my dismissal of God 's existence rests on a logical non sequitur .
6 You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’
7 I hope to see most of you personally over the next few weeks but if I do n't then can I say ‘ Thanks ’ and ‘ All the Best for a healthy and prosperous future . ’
8 So if you can get the balance and you can get all four also what 's interesting as well is if you 've got a very low score at something , it may be they think well perhaps I need to develop that , if I do n't apparently learn a lot from getting and having a go , perhaps I 'd actually learn more if I can develop that more enjoyment from that and I can see the benefit from it .
9 What happens if I do n't usually eat or drink foods in one of the sections of Stage II ?
10 It was as if I did n't even exist . ’
11 if I did n't fucking pass .
12 I knew of the need for fibre , fresh fruits and vegetables — even if I did n't much like them — and I knew of the dangers of saturated fats and too much salt .
13 If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis .
14 Once again , I felt that if I did not somehow sublimate my pain , I should be irretrievably lost .
15 How could I say that if I did not really believe God was sovereign when something affected me ?
16 Sometimes I feel as if I have n't even started . ’
17 In fact I 'm playing Xerium , of all things , and blow me down , blow me up if I have n't just found out how to get over the Mountains of Zound at long , long last .
18 ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’
19 Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some .
20 It will be better , perhaps , if she does not wholly know that the will is in question . ’
21 And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant !
22 She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions .
23 If she had n't already had evidence of his contempt for her she would almost be taken in by this new smiling look .
24 But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach .
25 So that a knife in Mr Rattrie 's feckless ribs would have cost her less in penal servitude , if she had not actually killed him , than Miss Gemma Dallam 's satin .
26 To add to W. 's problems , as if she had not enough already , the clinical psychologist treating W. left the area in March 1991 , W. then being nearly 15 , and was not replaced for five months .
27 If she had not so foolishly thrown away her life , perhaps she , too , might have worn such a gown !
28 In the case of a woman who elects not to pay the full National Insurance contribution the full National Insurance benefit to which she would have been entitled if she had not so elected is deducted from the sickness allowance .
29 If she had not quite the fire and the golden glow of her ancestors , nobody remarked it .
30 She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time .
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