Example sentences of "if we [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even if we squashed it into the cassette case . |
| 2 | Research would be impossible if we restricted ourselves to this species . |
| 3 | The problem here seems to be this : am I saying that a child is responsible if and only if we declare her to be so , given that she knows what she is doing ? |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 5 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 6 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
| 7 | We would prefer to go back but if we close it for good it would be far better to have no Timex in Dundee than a Timex with scab labour earning scab wages and working under scab conditions . ’ |
| 8 | But even if we restrict ourselves to the ideational or cognitive function of language ( see p 31ff ) it is necessary to distinguish three levels of organization in language . |
| 9 | If we restrict ourselves to puts and calls on a single security there are 4 simple types of investment strategy to look at : |
| 10 | If we restrict ourselves to products with serious and substantial information content , our focus in the computer software sector is largely on educational markets . |
| 11 | If we imagine ourselves to be standing outside time , looking down upon the history of the Universe as if it were a relief map , we get a different perspective . |
| 12 | ‘ If we brought you to where you could see the Zikr , could you pick him out for us ? ’ |
| 13 | He thinks that we will never deal intelligently with these questions if we confuse them with questions about what is good in itself . |
| 14 | If I turn from the P and L Account to the operating cash flow , er you 've got the F R S One cash flow in your er in your pack in the preliminary announcement obviously , but we er do n't find it terribly helpful , it 's not the way we manage the business so I thought you erm would forgive us if we present it in the way we think it 's a little easier to follow . |
| 15 | ‘ Not if we challenge them in their own sphere . ’ |
| 16 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 17 | Anyway I think it might be a giggle , especially if we keep it to ourselves . |
| 18 | Now if we recognize it as that we immediately see that the method is , well why the method works in neural network terms . |
| 19 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
| 20 | We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements . |
| 21 | ‘ If we had him with us , who 'd attack us ? ’ said Twoflower . |
| 22 | pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really . |
| 23 | If we had nothing but nuclear forces , this would not be credible . |
| 24 | Erm if we had something like erm N H four and we had something with a valency of eight , say , which is impossible |
| 25 | So if we had something like that page . |
| 26 | If we had something like Y equals erm X minus ten . |
| 27 | He did n't even knock but just walked right in and went through the house looking to see if we had anything of value to part with before we could receive any relief . |
| 28 | Well if we get them into threes |
| 29 | If we get her on the show that really will be something cos I know she 's shy but well done . |
| 30 | I think if we get everybody by ooh , ten thirty we can have sort of a game of strip Trivial Pursuit . |