Example sentences of "if we [vb base] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Well I think I 'll go round actually cos they 're queuing up , we want to go to the grocers so er if we go up The Avenue we shall just come past the front of it .
2 Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four
3 How can they ensure that they can be effective , that is , that they can actually provide services as well as providing assessments ? ii If we go along the road of having dementia teams then what is the best management structure ; for such a team ?
4 Obviously if we close up the ocean again , the resemblances would not be so startling .
5 A slightly different picture emerges if we sift out the figures relating to personal injury negligence actions alone — the category most discussed in relation to the efficacy of settlements .
6 If we walk round the towns and villages we will not find the acquisitiveness and competitiveness of modernity .
7 if we lose out the argument that we should put in for some increase next year , and and we think it 's going to be very difficult to sustain an argument ,
8 If we switch off the voltage the current will disappear after some delay .
9 And if we cut down the number of our operations — for the part he 's making it would n't be worth automating .
10 So if we cut out the one
11 I think we 've got ta be careful , if we cut out the breaks , you see
12 He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’
13 If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it
14 It is possible to intensify poetry 's power over time if we take on the implications of Rosenblatt 's transactional theory , which is well described in Benton et al .
15 So far if we take on the ninety ninety two figures we attended something like eight hundred bonfires .
16 If we take off the khat … ’ said the air hostess , drawing her finger across her throat .
17 If we take off the reedbed 's top 30cm of vegetation — just enough so that we do not kill off the reeds — and put in some new dykes to give a good water flow we will restore the reedbed to its former glory . ’
18 If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us .
19 If we pick up the results , other teams wo n't matter , ’ he said .
20 If we add up the masses of all the stars that we can see in our galaxy and other galaxies , the total is less than one hundredth of the amount required to halt the expansion of the universe , even for the lowest estimate of the rate of expansion .
21 If we carry on the way we are there can only be one outcome and that is success .
22 About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’
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