Example sentences of "if they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost .
32 Research enables people to be aware of different ways of conceiving of the familiar world and , if they act on the new conception , to alter or extend their customary ideas and practices .
33 Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted .
34 One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register .
35 It ought to be put on cos it , if they rise to the top
36 He also removes old teeth if they interfere with the bit .
37 If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky .
38 And certainly if they come for interview , if they apply to the university , they get a very good chance of entrance .
39 If they go into the market place where they can command personal insight of a Christian way of life then they will move with the times .
40 if , if , if they go into the Common Market rate , EE standard or summat it 's bloody new job we 'd have to be , got ta go to Blackpool this year
41 Over the last fourteen years forty two million pounds and if they go on the way their going on and the way they 're talking it 's all gon na be for nicks nowt .
42 There are voices you turn to as a friend , and you do n't just turn your back on your friends if they go off the rails .
43 Or if they go to the toilet and take just a little longer .
44 Each group has got a seminar organizer in that group , so anybody with any particular problems , if they go to the seminar organizer , he or she will try their best to sort it out .
45 and they , if they go round the wrong way , oh all right you 're out , now we try again , and
46 Sore throats better for warm drinks , especially if they go from the right to the left side .
47 But Guatemalans can enjoy their freedom only if they stick to the unwritten rules .
48 If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond .
49 If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond .
50 Organ transplants are quite different and , as a matter of law , doctors would have to secure the consent of someone with the right to consent on behalf of a donor under the age of 18 or , if they relied upon the consent of the minor himself or herself , be satisfied that the minor was ‘ Gillick competent ’ in the context of so serious a procedure which could not benefit the minor .
51 ‘ And if they flinch at the sight of the salt , there are persuasions I can use . ’
52 In sum , compared with homes , schools provide a significantly reduced opportunity for children to learn through talk with an adult , and in those conversations that do occur , children find themselves forced into the respondent role , their contributions for the most part only being valued if they contribute to the teacher 's predetermined line of thought .
53 Improving life expectancy gave them every hope of doing so , especially if they belonged to the rising middle-class .
54 Initially , if they belonged to the Church of England , they were likely to be of the evangelical tendency so disturbing to comfortable Anglican parsons and laymen .
55 But the pensioner 's death means that Andrew , his wife Janice and son Gareth , 12 , face eviction as squatters if they stay in the house at Margam , South Wales , said Port Talbot council .
56 Therapy teaches clients that feelings can be tolerated and will fade away if they stay in the feared or difficult situation .
57 Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job .
58 In response , the largest bird importer in the US , A.A. Pare , has argued that " What we 're doing is salvaging the birds … if they stay in the jungle , they 're not going to have it in the next five years …
59 If they stay in the lower divisions they 'll have to eliminate seating in seven years time .
60 It may be ‘ accidental that there is no Beaverbrook or Rothermere ’ but it is more likely that they would encounter an enormous backlash if they trespassed into the formal world of politics .
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