Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If everyone takes just a small step forward the overall effect is quite dramatic , ’ said Mr Stocks . |
| 2 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 3 | If someone arrives here from Canada , how can we say that we will consider properly and carefully his application for political asylum ? |
| 4 | But if someone goes past and says , ‘ Hey , look at you — sexy ! ’ then that 's horrible , a real pain , you feel self-conscious . |
| 5 | If someone goes away on holiday , you may well give the key to a neighbour , they probably know a relative of yours or somebody like that that if anything does happen they can contact you or your relative to come down and check the house over . |
| 6 | If someone goes away with good memories of what they have seen and heard then they will come back and bring their family and friends . ’ |
| 7 | But erm it 's just having that one room with a kitchen I think for if someone calls probably you see . |
| 8 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 9 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 10 | If someone shouts loud enough , long enough , about an issue , money will eventually be found . |
| 11 | But if somebody decides differently , there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 12 | A lot in it er but you can learn a lot from it and eventually you 'll be able to do any sort of these pie charts , if somebody says well you 've got four pound eighty to spend , and somebody spends three quarters on this and a tenths on that , two fifteenths on something else and you can add them all up and do a nice chart . |
| 13 | So if somebody writes brilliantly very neatly with no mistakes they might get five extra marks . |
| 14 | This is a prodigiously deep fissure or cave system in the mass if which has still not been fully explored but which by 1979 had been traced by speleologists to a depth of 4,400 feet . |
| 15 | And F/O Johnson says : ‘ If she flies again I should like to take her . ’ |
| 16 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 17 | if she gets together , he |
| 18 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 19 | If she thinks once of Edgar Linton , she thinks a thousand times of me ! |
| 20 | A mother who loves her daughter can experience real anguish on her behalf if she becomes totally dependent upon her , and recognises the limitations this imposes on her social life and activities . |
| 21 | During the construction of the nest , the male is intolerant of his mate and she will be chased away and butted if she becomes too inquisitive . |
| 22 | I 'm not sure she does n't have a funny idea that if she waits long enough people will drift back again , perhaps even Durance . |
| 23 | If she takes longer to complete a circuit , she means the food is further away . |
| 24 | If she takes too much . |
| 25 | There 's no harm if she spoils Olly a bit . |
| 26 | how she speaks no he , he might ban her from the shop if she , if she keeps Well you know she 's called her all sorts of things in front of people . |
| 27 | If she phones then it 'll it , it will be I would n't take it unless it 's on my terms . |
| 28 | A MASSIVE 86 per cent of Britons think Fergie should lose her title if she separates permanently from Andrew , said an ICM poll for the Sunday Express . |
| 29 | " And another thing — I mean her to eat it if she sits there till her bedtime . " |
| 30 | If she stays here like as not you 'll lose her anyway . |