Example sentences of "if [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 2 | It was too dark in the small room to see by her expression if Isabel remembered also , but he knew she did . |
| 3 | He explained his change of mind by pointing to the danger that if Stockholm went ahead without the Allied socialists , the case for the Allied war effort would be lost by default : |
| 4 | If Germany goes ahead , it will grow even nastier . |
| 5 | The feeling that if William went now , by himself , and she stayed , that would be it . |
| 6 | It was all she wanted to know really , the truth — that if Fernando had truly loved her he would have moved heaven and earth to get her back . |
| 7 | If Fernando had ever … but he had n't … and that was the pity of it all . |
| 8 | Our teacher then was R. H. S. Crossman , and the subject , ‘ If Plato Lived Today ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ If Bernard gets away after tipping off Bailey he 's certain to be given a new identity by the CIA . |
| 10 | If Bernard came across with anything good , then he would go to the archives and read the files himself . |
| 11 | So basically if Lincoln draw tonight then they 'll finish top and Mansfield will be second , if er Lincoln win they 'll be top and Mansfield will be second . |
| 12 | If Mola got there first , not only would he snatch that honour from him , but it might also mean the end of the war and his return to the relative anonymity of normal army routine . |
| 13 | ‘ If Molly comes home to this mess at Christmas , then I 'm sorry for her , ’ asserted Mrs Tilling . |
| 14 | If Beatrix had ever mentioned knowing somebody in Paris , it might be different , but she never did . |
| 15 | Indeed , even if Rennenkampf marched directly south and joined Samsonov , the Germans would be heavily outnumbered . |
| 16 | ‘ If Frankie had already signed , then he would have been aboard Musicale today , ’ said Sangster . |
| 17 | But he thought that it was as if Fael-Inis had somehow taken a shard of pure light and splintered it , and then scattered it about them . |
| 18 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 19 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 20 | If David had ever learned of the things Phipps had said to her , he would probably … |
| 21 | If Montini had immediately succeeded Pius XII , it is unlikely that he would have called a Council . |
| 22 | Claude Simon 's Les Géorgiques ( 1981 ) was seen by several critics as a rejection of the extreme textual materialism of his more recent fiction , as if Simon had finally shaken off the pernicious influence of Jean Ricardou . |
| 23 | A British expert on Ukrainian military matters , Roy Allison , from Birmingham university , says that , if Ukraine faced only the three military districts in European Russia , the balance of equipment and weapons would be three-to one in Ukraine 's favour . |
| 24 | The only mail I get from Czechoslovakia is a junk mail actually , it 's all about some wine club that I never want to belong to , but erm , if Darwin had only opened it , er do n't throw it away , it could be , it could be th it could be the paper from that will save you infinite trouble . |
| 25 | If Darwin showed biologically that evolution was nature 's way of natural selection and continual improvement , he was backed up on the social level by all the great social theorists who taught one version or another of perpetual progress . |
| 26 | If Cipriani achieved little in the way of goals , he did , as C.L.R.James put it in his biography of the man — ‘ expand our conception of West Indian public personalities ’ . |
| 27 | Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable . |
| 28 | However , I believe that if England falter seriously in their next seven games — all World Cup ties — and look like failing to qualify , then Taylor will consider the honourable move of resigning . |
| 29 | Ukraine has threatened to charge world prices for transporting Russian gas to export markets in Europe if Russia goes ahead with charging world prices from February 1 . |
| 30 | so the most-talked-about terrace-player gets another half-page over here — if Frank play well in the US that might make it easier for him to get a new club . |