Example sentences of "if [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could do a better job if I knew more about … |
| 2 | I could do a better job if I knew more about |
| 3 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 4 | So if I know less about it than I should , whose fault is that ? |
| 5 | What would Araminta Merchiston say if she knew just how far above her in station was this obviously despised new companion ? |
| 6 | However , if you know exactly what you need to be eating it is far easier to ensure that your body gets what it needs . |
| 7 | You feel more confident do n't you in a group situation if you know exactly what people er er know or what they do n't know , cos there 's nothing worse is n't there than to go in and thinking they may already know this , I might be going in an teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here , I 'm not sure what they know about this . |
| 8 | You feel much more confident do n't you if you know exactly what people need from you . |
| 9 | If you know just the title but not the author 's name , you may be out of luck . |
| 10 | If you feel constantly anxious and frightened about food , if you can not take pleasure in eating or in your body , if you know deep down that something is wrong , then it is irrelevant what you weigh or whether your immediate health is at risk ; you should take yourself and your feelings seriously , and look for help . |
| 11 | ‘ If you know so much , why are you asking me ? ’ |
| 12 | I tell ya if you can , if you know anywhere that 's got one |
| 13 | ‘ Well , Michael , if you know then it 's pointless me droning on now , is n't it ? ’ |
| 14 | If you know enough about a task , you can always translate it into an exercise in theorem proving . |
| 15 | You would n't want to start watching one of those awful old adventure films you like so much if you knew exactly what was going to happen , would you ? |
| 16 | ‘ But even if you knew beforehand who was going to get — say — the fifth plate , how could you put poison on it and not on the other plates ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Then , if you knew so much , I wish you 'd warned me that we were about to change direction quite so abruptly . ’ |
| 18 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 19 | If you had looked carefully , or if you knew enough , you would appreciate that these are , in fact , specially designed pilot 's boots which , with the aid of a couple of zips , convert into what was doubtless , in the forties , a pretty neat-looking pair of shoes . |
| 20 | and er , very often if you knew somewhat , you know , obviously modern it would , it would spoil it because you 're there |
| 21 | They must be able to demonstrate , for example , how a science teacher would be better equipped to understand children 's difficulties , if s/he knew more about dialects , registers or the nature of language . |
| 22 | It would be much easier to begin to resolve this argument if we knew more about how advertising works , and if we could be much more sophisticated than we are about how to relate target audiences and purchasing patterns to advertising . |
| 23 | ‘ But if we 're going to spend the evening together I thought it would help if we knew more about each other 's backgrounds . ’ |
| 24 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 25 | I do n't think it 's too much to say that erm , if they knew now what er , if they knew now what er , they know then what they know now , they 'd probably never have embarked upon er , upon the project . |
| 26 | I do n't think it 's too much to say that erm , if they knew now what er , if they knew now what er , they know then what they know now , they 'd probably never have embarked upon er , upon the project . |
| 27 | Thus Hume does not sharply distinguish between interpreting moral judgements as expressing one 's own feelings , stating one 's own feelings , and suggesting how men in general would feel about a situation if they knew enough . |
| 28 | ‘ It was as if it knew exactly where to go . ’ |
| 29 | A tight knot of apprehension made her frown and , as if he knew just what she was thinking , he got to his feet . |
| 30 | Hammond was looking down , his shoulders hunched forward , as if he knew already what was in the second file . |