Example sentences of "if they [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If if they put up dwellings . |
| 2 | The Government must exercise the wisdom of Solomon : although they must not put too much money into that sector , if they put in too little , the owners of care homes will tend to withdraw the little extra facilities that are so enjoyed by the elderly people . |
| 3 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 4 | Answer — not if they end up with no males . |
| 5 | You 'll need to get agreement from everyone that if they end up in the minority they will bide by the majority decision . |
| 6 | Two mini Margis in the stalls are the target of most of the ad libs , and they respond as if they grew up with the star . |
| 7 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 8 | If they came round |
| 9 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 10 | I expect they 'd have a giggle about our house , if they came round here . ’ |
| 11 | If they came in , with food or to check us over , we always had to put on our hoods first . ’ |
| 12 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 13 | I had to try and get a bit of kip on the crumbling sofa with a torch in one hand and a big bit of four by two in the other , ready to whack any of the mice if they came out to get us . |
| 14 | If they came out . |
| 15 | Not only did they get a promise from the secretary of the men 's union that they would be paid full wages by the union if they came out on strike ( unusual , if not unprecedented for non-members ) but the agreement subsequently signed with Neill 's management included some improvements in their piece rates . |
| 16 | Before a Berlin run the crews were always very subdued , and when they came back they were exhausted — if they came back . |
| 17 | Mr Dicketts was ‘ happy to comply even more ’ and confessed : ‘ If they came back now we 'd probably feel much happier . ’ |
| 18 | If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ? |
| 19 | But if they went on meeting every day , their relationship must develop : he could not stop himself . |
| 20 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 21 | Public sector negotiators knew the consequences if they went over that limit , though in practice the Treasury might relent a little with groups like nurses and fund part of the extra settlement . |
| 22 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 23 | Even if they went out the league they 'd get that number . |
| 24 | They would n't be able to afford to keep the ground on if they went out |
| 25 | I do n't know if they went about with her . |
| 26 | Well , I think , I do n't know if they went back to the pits and sort of left , but he did n't want to stay there and and got this job as a gamekeeper . |
| 27 | Because if they went back they 'd have to have the electric chair and they do n't want the electric chair or the , cos that 's what they think cos they 've done so much . |
| 28 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 29 | But they should put in little sort of qualifications like er er they gave people land and if they went off to fight then it would be guaranteed that the land would be tilled . |
| 30 | It would be seven and sixpence for the consultation if they went down to the surgery . |