Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] not make " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry if I do not make sense . ’ |
| 2 | And a very unnatural mother I should think myself if I did not make a push to secure it for Gerald ! ’ |
| 3 | I apologise if I did not make myself clear . |
| 4 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 5 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 6 | In fact , the gurus of the East teach that the goldfish might well have been your great , great grandmother in a previous existence if she did not make the grade as a human being . |
| 7 | At this height , if you do not make efficient use of any lift you find , you will be down . |
| 8 | Motor insurance policy premiums should reduce over several years if you accrue ‘ No claims bonuses ’ — in other words if you do not make any claims for damage , etc . |
| 9 | If you do not make a will , your partner has no right to look after your affairs or to inherit anything of yours . |
| 10 | If you do not make notes your mind will have a tendency to wander and you will quickly lose the thread of the ideas with which you are trying to come to terms . |
| 11 | The Intestacy Rules will govern the distribution of your property if you do not make a will . |
| 12 | if you do not make the statement |
| 13 | If we do not make provision now , the burden we will place on our children will be too great . |
| 14 | But it is no use making out an extensive list of the treasures in our inheritance if we do not make use of them . |
| 15 | If we do not make the U-turn , that treaty requires us to be back in the ERM , or the son of ERM , before the next election . ’ |
| 16 | Graham Frater , our HMI Observer , continually reminded us of the hordes of textbook publishers who might reduce our recommendations to a series of useless exercises if we did not make our rationale abundantly clear . |
| 17 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 18 | If they did not make it they were excluded from the event . |
| 19 | However , even if they do not make the play-offs , the Chiefs have achieved a degree of respectability that has eluded them in past seasons . |
| 20 | It is not enough for researchers to assume that if they do not make conscious decisions , try to be scrupulously fair when selecting their samples , that randomness will be assured . |
| 21 | Thus if it does not make sense to suppose that the designatum of " A " might be different from what it is , then " A " is a rigid designator , otherwise it is non-rigid . |
| 22 | The amendment requires the court to give reasons if it does not make a compensation order in circumstances where it has power to do so . |
| 23 | Nias argues that the description of what the primary teacher puts into that amalgam is incomplete " if it does not make room for potentially dangerous emotions such as love , rage and jealousy on the one hand and intermittent narcissism and outbreaks of possessive dependence on the other " . |
| 24 | The mercantile agent then will not confer good title on X under section 2 of the Factors Act if he does not make the contract of sale with X until after he has returned the goods to their true owner , Beverley Acceptances v. Oakley . |
| 25 | Cook said that if he did not make the South African team he would seriously consider a return to county cricket . |
| 26 | By the autumn , however , the Russians , through their ambassador in Istanbul , Andrei Italinskii , began to threaten the sultan that if he did not make concessions to the Serbs they would intervene to enforce the disputed Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest ( see above , p. 81 ) . |