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If I tried too hard to tell them exactly how something happened, in the hope of correcting some fantasy, I was quite likely to be accused of trying to suppress Free Speech.
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If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --
If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
Fruit compote: `` If you think I would understand it '' ; ;
`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.
`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.
If the old fool argues about the price, tell him I shall order my husband not to treat him as a patient any longer.
If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;
If Mrs. Wright doesn't accept the terms in the morning, I'll go either to Tokyo or to Holland, to do what I can.
If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.
If and tried
If the slope grew steeper and the groves more dim, she tried not to heed.
If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.
If the operating system detects that a program has tried to alter memory that does not belong to it, the program is terminated.
If the Americans tried to bargain with the Soviets after becoming aware of the missiles, Khrushchev could demand trading the missiles for West Berlin.
If the player tried to summon the Implementers, the game would suddenly produce a vision of Dave Lebling and Marc Blank at their computers, surprised at this " bug " in the game and working feverishly to fix it.
If anyone tried to overcharge for a good, people would stop buying and make it themselves ( or a competitor could enter the market and undercut them ).
If this helps keep them safe from harm this is considered to be a good thing, but there have been cases where hostages have tried to shield the captors during an assault or refused to co-operate with the authorities in bringing prosecutions.
According to Marie Dowling " Anne tried to educate her waiting-women in scriptural piety ” and is believed to have reproved her cousin, Mary Shelton, for “ having ‘ idle poesies ’ written in her prayer book .” If Cavendish is to be believed, Anne's outrage at Wolsey may have personalized whatever philosophical defiance she brought with her from France.
If you have ever tried to make a call out on a PBX, and been accidentally connected to an incoming call, you have experienced glare.
If the ear is dry and not infected, an air conduction aid could be tried ; if the ear is draining, a direct bone condition hearing aid is often the best solution.
If there is more than one MX record with the same preference number, all of those must be tried before moving on to lower-priority entries.
If the Alamanni tried to flee, Valentinian would be waiting for them with his army.
He refused to accept unjust cases, and always tried to be on the " right " side of any case ; John Campbell wrote that " If he saw that a cause was unjust, he for a great while would not meddle further in it but to give his advice that it was so ; if the parties after that would go on, they were to seek another counsellor, for he would assist none in acts of injustice ".
If multiple organisms or sites are involved then defendant tried per animal / site involved:
* If the defendant is a corporation then the head of that corporation may also be tried as liable and face the fine and / or prison sentence.
If a spectator, observing his apparent melancholy, tried to console him, he would erupt in fury, shaking the bars of his cage.
If the combatant is engaged in " armed conflict not of an international character " then under the Article 3 of the general provisions of the Geneva Conventions they should be " treated humanely ", and if tried " sentences must ... be pronounced by a regularly constituted court "
" If Admiral Husband Kimmel, the commander in Hawaii, had " had advance notice that the Japanese were coming, he most probably would have tried to intercept them.
( If this is tried with a non-conical point, such as the waterbomb base itself, eventually the fold will terminate in a spread squash.
If I tried to control it, it would be pretty false.
If I tried to sell a steer tomorrow I'd probably hardly get enough to pay the freight.
If I tried to sell a steer tomorrow I'd probably hardly get enough to pay the freight.
If the governor resigns, dies, or is impeached, tried, and convicted, then the lieutenant governor becomes governor.
If and too
If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.
If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too.
If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests.
If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.
If the background of design is too smooth, or you wish to create a wood-grained effect, it may be added at this time with a dull tool such as the handle of a fine paintbrush.
If you got too many people investing by this method, their operations would begin to affect stock prices, and thus throw the charts off.
If anything may be predicted in the quicksilver world of retailing, it seems likely that the suburban branch will come to dominate children's clothing ( taking the kid downtown is too much of a production ), household gadgetry and the discount business in big-ticket items.
If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.
If the platform is not too high off the ground, a transit can be mounted on a stand to raise it up to the platform.
If baby teeth are retained too long, the incoming second teeth may be prevented from emerging at the normal time or may have to erupt in the wrong place.
`` If teeth are moved too rapidly, serious injury can be done to their roots as well as to the surrounding bone holding them in place '', explains Dr. Brodie.
If communication with an entity on the `` other side '' is taking place, this too may assume the form of clairvoyant symbolism.
If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity.
If the administration ever had any ideas that it could find an acceptable alternative to Prince Souvanna Phouma, whom it felt was too trusting of Communists, it gradually had to relinquish them.
`` If you kick too much, your leg gets kinda dead '', he explained.
If Mr. Kennan is sometimes a little somber in his appraisals, if his analysis of how Western diplomacy met the challenge of an era of great wars and social revolutions is often critical and pessimistic -- well, the record itself is not too encouraging.
If he dwelt on the indignities he suffered he would lose all respect for her, and without the respect he might lose his view of her, too.
If the resulting four kilobyte table size is too large for a given target platform, the table lookup operation can be performed with a single 256-entry 32-bit ( i. e. 1 kilobyte ) table by the use of circular rotates.
If the anchor continues to drag, or sets after having dragged too far, it should be retrieved and moved back to the desired position ( or another location chosen.
If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.
If the hijackers ' demands are deemed too great and the perpetrators show no inclination to surrender, authorities sometimes employ armed special forces to attempt a rescue of the hostages ( notably Operation Entebbe ).
If the delay is too short, it will destructively interfere with the un-delayed signal and create a flanging effect.
If the concentration of element or compound in a sample is too high for the detection range of the technique, it can simply be diluted in a pure solvent.
If he begins to run too soon, the pitcher may throw to a base rather than to home — in this case, the runner is picked off, and will most likely be tagged out.
# If the beat on the new record hits before the beat on the current record then the new record is too fast, reduce the pitch and manually slow the speed of the new record to bring the beats back in sync.
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