If you ever try anything without my orders I'll kill you ''.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If ever a rifle met the needs of the whitetail hunter, this is it.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

If William wished to continue operations for a year, why not simply leave the Negroes undisturbed and pay them `` as high wages to remain there as are ever paid the labor of persons of their sex & age.

If Palfrey ever had any doubts about the wickedness of slavery, they were put aside after he received an inventory of the slave property he had inherited.

If it was designed to put me on the spot, it would have to have been written before Peralta ever called me in on the case ''.

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 he ever did such a thing again she'd die of shame.

If I ever committed suicide, she thought, I would dive straight down from here -- and no one would find me for days.

In response to a neighbor's complaint that his target shooting endangered her children, he replied, " If that should ever happen, ma-da-me, we should ourselves be happy to get new ones with you " ( though he was not at all inclined to engage with females in the manner implied ).

If ever a work of art merited comparison with epic poetry, " The Battle of Issus " is it.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

" That rich island ," he wrote on 1 December 1881, " the key to the Gulf of Mexico, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American commercial system … If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination.

If a state is not controllable, then no signal will ever be able to control the state.

If Diocletian ever did enter Rome shortly after his accession, he did not stay long ; he is attested back in the Balkans by 2 November 285, on campaign against the Sarmatians.

If found to not ever become competent for trial, they will be evaluated via a Jackson hearing for possible continued commitment to protect the public.

If Mental Balance ever reaches + 500 /- 500, the character Awakens and either becomes a divine creature or transforms into a demon.

If he would have been any good, there was no way the City of Ayutthaya would ever have fallen.

If a bull moose is castrated, either by accidental or chemical means, he will quickly shed his current set of antlers and then immediately begin to grow a new set of misshapen and deformed antlers that he will wear the rest of his life without ever shedding again.

If you've got any ideas ''.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

If we go all gooey over this newest Castro ( until he proves he isn't ) we've got rocks in our heads.

Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.

but then Arlene got another tone in a hurry, and she said, `` If it wasn't for these dear children '' --.

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 I'd stayed, all that I'd have got was four punctured tires and one busted head.

If there was such a person, I'm afraid she got away with it.

If you're a good ballplayer, you've got to get mad.

Thereupon Hwang Pah said: `` If I knew thou art an Arhat, I would have doubled you up before thou got over there ''!!

If only they and Fausto Cleva in the pit had got together a bit more.

If the situation had been bad, it now got worse.

" If you bind me so that I am unable to release myself, then you will be standing by in such a way that I should have to wait a long time before I got any help from you.

If they decide not to have a Governor and the public agrees with that, and Parliament agrees, and the Queen agrees to it, that is a different matter, but while there is a Governor you have got to give him some respectability and credibility, because he is the host for the whole of New South Wales.

If you've got a lunatic doing my job, then you need to preview.

If you go deeper into it and say ' Yeah, but if you are going to grow a human being, does he start that big and I've got to see him through everything?

If you don't, then you've got the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that.

If the project got off the ground, the Coens would not direct it, but may have a part in writing it.

If the only way to come by any approximately coherent conception of God is via a mystical experience, then it seems as though this formulation of God hasn't got enough objectivity to get it off the ground.

Henny, who got an apple in his face, responded by saying " If you keep this up then there'll be a real Nightnurse on hand.

“ The magazine is written by young people pretending to be old people ... If American readers got a look at the pimply complexions of their economic gurus, they would cancel their subscriptions in droves ” quipped American author Michael Lewis in 1991.

If they'd had another singer they'd never have got further than Salford shopping centre.

As an example of the federal bureaucracy involved, Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston said, " If you move a polling place from the Baptist church to the Methodist church, you've got to go through the Justice Department.

If the contestant was right, he or she got the square ; if the contestant was wrong, the other contestant got the square, unless that caused the opponent to get three in a row.