If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

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.

If the detective insists upon retaining his personal standards, he must now do so in conscious defiance of his society.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If Russian pupils have to take these languages, how come American students have a choice whether or not to take a language, but have to face so many exceptions??

If so, I would lean to Sir Charles' conception of the man.

If only the fucken weather wasn't so lousy!!

If and when Hino decided to tell him about his experiences, he would do so unasked.

If you elect to use the Standard Deduction or the Tax Table, and later find you should have itemized your deductions, you may do so by filing an amended return within the time prescribed for filing a claim for refund.

If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.

If Af, then Af is divisible by Af and so Af, i.e., Af.

Then I replied, coldly, `` If you despise me, why don't you say so, directly ''??

If Congress wants to displace the states from areas which they have customarily occupied, let it do so knowingly and explicitly.

If people don't want to provide public education, should they be forced to do so??

If so, then it is clear that in saying the suffering was bad we are not expressing our feelings only.

If we did not mean to say this, why should we be so relieved on finding that the suffering had not occurred??

If we were asked why we thought so, we should say that these things involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

If they opted for illusion, it could only be illusion per se -- an illusion of depth, and of relief, so general and abstracted as to exclude the representation of individual objects.

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

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

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

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

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If a laser is swept across a distant object, the spot of laser light can easily be made to move across the object at a speed greater than c. Similarly, a shadow projected onto a distant object can be made to move across the object faster than c. In neither case does the light travel from the source to the object faster than c, nor does any information travel faster than light.

If the absorption occurs in the junction's depletion region, or one diffusion length away from it, these carriers are swept from the junction by the built-in field of the depletion region.

( If a wing has a rectangular planform, rather than tapered or swept, then the chord is simply the width of the wing measured in the direction of airflow.

* Tony Palmer, in The Observer, wrote shortly after the album's release: " If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert, then ... album The Beatles ... should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making ..."

If a swept wing is continuous-an oblique swept wing, the pressure iso-bars will be swept at a continuous angle from tip to tip.

If this happens divers will not want to descend with the buoy and will prefer to release the shot line and be swept away from the shot.

If the Germans had recently swept a particular area for mines, and Bletchley Park was in need of some cribs, they might ( and apparently did on several occasions ) direct that the area be mined again.

If the target aircraft was to one side of the antenna's axis, the system would see the strength of the signal grow and fade as the beam swept across it, allowing the system to move the dish in the direction of the maximum signal and thereby track the target.

If the current cargo is not the same as the residue remaining on the barge deck, the residue should be swept up against the barge coaming and in some cases may be shoveled and placed into a container or bag.

If one rotates a line L around another line L ' skew but not perpendicular to it, the surface of revolution swept out by L is a hyperboloid of one sheet.

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