Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pron] [verb] [adv] you " in BNC.

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1 But it , it was so varied that you went through the , the cities and the highland scenes where they went through the highlands and in the country and then you ended up with coming on to a crossroads in a modern , a futuristic city , where if you look down you , the pavements were elevated and you walked down to where all the models of General Motors were displayed as if they were crossing roads .
2 He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right .
3 Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally .
4 Yes but what you 're saying is that if you stay how you are now you 're not going to get enough orders .
5 The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us .
6 Mr Grout , but the rules are that if you do then you have to "
7 A lot of people say that if you play fast you have no feeling , which is completely wrong .
8 A lot of people say that if you play fast you have no feeling , which is completely wrong .
9 And put it on a piece of paper and put it on the notice board so that if anybody rings up you can say well this is what it is .
10 Er that can be bad because if , if only from the point of view that when you get back you 've got nothing to talk about because they were there and saw and did it all you see .
11 Because I want to do as much as we can during the holiday so that when you go back you you 're up there with the rest of them okay .
12 Anyone with experience of public speaking knows that when you stand up you should not speak absolutely immediately .
13 ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time .
14 And just bleep that when he comes near you .
15 She needs to be strapped in so that dad can keep control of her , so what we have found out is a bike made in Germany which is a wheelchair with the bicycle part of it clipped on the back , and once you get where you 're going , it dismantles and you 've got a wheelchair , you can go where you want , but it 's very expensive .
16 If shares go down you get your money back , and if they go up you get some of the profits .
17 With Save & Prosper 's Guaranteed Stockmarket Bond , if shares go up you win and if they go down you get your money back .
18 Well i i and if it cried well you let it cry , you just let it go on crying until it was so tired it went to sleep .
19 Also , if Finn likes a character , you will like him also , and if he does n't you wo n't !
20 ‘ He 's a nasty piece of work and if he comes back you treat him just the same as this afternoon .
21 That was called Glen Bainey And there is a stone out there a great huge stone oh that was called Clachnagowan I 've seen that many And if you went there you If you got the length of Clachnagowan you looked right out the hill right out to Glen Bainey
22 That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country .
23 ‘ It is and if you go there you 'll be lucky to escape with your balls . ’
24 Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing .
25 If you believe it , you are naive , and if you do n't you are dishonest in arguing for a non-payment campaign . ’
26 That , that 's a rational law , okay , it 's nothing to do with a taboo , there 's not some strange supernatural principle which says , in Savoy Street you drive on the other side , and if you do n't you 'll be struck down with a fever or ill luck or something like that .
27 One biscuit becomes a whole packet , one chocolate bar turns into three and before you know where you are you 've trapped yourself into a wholesale binge .
28 You know , rather like getting an adverse smear test , and before you know where you are you 've convinced yourself you 've got cancer when it was probably just a lousy smear and they did n't get enough cells .
29 But er if you had to paper the parlour was always papered in the ceiling but he kitchen was always whitewashed because we had these , if I explain to you these er fireplaces that er were n't very successful burning coal you know and the smoke would rise and before you knew where you were the ceiling was black again so sort of every so often up went the whitewash brush and you 'd whitewash the the ceiling .
30 Still , they can all be altered to suit , and when somebody asks where you got that dodgy or otherwise guitar sound you can say
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