Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] if [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He sounded almost admiring , but then went and spoilt it all by adding , ‘ Although I suppose if you 've gone through life getting yourself into situations like this you would be bound to develop a fairly strong streak of subbornness by now . ’
2 They say that I mean if you see owt ,
3 Although he clearly wants to walk off the boat , the ambulance crew scramble on board and clamp him onto a stretcher , so firmly that I wonder if they think he might punch them .
4 I think what it is is that I feel if I go into something for the sake of going into it to earn money I shall be absolutely bored with me life .
5 She said I did n't appreciate her , I took her for granted , I did n't notice all the little things she did and that I sulked if she made the slightest mistake .
6 okay just that I think if you 'd done it on your own
7 He needed hobdaying and was rather on the temperamental side , so she sent him to Bill and me to see if he had any ability in the dressage sphere . ’
8 There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand .
9 And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all .
10 You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself .
11 Now that 's probably er one of the least well-defined areas for standards , and I mean if you say Edifact to er a North American user they 'll look a bit puzzled , if you say it to somebody who knows something about Edifact they 'll say , Which Edifact standard is that ?
12 Yeah , but you see you 've got the , you 've got all the , the other things ins , down , down it , underneath , and I mean if you started going in with a knife and you started cutting down , I mean you could sa , cut an artery or anything could n't you ?
13 Er , and I mean if you want to buy you know a few hundred of it then fine , you know you could b it 'll do the job , you know if it 's , it 's not a , a thing that er
14 What I did was I got I went down to the print room and I got a piece of A one paper and I mean if you want to use Chris
15 And I mean if she got this job she 'd have to pay the full amount , if she 's on Income Support you do n't do you ?
16 Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that .
17 IF and I repeat IF we buy both Jobson and Bardsley who 's going to go ?
18 We came to do an article on this place and I doubt if you 've written one word .
19 But that is a highly vulnerable position for any politician to take - and I doubt if it offers the whole answer .
20 Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack
21 I had already recognised him , but fifteen years or so , boy to man , is a big change , and I doubt if he got it .
22 I knew players like the incomparable Joe Davis and I doubt if he did any more training than is entailed in going for a long walk .
23 so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite
24 I was wondering if we ought to find out who 's decided to start using it again , and whether they really checked , I have been told they check on the source , but it 's like we 're slipping back gradually , and I thought if we said , if we pledged that we 're going to boycott timber , we should really keep to it unless we make a decision
25 But it , I , it 's only six ninety five and I thought if we had you know a few facts at our fingertips to say well that 's all rubbish you know .
26 And I thought if she says yes , I 've got the date right !
27 Erm yes , job and I thought if I get steel wool
28 And I thought if I come along with .
29 And I thought if I go from behind this bar now I 'll never go back behind it now .
30 Oh I thought , I thought and they let him go and I thought if you said that , you know bit unbelievable .
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