Example sentences of "if [pers pn] find " in BNC.

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1 If I found it — well , I 'd be over the moon .
2 It is hard to find one year and , if I found it , I do n't think I 'd spend it learning English . ’
3 I 'd be terrified if I found myself alone in London , never mind New York .
4 He said that if I found out , I would want to kill them both .
5 The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal .
6 But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else .
7 She said if I found you I had to ask you to dinner .
8 I 'm not married and do n't have any children and I would love to have children and if I found out that I could n't have any I would do anything to have them .
9 Erm I do n't expect that my life will change immediately if I found out about them .
10 Even if I found one I do n't know how I 'd use it .
11 And if I if I found D Y by D sine X that would show me , not the gradient of this curve ,
12 ‘ Perhaps if I found a partner …
13 I 'd bum round the world looking for a lost cause and then if I found one I 'd settle down and try to save it .
14 But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . )
15 I suppose I thought — if I found my real father he 'd be — different somehow .
16 If they have got something cooking , and if I found I did n't like it when it came , I 'd tell them to get stuffed .
17 ‘ I 'm not sure I could stand the pain if I found myself being exchanged for a newer model ! ’
18 If I found Mr Flint as exciting as you do , it would be all right .
19 If I found there was no coffee in the house I 'd shout and swear at her and I must have been an absolute pain to live with .
20 Three quite different and perfectly compassionate journalistic colleagues , on learning of this interview , asked if I found him ‘ unsympathetic ’ , ‘ slippery ’ , ‘ obnoxious ’ .
21 Anyway I said to our Pam well you have been brought up to do things like that and not only that if I found a pound on the floor I 'd pick it up that 's different .
22 If I , if if I found out there was animals in our caravan , I 'd take them to town .
23 This girl who 's hair I do erm her little girl , Karla cor she 's if I found a little girl to look like her , I 'd have one !
24 If I found you 'd won a hundred thousand pound I 'd kidnap you !
25 I mean I keep on saying if I found I could n't do the maths I 'd ditched
26 What if I find certain issues or situations difficult ?
27 Naw , if I find 't is a good day , I resalve to take a turn in the Park , and see the fine women ; so huddle on my clothes , and get dressed by one .
28 The only problem is : What happens if I find that when I 've bumped Myself off , there 's some kind of a , you know , All that mystical stuff about when you die , You might find you 're still — know what I mean ?
29 I slightly lengthened my stride , feeling self-conscious as I always do if I find myself marching in step with martial music , when I deliberately break step and try to walk between the beats , as it were , in as unmilitary a way as possible .
30 If I find favour in the eyes of the Lord , he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation ; but if he says , ‘ I have no pleasure in you , ’ behold , here I am , let him do to me what seems good to him' ( 2 Sam .
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