Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be [verb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 2 | Not if I 'm paying for it ! |
| 3 | If she was waiting for him to say that she did n't need to diet she had a long wait . |
| 4 | She looked as if she was waiting for me so before she could say anything I spoke . |
| 5 | This generates atmosphere and publicity if you are looking for it . |
| 6 | You do n't have to start at a attitude , but yeah , if you 're watching for them , and you start to see signals , you need to be aware of these , because that 's really the situation , is n't it , that 's why I think you to be aware of influence . |
| 7 | It would be an enormous relief — and if you 're waiting for me to struggle , demand you release me , you can wait till hell freezes over , Feargal McMahon , because I would n't give you the satisfaction ! ’ |
| 8 | If you were paying for it I could n't stop you now you 're sixteen |
| 9 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 10 | ‘ The work is destroyed already — if they are coming for us . ’ |
| 11 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'd be on foot if they were looking for you , I think , but perhaps ‘ t would be safer to get behind the counter . |
| 13 | This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts . |
| 14 | The Ingard group owns Winter Marsh — if it 's paid for it . |
| 15 | ( Almost , she thought afterwards , as if it were done for her . ) |
| 16 | And that was true , for her — she 'd never been out of love with him and if he was falling for her he could n't have loved her before . |
| 17 | Her proposition had been simple and direct — if he were to work for her , she would make him wealthy and ensure him a place in society . |
| 18 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 19 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |