Example sentences of "if i [vb mod] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
2 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
3 | However , what the hon. Gentleman says is a new one on me , if I may put it as basically as that . |
4 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
5 | I could hardly speak , I told him it was fantastic , he asked if I would do it again . |
6 | W was that decision to any extent er influenced by , if I can put it rather er ineptly , the state of blood hound when it was taken out of service . |
7 | So we 're , we 're looking at er er both input and the output , if I can put it so crudely , in terms of er occupancy of er |
8 | I 'm showing it at the Norwich Contemporary Arts Exhibition on October the third if I can get it there . |
9 | But instead I sat quite still and thought , if I can say it here I can say it anywhere . |
10 | And perhaps if I can understand it more , then |
11 | I do n't know if I 'd do it again , though . |
12 | And afterwards he said if I 'd do it now and again just to keep the others on their toes , he 'd make up my wages . ’ |
13 | if I had er if I could do it again I 'd do something erm really different from that , |
14 | I had to go over there just to see how dockers worked over there , to see if I could improve it here , well I could n't because dockers would n't do what they , they were doing in Holland . |
15 | And how it fits into your life , I have the feeling that er if I could fix it so that I could do it sort of in the house , by the way , I could , I could do certain things and I could stick to them , and I would see that I 'd do them . |
16 | My gorgeous glossy dark locks used to be Mummy 's Delight when I was little , but now it was just wavy like the sea at Brighton and I wore it long with a flyaway fringe — well , it was flyaway if I could stick it solidly enough with gel or spray . |
17 | and she said if I could try it before oh , er |
18 | Depends if I could have it still tomorrow or not . |
19 | I was wondering if I could take it tonight ? |