Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for his invitation — if I catch you at 1997 with him or any other man , I 'll revoke my decision about the wedding night , and take you to bed immediately ! ’ |
| 2 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
| 3 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 4 | ‘ I wrote a postcard to my parents , ’ recalls Margaret Olmer ; ‘ I ca n't remember if I addressed it to both . |
| 5 | Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched . |
| 6 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 7 | It was too bad of me , I knew she would do the decent thing if I put it like that . |
| 8 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 9 | If I provide you with second-class expenses you would be justified in cheating me . |
| 10 | I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’ |
| 11 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 12 | If I do it at half the speed . |
| 13 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 14 | If I do it in private , I may easily fall into the way of doing so in public . |
| 15 | If I call it by this name I will have the whole of a dental audience with me . |
| 16 | If someone gave you minus four , it would turn that into sixteen . |
| 17 | Obviously if someone put me onto some good night fishing that would be different . |
| 18 | But if someb if somebody put them in plain language to me , |
| 19 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |
| 20 | What on earth would she think if she saw her in this ridiculous get-up ? |
| 21 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
| 22 | God knows , he thought , I should n't say anything about it if she nagged me in any halfway reasonable manner . |
| 23 | It did n't sound so bad if she said it like that — family — no threat to Glyn 's ego . |
| 24 | I reminded her of Bobbie and would I mind if she called me by that dear nickname ? |
| 25 | If they have to stay in the trench long enough for new roots to develop , they are not so likely to be damaged if you lift them from loose , friable soil . |
| 26 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 27 | You 're lucky if you survive them at all . ’ |
| 28 | But what we ca n't , it 's absolutely but if you write it in all the other divisions have got to do it as well . |
| 29 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |
| 30 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |