Example sentences of "if you be [prep] your [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are on your own in a hovel it is nothing other than miserable . |
| 2 | Long train journeys are often very boring and tiresome , especially if you are on your own . |
| 3 | Even more , and it really , and if you are on your own , |
| 4 | It 's also rather annoying if you 're on your own , a bit like watching someone eating a three-course meal when you have some dry toast and a pickled onion . |
| 5 | If you 're on your own , treat his display with cool disdain and simply ignore him as you walk past ; or strongly assert yourself and tell him to cover himself up at once — but remember , no threats . |
| 6 | The caller said , ‘ Mr Eastwood would like to know if you 're on your own this evening , and if you are , would you like to join him for dinner ? ’ |
| 7 | You see , if we went outside our area we 'd get nicked … remember that time the police come down and they said ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you . ’ |
| 8 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 9 | Obviously if you 're on your own , single , with nowhere to live , you have to have money and you have to get somewhere to live , so I turned to prostitution . |
| 10 | It can help just to have someone around to talk to , especially if you 're on your own with the children during the day . |
| 11 | Christmas is so important , it 's important to salute it , even if , well even if you 're on your own . |
| 12 | Draw it up , and here we just took suggestions from everybody , but what you can do , if you 're on your own , write it down on a piece of paper , and ev , when every time something occurs to you , you put it down . |
| 13 | Mind you , if erm someone erm thought of erm if you 're on your own and a man says to you I 'm married but I do n't like it can I come and live with you ? |
| 14 | I suppose one of the things about Neighbourhood Watch , if , if it worked properly , is that you , there 's a group of you with a common interest , and you could deal with a situation like that a bit better than you could if you were on your own . |