Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you only get a hu yo you 're struggling if you 've only a got a hundred . |
| 2 | They 're lying if they say they do n't . |
| 3 | You often see people looking at you and you know that they 're wondering if they know you . |
| 4 | go to the shop and you 're wondering if you 've got the right change . |
| 5 | So you not it it 's do you say , you 're not actually against , you do n't mind er you you would n't mind them doing what they 're doing if they did it away from here . |
| 6 | ‘ The first rule of finance is do n't borrow to invest — and that 's what you 're doing if you ignore debts while ploughing cash into savings . ’ |
| 7 | But we 're saying if you look at , right , these two factors , one is the you 've got land reform er on absolute egal du n no what you call it grounds , the other is that you 're getting the peasants to do it themselves |
| 8 | So now they 're saying if she does n't , if she goes off again without her mother 's consent then they 'll take her into care . |
| 9 | I think that 's maybe because we 're Orcadian for no matter how good we 're feeling if we go you know that yourself if you go south anywhere and you meet up with just anybody that 's ever heard an Orcadian . |
| 10 | I mean I wonder who exactly you 're attracting if you 've got people coming to listen to music and then |
| 11 | But this if I may pick up on the point Mr made , how then do you assess the environmental impact of what you 're proposing if you do n't actually know where it 's going to go ? |
| 12 | I 've been wondering if I knew you . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm sorry — I 'm so curious — I 've been wondering if she answered , and if so , what she said . ’ |
| 14 | I am wondering if you have any idea of what it could be ? ’ |
| 15 | He would have been lying if he had recorded only the more accessible drama of the painter 's electric quarrels with Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles , the distant necessary brother who supplied paint and love , the severed ear delivered to the whore in the brothel , the asylum fears . |
| 16 | THE auction of LFA sheep quota by Lawrie & Symington at Lanark last week has confirmed most expectations of market prices but Ministry of Agriculture specialists have given warning that farmers are gambling if they trade before the transfer rules are confirmed some time next month . |
| 17 | I , I 've got my views , I 'm sure you 've got yours , and I shall listen later in the morning to the debate , but I would finally say delegates , that I hope you enjoy your stay in Portsmouth , in particular Southsea where most of you are staying if you have a chance go to the rose gardens , have a walk along the sea front there , there it 's magnificent this time of year and a tribute to our staff in our direct works organization for their hard work . |
| 18 | That 's what I 'd have been doing if I had been there so you 're not so different from me Peter , so you might have , you might be different in other ways John , but I 've got that weakness as well . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ said Uncle Albert hesitantly , ‘ it would certainly cap everything we 've been doing if you did find a black hole . |
| 20 | Scientists , he said , must explain to the public what they are doing if they want to receive continued support . |
| 21 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 22 | And the Americans are saying if you build that we pull out our our , our aid to you . |
| 23 | Thinking of his earlier remark , Cassie said bluntly : ‘ Well , I 've only just about got one foot in the middle class bracket , myself , so perhaps you 'd be slumming if you made love to me , which is so obviously what you have in mind . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm suggesting if you want to pursue that , I 'm prepared to listen to it yes . |
| 25 | She would n't be laughing if she knew how close she was to disaster . |
| 26 | please to hear it I 'm sure his dad would be fuming if he did drink and drive |
| 27 | One opposition leader , Mr Jacek Kuron , rendered the hardest-boiled judgment : ’ This could n't be happening if they did n't want it to happen . |
| 28 | It is therefore natural to speak of my desire for coffee as the cause of my going to the kitchen ; a quite different kind of cause would be operating if someone twisted my arm behind my back and forced me to go . |
| 29 | In other words the sorts of remarks they would be passing if they had not this to talk about . |
| 30 | We 'd be lying if we did n't say that . |