Example sentences of "[vb pp] if i be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will be absolutely gutted if I am ruled out of the derby . |
| 2 | So I should n't imagine that erm I mean once we 've got through this one I 'm blowed if I 'm going to do it |
| 3 | Eight weeks later Dad went home to Hull , took one look at the nice convalescent home we 'd booked for him and said , ‘ I 'm buggered if I 'm staying in here . |
| 4 | The sense that something new was needed if I was to learn to breathe on empty air . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I was damned if I was going to have people going around talking about my system as the Cherkin shit experiment . ’ |
| 6 | I was damned if I was going to be last . |
| 7 | I was upset , naturally , but I was damned if I was going to let it show . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , but I was damned if I was going to tell him it had been OK 'd . |
| 9 | ‘ We happen to be staying in the same place , and I 'm damned if I 'm keeping awake waiting for you to turn up . |
| 10 | I 'm damned if I 'm going to have one lung ! ’ |
| 11 | But it would simply look like an admission of guilt and I 'm damned If I 'm going to do that when I 've nothing to hide . ’ |
| 12 | I 'M DAMNED IF I 'M GOING TO HANG AROUND IN BRITAIN AND BE SHAFTED BY NEIL KINNOCK — WE HAVE TO GET OFFSHORE , A.S.A.P. … |
| 13 | So the subtext of my behaviour could be interpreted as , ‘ I feel weak and tired , but I 'm damned if I 'm going to admit it , because that would only prove you right . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm damned if I 'm going to let him bully me with money ! ’ |
| 15 | But I 'm damned if I 'm going to fart around like a pansy floor-walker watching that no poor sod nicks the Y-fronts , even if I am dignified with the name security officer . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm damned if I 'm going to spend hours of my valuable time meeting every plane that lands . |
| 17 | And I 'm damned if I 'm going to permit you to — ’ |
| 18 | We 're both very bad at it and I 'm damned if I 'm losing my best friend . ’ |
| 19 | " And there 's your mother , overworked and underpaid if I 'm to believe my ears , and in need of a skivvy . |