Example sentences of "if somebody [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if somebody forgets to put the suspension on |
| 2 | The only problem will arise if somebody thinks you 've simply lost a will , which does occasionally happen , and then they turn to the copy to try and prove it . |
| 3 | If somebody bonks you on the |
| 4 | Well that 's for me to listening back if I 've , if somebody objects to , you know |
| 5 | Now if somebody steals that it 's an awful nuisance but that 's all it is . |
| 6 | If somebody sends you off to — say — Acton or Rotherhithe , you do n't have a choice . |
| 7 | If somebody calls you up and says something 's not working , always ask , well what did you change recently , and ninety five percent of the time , it 's that that 's the cause of the problems . |
| 8 | So you ca n't sound surprised at the line , you know , if somebody calls for Fred Bloggs and you have n't got a clue who he is , do n't sound surprised , because it 's probably this divert train . |
| 9 | It is helpful if somebody points out such mistakes to you . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if somebody talks about revolution , structural changes or socialist society , one is safe in assuming he is not a Communist' ( 25 May 1968 ) . |
| 11 | If somebody offers a way of eliminating at least some of the spaghetti which lurks around my PC , they have my undivided attention . |
| 12 | Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ? |
| 13 | If somebody does n't like the truth then it 's too bad . |
| 14 | ‘ If somebody does n't do something quickly , ’ said the Queen , ‘ I 'll cut everybody 's head off . ’ |
| 15 | Some people even leave radios on in the house , so that there 's not only the light on , but if somebody does walk up the drive intending to knock on the door to test it , before they get to the door they can hear a noise , they turn around and go back . |
| 16 | Because if somebody does n't know what standard they 're supposed to achieve how can they be training then it 's like a piece of string is n't it , how long 's a piece of string ? |
| 17 | We 're gon na play these tapes in my car tonight , have a good laugh , especially if somebody does turn up , I 'll say here are listen to this , this is what I think of about all at work today , what I 'm gon na do , mm she 'll say come on then , better get on with it , and I 'll go , yeah |
| 18 | Well if somebody does n't you know |
| 19 | If somebody does that to me they 're right up my arse and something came like that , or even just on a single carriage road , or anything I 'd just touch my brake slightly |
| 20 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 21 | Er now I would suggest that if somebody does not make a single spelling mistake and it or or grammatically error and it 's perfectly well presented give them full five marks okay . |
| 22 | but then , on the other hand , I 'm not the sort of person who , I mean , if it 's something like that I can ask people , but I 've got friends who are quite cheeky , who will ask things , I mean , like if somebody does something for me , I 'm like , are you sure , are you sure , you do n't mind , and like , I 'm like over the top the other way . |
| 23 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |
| 24 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 25 | If somebody goes on a drinking binge that 's the behaviour , the decision they make . |
| 26 | If somebody goes up their path and she barks you can hear it ! |
| 27 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 28 | Now if you 're if somebody becomes a persistent discounter first of all they 'll they 'll question it back at head office . |
| 29 | So if somebody gets H I , yes , because gets , takes out a policy at twenty five , gets diagnosed H I V at thirty , and they 're still living , they have n't actually got full blown aids , and they can live for a hell of a long time afterwards , they 're paying their W O P premium for a long , long time . |
| 30 | If somebody gets on that list , do they get substitution from personnel , or do they . |