Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will it help you if I tell you first that I love you , ’ he whispered , ‘ that I adore you with all my heart ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Nota if I see you first , crocodile , ’ muttered Luigi , patting his new espresso machine affectionately . |
| 3 | ‘ Not , ’ said Lydia under her breath and falling back on the cliché , ‘ if I see you first . ’ |
| 4 | Not if I see you first , Paige thought , watching him turn and walk away . |
| 5 | If the Fruity Party fields three candidates in a constituency election ; if I give my first preference to Apple and second to Banana ; if I give my third preference not to Cherry but to Hazel of the Nutty Party ; and if finally , that third preference becomes an effective vote , it will unquestionably be a vote against the Fruity Party that I was supporting with my first and second preferences . |
| 6 | If the Fruity Party fields three candidates in a constituency election ; if I give my first preference to Apple and second to Banana ; if I give my third preference not to Cherry but to Hazel of the Nutty Party ; and if finally , that third preference becomes an effective vote , it will unquestionably be a vote against the Fruity Party that I was supporting with my first and second preferences . |
| 7 | ‘ If you survive your first year you may just manage to live through the rest of your time here . |
| 8 | Let me then say a little bit about Newstat and presidential power and , and if you remember my last lecture I said that he was the man who coined the phrase that presidential power is the power to persuade . |
| 9 | Why , oh why , do we implore others to Honk If You Had It Last Night ? |
| 10 | Well , I was discussing that with Frank last night and he actually pointed out that it might help the sales of the Financial Times because er , er the F T's very often bought as a second newspaper and if you get your first newspaper cheap , you 've got more change in your pocket . |
| 11 | The interviewer is trying to find out if you left your last job for reasons which could pose similar problems if you came to work with his/her firm . |
| 12 | It is easiest to extricate rabbits from the nets if you kill them first . |
| 13 | If you do them last thing at night you might find it difficult to get off to sleep . |
| 14 | If you do it first , you 're gon na really understand what I 'm going on about . |
| 15 | Although not strictly part of the academic programme , this is considered to be an important part of the project because if you enjoy your last experience of school , then you 're more likely to return to studying something at a later stage in life . |
| 16 | If you phone us first , you will be asked to send in a signed Booking Form , pay the deposit and only then can any booking be confirmed . |
| 17 | Chairman , my point of order , my point of order I second and I reserve my remarks I was waiting to see if you called me last . |
| 18 | You get a shilling if you see it first . |
| 19 | ‘ I think if you watched me first you could both help . |
| 20 | Not if you send it second class . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing , if we reach him first . |
| 22 | Here is Lawrence , bowls this one on the leg stump , push there , the short play , fielded by Morris and that 's a wicket er that was eighteen , DaSilva a hundred and sixteen minutes and he only had one four and if we remember his first innings when he scored forty-two , with seven fours and he was in only for that , thirty-something minutes , was it ? |
| 23 | Howard Wilkinson , the manager who has revived a slumbering Yorkshire giant , offered a brave if predictable public stance — ‘ We 're not throwing in the towel … if we win our last five matches it could be interesting ’ — but privately he must realise that an outstanding opportunity has been lost . |
| 24 | ‘ If we win our next five matches it could be interesting . ’ |
| 25 | However , if we win our next game we will be ahead as we lost to Palace in the title season . |
| 26 | but i if we take it first of all back well wh okay what was happening in that microcosm , and then the extent to which you can generalize . |
| 27 | The increasingly significant role that the capture and manipulation of electronic information plays in contemporary day-to-day transactions becomes evident if we consider our last visit to a supermarket . |
| 28 | Whenever we work with data values that have been generated by a growth process , we will have a better chance of revealing regularities in their behaviour if we convert them first to logs . |
| 29 | If they survive their first outing on a ‘ real course ’ and still have the golf bug , they can progress to the 2,294-yard Shey Copse course , a nine-hole mixture of par-3s and medium length par-4s . |
| 30 | SUNDERLAND and Middlesbrough will face former heroes in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup if they win their fifth round replays . |