Example sentences of "if you [vb base] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ I was sitting on the edge of my seat , jumping up and down , shouting , ‘ If you win it 's because you try and if you lose you must not cry ’ .
2 If you survive it 's on to Nordic times to battle your way to Asgard ( are you getting on this ?
3 Yes cos in those days you see if you remember they were all erm amateurs that played .
4 and that 's why if you remember she was pregnant when we met her
5 Last week if you remember I was talking about the primary concern of the state , a concern er which is paramount is a concern for its security and I said if you remember that there was an approach er toward the study of international politics called realism which stressed the importance of what has been termed the power security hypothesis .
6 If you remember I 'm not particularly fond of them , ’ he murmured , ‘ especially when they 're in my own home ; I prefer to keep well away . ’
7 If you remember it was a blustery day , and you know how easily I take cold . ’
8 Include pupils , teachers — even caretakers and dinner ladies if you know they are Christians .
9 Which you know is an advantage in other ways as well I think , because if you know she 's being paid scale two you know other responsibility comes with it as well
10 I do n't mean art should be as clear as the instructions on a packet of seeds ; I 'm saying that you trust the mystifier more if you know he 's deliberately choosing not to be lucid .
11 Erm and er so you know but you 've just got to be slightly careful I think of the figures and erm i if if you know it 's much better if you can talk to the the
12 If you know it 's going to happen , you can accept it .
13 If you know it 's not right , scrub that .
14 What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something .
15 I said I know it 's an inverse , well he said if you know it 's an inverse you 're half way there
16 But pathos exists even if you know you 're finished at death in your lifetime , pathos still exists .
17 You must get to know your inventory if you know you 're going to achieve profit .
18 Now if you 've had , if you know you 're a diabetic and see this happening in the , in the get this , getting this , the size
19 If you 're feeling bad , you 'll miss ; or , if you know you 're doing something wrong , you 'll miss , too .
20 And then it just depended , it 's up to you to get yourself so if you know you 're going , well say I was doing Hayes .
21 Naturally we can not always totally ignore the views of others but , If you know you are doing your job as well as you can , remember it is your own opinion which counts .
22 It is not often that secateurs or the knife is proven to be the carrier of infection ; of course , if you know you are working on infected wood , it is only common sense to disinfect your tools with Lysol or a similar substance before moving on to plants that are clean .
23 If you imagine it 's something to do with Suzanna you 're wrong .
24 I 'll do anything you want if you let her be all right .
25 And if you get It 's only when you get oily greasy stains that you think , oh I 'd better some ethanol or
26 And if you stay you 're not to tell her what we 're talking about either .
27 Okay but that if you delay it 's two weeks .
28 I mean if you go it 's normally I chat about two lectures on that and you give lots of examples .
29 I read in the paper this morning that if you smoke you 're less likely to develop Alzheimer 's disease than if you do n't .
30 Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person .
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