Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 2 | ‘ If I am struggling around the 15 miles mark then my determination will be just to finish , but it is my ambition to break 2hr 25min . ’ |
| 3 | I get to the border , and I am questioned for hours , endless interrogation , and if I am travelling in a car , they open it up and they search it . |
| 4 | Neighbours and friends tell me that when I am racing you can hear the noise right down the street ; it is as if I am running in Dad 's front room ! |
| 5 | I thought if I am going to be out of work , I might as well make some cash out of it . |
| 6 | I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt . |
| 7 | But I could tell there was no real wish on her part to renew any old ties of love and friendship and if I am going to be honest no real wish on my part either . |
| 8 | And he has realised that he had nothing to lose even if I am spying for Carlotta . |
| 9 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |
| 10 | Then why do I always feel as if I am falling off the edge of a cliff ? |
| 11 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 12 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 13 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 14 | I felt as if I were drowning in sleep . |
| 15 | Running in a half-mile race with little pains tearing at my chest and my knees sinking lower and lower as if I were running across quick-sands . |
| 16 | As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann . |
| 17 | Terry er sorry Roger if , if I were interviewing for posts , I would appoint , and you know full well I would , the people that I thought were best for that job . |
| 18 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 19 | My heart was behaving as if I were going before a judge . |
| 20 | If I 'd a , if I were walking down the street going Nigger ! sorry ! |
| 21 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 22 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't ask him for a drink of water if I were dying of thirst . |
| 24 | Yes , I should know if I were falling in love , she thought . |
| 25 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 26 | There was no sandy beach , and as this part of the bay was an inlet , I felt as if I were standing beside a great lake , not the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 27 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 28 | It was fascinating , I felt as if I was learning about another world . |
| 29 | We began to discuss what should be done and how I would manage to support the children , and if , from time to time , I had the feeling that something was wrong , it was only in a distant , elusive way , as if I was listening to someone playing a piano on the other side of the road and hearing occasionally , but only occasionally , a wrong note . |
| 30 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |