Example sentences of "if you see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referring to his upbringing in the Protestant Shankill area , another said , ‘ I remember when I was a kid , if you seen a policeman you 'd run , nowadays kids are more likely to tell you to fuck off ’ ( FN 23/10/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 2 | So for example , if you saw a child , who was pathologically independent , would n't form emotional attachments or dependencies on other people of the way the child wanted it . |
| 3 | I mean if you saw a girl laying , alright so you 'd have to pick her up , put her in your car and take her |
| 4 | I do n't know if you saw a programme a while ago about carbon sixty , a new form of carbon that some professors in America discovered . |
| 5 | In Pakistan , ‘ if you see a girl with her Dupatta pushed up and her limbs in a relaxed position , standing and talking to boys , people passing will go on staring and start whispering among themselves — ‘ Where is her modesty ! ’ or , ‘ what is going on there ! ’ |
| 6 | If you see a problem call CLARENCE on . |
| 7 | It 's erm , even back to school , I mean boys wear blue , girls wear pink , if you see a boy with pink i , you know he 's classed as cissy , er , cissy or wimp things like that . |
| 8 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 9 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 10 | The only way to clarify this state of affairs is to say that if you see a cat 's pupils suddenly expand , without any change in light intensity or proximity of objects , then it is experiencing a state of strong emotional arousal . |
| 11 | So if you see a flock of crows they are rooks , or if you see a solitary rook , it 's probably a crow ! |
| 12 | If you see a dog make a controlled attack in a Schutzhund test , that attack is always silent , except when he is holding the helper at bay in the hide , when he again calls up the pack ( his handler ) . |
| 13 | 3 If you see a dog flatten its ears and tail and stalk towards you , stop running , walk away , and find a wall , tree or car to hide behind . |
| 14 | What do you do if you see a spaceman ? |
| 15 | A spokesman for America 's University of Minnesota , said : ‘ Plan for the contingency of being apart if you see a lot of divorce in both families . ’ |
| 16 | If you see a mother yelling at her child , ‘ Hey you — get in here ! ’ , you wo n't be surprised to find the child has awful manners . |
| 17 | If you see a picture of a golfing great with his hands well in front of the clubhead at impact , you can be sure that he is either playing the type of shot I have just mentioned or he could be squeezing the ball out of a tight lie . |
| 18 | If you see a stranger acting suspiciously outside your home or your neighbours ( especially if they are away on holiday ) call the police . |
| 19 | Incidentally , if you see a catalogue description of ‘ antique ’ applied to a binding , it usually means exactly the opposite . |
| 20 | if you see a bank |
| 21 | if you see a bank |
| 22 | People do sit down to discuss and pool ideas , but in mainstream broadcasting boundaries are more rigid between technical and conceptual areas and she misses the opportunity to use her technical skills : ‘ If you see a shot that you really like you ca n't just grab the camera and say , ‘ Oh , can I have a go . ’ |
| 23 | If you see a street light out of order — either due to vandalism or malfunction — get it fixed by calling CLARENCE on . |
| 24 | And do n't worry if you see a tape recorder going er , it 's actually being recorded , but just forget that it 's there . |
| 25 | If you see an ad which makes you really stop and take notice , someone has succeeded in getting through to you . |
| 26 | I mean , you know , if you see an advert in the paper that tells you that every fifty pence you spend is going to save a child 's life by providing it with Diralite or providing it with food that it needs for a money , or something like that , I mean how can you justify keeping any fifty pences at all yourself ? |
| 27 | But if you see an office wall , an open space or some other situation simply crying out for your work , why not check if the owner would be interested in commissioning something ? |
| 28 | If you see an article , a snippet , er , a comment , from a newspaper , from a magazine . |