Example sentences of "[conj] if you [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if you spread it on the ground you could study it like tea-leaves and read the future there . |
| 2 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 3 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 4 | And if you do it on the tenth |
| 5 | " Nobody , " Harkness answered , coming forward , " but he 's been to hospital with that hand , and if you cane him on it , he 'll have to go again . |
| 6 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 7 | But if you hear her on a if you hear her on a tape recorder she is . |
| 8 | that helps them , but if you put them on radiators and God knows what round the house trying to keep them , get them dry |
| 9 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 10 | But if you leave it on the back of the paper it slowly dries out and turns bright yellow , staining the paper in the process . |
| 11 | I think it might need burning off because if you leave it on it 's gon na be a bit oddish ! |