Example sentences of "[modal v] be lucky if " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll be lucky if I make it there ! |
| 2 | Then she roared , like a Montreal trucker stuck in a lane : ‘ You 'll be lucky if his name 's not on a tombstone — like his friend who killed himself . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He 'll be lucky if he gets the chance , ’ Defries said . |
| 4 | If you have n't cheated and have really covered the last column , you 'll be lucky if you manage to get ten examples down and in the right places . |
| 5 | I 'll be lucky if I come through this with my balls still attached . ’ |
| 6 | She 'll be lucky if she does n't have to hold both of you up during the service . |
| 7 | So in fact I mean we 'll be lucky if we clear a profit on it . |
| 8 | They 'll be lucky if they stop at the Horseshoe . |
| 9 | At the rate you 're going , by the time you leave , they 'll be lucky if there 's |
| 10 | And when he was found they 'd both be in such a heap of dung , they 'd be lucky if they did n't find themselves nicked as thieves . |
| 11 | He 'd be lucky if he was merely broken back into the Scouts for ten or twenty years . |
| 12 | He 'd be lucky if he could find them at all under that mess . |
| 13 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 14 | He went over and banged on the panel so hard that his knuckles hurt — even so , he knew that he 'd be lucky if he were heard . |
| 15 | If we go round the same group and ask them how much management training they 've had , we 'd be lucky if we could dredge up fifty weeks . |
| 16 | As , ten minutes later , she realised that she 'd be lucky if her sister ever spoke to her again . |
| 17 | I 'd be lucky if I 've taken 500-pounds . |
| 18 | I asked him if he thought he would win any prizes ; he thought he would be lucky if he did . |
| 19 | It was true that the happy-go-lucky dockers , working for a few pennies every time a ship came in , were being watched carefully by Captain Robins on the bridge , but it all seemed rather haphazard , as though I would be lucky if I ever found all my trunks . |
| 20 | Dirkin would be lucky if he was owed a ten-pound note . |
| 21 | She remembered the glint of steel in his eyes last night , and she knew then that she would be lucky if he allowed her to get that far into explaining anything . |
| 22 | I do n't know how you all managed to worm your way into our confidence , but someone 's already taken care of one of your friends , and the other will be lucky if he lives until his trial . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ My gown will be lucky if it gets any attention at all ; you forget some of the top designers are taking part . ’ |
| 24 | They will be lucky if they retain as many as 80 of their present 265 parliamentary seats . |