Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] if it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Luther sent me to see if it was all right , for him to come and get himself something to eat . ’
2 I mean if it 's right at the back it does n't matter if it 's black or red .
3 I mean if it 's just economies you 're after , closing down an institution 's not the best way to do it , because the plant remains , and , and you ca n't easily get rid of the staff .
4 but I mean if it 's not yet that 's fine .
5 That that 's not much but if it 's if it 's I mean if it 's not padded out with waffle and drivel cos you I mean if it 's a good ti concise answer that 'll probably get a good mark .
6 I mean if it 's then it 's the end to the clause , erm , er
7 Or alternatively , I mean if it 's really that important , erm and and it 's on the Friday , we we could actually send for somebody from here to come out .
8 th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident .
9 If it , I mean if it were like today it will be lovely .
10 I suppose if it was there all by itself it must have been a ram . ’
11 What would I mean if it was n't , if it was if it was erm think of another U K customer .
12 I wonder if it is badly wounded .
13 I wonder if it is here that the pictures are to appear , worrying that the seats are badly arranged , pointing the wrong way , that we wo n't be able to see them properly .
14 The crew think this is pretty stupid of them but I wonder if it is n't fantastically mature .
15 However logical may be the derivation of Protoctista as the name for a kingdom , I wonder if it is more likely to catch on now than it was in 1861 .
16 I wonder if it 's just some sub-conscious thing that my casualness is really just wanting to be recognised … ’
17 I wonder if it 's not the game of football that 's a problem , but the attitude of many of the people involved .
18 Well thank you , I , I 'll leave to Norbert the handling of the artist 's side of this , but as to the amateur sportsman , I know this is a very familiar and accepted notion among us , that the British do n't take sport seriously enough , but I wonder if it 's not one of the many self-delusions that we suffer from .
19 ‘ Sometimes I wonder if it 's really worth it ! ’
20 I wonder if it 's really
21 So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it .
22 I wondered if it was so smart to allow Kaptan to make such good progress .
23 She doubted if it was anywhere near the truth , but clearly it made Miss Beard happy .
24 She vowed if it was humanly possible , no other patient would suffer a similar fate through lack of a suitable donor .
25 Anyway I mean hopefully this this will be sort of you know if it 's well publicized it it will be well attended because of the past .
26 Yea , drinking 's always got me into trouble in the past , I mean now I 've thought about it , I 've thought what a stupid idiot I 'd be , so you know if it was n't for the course , then I probably would have gone and done it again , you know , without a second thought .
27 GRAHAM TAYLOR searches desperately for someone to get a grip of England 's midfield and you wonder if it is too late — at 28 — for Stewart Robson .
28 Ah most squads were on piece work but you might find that you had If it was n't an apprentice squad , you might find that you had a squad of riveters who were n't on piece work , who simply went round doing any wee odds and ends that had
29 He had stopped stealing , or , rather , Emmie thought he had : sometimes she wondered if it was just that she was n't keeping a proper watch on him .
30 She wondered if it was all right for her to go on thinking about Baby .
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