Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] if [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Well , I mean erm I du n no really , you sort of get the feeling that they 're suspicious , cos I mean there 's so many things go on here , that they 're not sure erm about you , I mean if somebody else does n't know you , then they 're not sure about you .
2 Right okay so that 's why it 's important that we get I mean if we just got one neutron out then theoretically you could sustain a chain reaction , but in practice it would be absorbed , it would n't they would n't all hit , some of them would miss , but as long as we can get on average about one , of those three , hitting another one , we can keep it going , and we get this chain reaction going and th the heat really builds up then , and that 's what they use in a a nuclear reaction reactor .
3 I mean if we just take a , a breather there maybe for , for some member comments , I mean I think there 's some , some elements that members might want to comment on , particularly to do with settle settlement excuse me , the sort of policy direction , and some of the suggestions that , that are going against our policy direction and we have these taken over several years now , and also the issue about the aging population and the , the demographic , graphic growth , and our , our consistency of spending at government standing spending assessment .
4 But I mean if we only had like the writing paper and the envelopes and re-use labels , small items of stationery
5 I mean if they ever do that to me I 'm just gon na fucking drive off .
6 Mm , mm , right and are we , I mean if anybody still wanted to put in a motion , there is still time just about .
7 if , but I mean if your obviously doing it and you more moving the clutch up and down
8 Erm swimming is recommended as about the most all round exercise because it certainly does your heart and lungs , it does all the muscles of the body , it , according to what you do in the water of course , I mean if you just go and stand there it does nothing
9 Yeah but , so your electronics is a complicated subject and erm I mean if you just go to quantum theory ,
10 No , I mean if you just keep using the bay
11 I mean if you just want the teletext all you do is press your mute and then you 'll just have your teletext without the sound .
12 So if there 's a burglar then , he 'll probably be put off by I mean if he really wanted to break into any particular house for a reason , you , you might approach it , but if you have n't got th no firm house in mind you 've several houses and there 's one house without any lights on at all and it was night time , you may well go for that one first .
13 You wander in , you pay your ninety P , and I say If you just go through that door please , and the next minute I 'm out at the bar as well saying What would you like to drink ?
14 Erm Yeah , I imagine if you just look under Registry Office in the phone
15 so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base
16 ‘ But I know if I ever left , I would return to Middlesbrough at the end of my career and support my home club .
17 You 're not kidding he certainly ai n't kidding you now now it 's happened to me I know if it ever happened I know never to do it again .
18 Tom : ‘ I mean , I doubt if anyone ever knew that bloke existed until the stories . ’
19 I doubt if anyone ever dared broach the subject to Edwin and sometimes I think he simply believed what he wanted to believe , that the two were his . ’
20 I doubt if it ever dawned on him that his patient wife would tell him to get stuffed .
21 I doubt if it ever has as wide a meaning as that .
22 And I doubt if she ever loved me … ’
23 Except when he was entertaining I doubt if he ever sat down to a three-course meal .
24 You have had no consideration for me at all ; I doubt if you ever loved me .
25 And er , last time I I get in touch , me mum told me , turned round and says to me , I do n't want any more mum , I says why , he says , oh she wo n't let me have pillow and then I then I think if summat else brought to light , I kill her
26 And this is the great chamber , and this is where their tour ends I think if we just go back if we go straight back into the place we started , and so just finish it off , then I must I must finish off as well .
27 Yes , but they 're going and then they 've got them in the ponds , they 've got them all in their ponds , so they 're obviously okay , they 're for ponds so it , I think if we probably get ten , fifteen on the , cos I 'm gon na be so used to seeing them , cos I 'm gon na be ordering those , I 'll order all the carps and you 've got as well
28 I think if we ever need to fill in half an hour we know what to do !
29 Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn
30 I think if they really want to do it they should go ahead and do it because it 's not going to get any easier .
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