Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I 'm not , erm if I , if I take her for a long run . |
| 2 | Right I 'm convinced such a good breed and you very kindly rigged this Topper up for me so well you wo n't mind if I take it for a spin will you ? |
| 3 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
| 4 | If I bring you in a bottle of concentrate ? |
| 5 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 6 | ‘ My Lords , I have already disclaimed the intention of discussing the scope of the rule in O'Reilly v. Mackman but , even if I treat it as a general rule , there are many indications in favour of a liberal attitude towards the exceptions contemplated but not spelt out by Lord Diplock . |
| 7 | I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Not if I beat them to a pulp it wo n't . |
| 9 | ‘ Signorina , will you be all right if I leave you for a little while ? ’ |
| 10 | Erm do you mind if I leave you for a second ? |
| 11 | On the new LP it will say something like ‘ Free samples if someone uses it in a really creative way . ’ |
| 12 | If someone asks you for a tale , tell them you 're learning the story of the Dwarf and the Firewood . |
| 13 | ‘ I very rarely go out at weekends but if someone sees you in a pub once they assume you must be a real nightclubber . |
| 14 | ‘ If someone approaches me with a song , it 's got ta hit me in the face . |
| 15 | Er if somebody hits you with an objection , you deal with it , you do n't fight , you follow me ? |
| 16 | It was easier , for example , to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film , possibly played by Orson Welles . |
| 17 | The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples . |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 19 | He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed . |
| 20 | What happens if she does it on a weekend , will we just have a key ? |
| 21 | ‘ If she hit me with a stick , I 'd seize it and break it under her nose . ’ |
| 22 | Lipstick lasts longer if you apply it with a lipbrush . ’ |
| 23 | If you copy it to a different place , does it leave the blank formulas |
| 24 | That still puts the brakes on pretty hard does n't it , if you stick it in a figure less than thirty one thousand in the last five years . |
| 25 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 26 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 27 | Girls are so much easier , if you put them on a blanket at least all they do is wet it . |
| 28 | I suppose you could if you put them through a junction box or something . |
| 29 | If you put them in a hot room they do n't do so well . |
| 30 | It 's good when you put them in , if you put them in a tumble dryer |