Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed . |
| 2 | I think that it would be helpful now if I described in some detail what the effect of the banding arrangements will be , as there has been considerable misunderstanding of the provisions . |
| 3 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 4 | Like , if you came across some boys drinking in that driveway [ pointing to a small car park ] , like , first of all you 'd just say , ‘ Come on boys , you 'll have to move on , built-up area and all that . ’ |
| 5 | I hope you find these comments helpful , and if you do at some stage produce such a jacket , please let me know . |
| 6 | So if you feel at some stage that er this is n't for me then one of the things that we regularly hear is I wish I 'd done this course ten years ago . |
| 7 | You would also need to study the lists to see if there is anything conditioning the sounds , i.e. if they are in complementary distribution and belonging to the same phoneme , or if they contrast in some way , thus constituting different phonemes . |
| 8 | If they ask for some cheese , you wo n't get it on the meat counter will you ? |
| 9 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 10 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 11 | If they originate from some person of eminence they have , of course , additional prestige ; but they are prized in their own right because many are beautiful in themselves and are representative of their time and place . |
| 12 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 13 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 14 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
| 15 | If it amounts to some sort of ‘ machine privacy ’ , is that at all suggestive for the question of consciousness ? |