Example sentences of "i [verb] if [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 2 | Well she says if you 'd of come to Sandra 's she 'd make you something , I says I know Eileen and so would I as well , I says I would n't have anybody coming in and bringing them sandwiches , I mean if somebody knocked on the , on our door one day from Queensbury and we did n't know they were coming and they 'd brought sandwiches with them |
| 3 | Yes , I think I mean if one goes into corruption one could spend an awful long time . |
| 4 | Er yeah , well you know we were rough because , but I mean if we got into a fight , there we there were no gang warfare . |
| 5 | I mean if we look at I mean the woman 's erm the portrayal of female politicians I think is a very good case in point . |
| 6 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 7 | Yeah , well I suppose any , I mean if they go to London or Manchester or , or er I , I think they 're gon na produce something rather like th the books you buy for your kids when they 're young , you know . |
| 8 | cos I mean if they walked into here on stood on that bar hundred and twenty people |
| 9 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 10 | Well I would of , I would of thought that , I mean if your gon na take something out that that 's sort of size all well and good , but I mean it wo n't even dispense will it ? |
| 11 | I mean if you listen to the antiques . |
| 12 | I mean if you walk into the station on a day wanting to get on a train there are still several different fares you can pay . |
| 13 | I , yo i , I mean if you use in one . |
| 14 | Now the odds on the tote , I mean if you looked at the , I did n't bet on the National , cos I did n't like the odds . |
| 15 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 16 | Everything , I mean if you go in the afternoon and you go early you can have a lovely dinner for fifty P |
| 17 | I mean if you go round the motorways , every other car is a Rover car . |
| 18 | okay , so if I mean if you come to me and see and say we wan na exchange on tomorrow |
| 19 | Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem . |
| 20 | I mean if you wanted to be really obscure |
| 21 | So even if you did n't have a protractor , I mean if you wanted to be really fussy and find out exactly you could measure it and say , ooh that 's actually , it 's not eighty that 's seventy nine and this is a hundred and one so she spends a pound and a penny on sweets and she saves seventy nine . |
| 22 | I mean if you belong to a church you do something to make it look tidy do n't you ? |
| 23 | If you if you were going into I mean if you specialized in patisserie or something where you 're chucking a lot of the stuff out . |
| 24 | I mean if you think about it it was just an impossible task to do it sort of fairly or so that everybody felt all right about it and also that you know if it 's your own children you 're having to choose presents you know the who whole idea was sort of very very difficult really . |
| 25 | Erm well a lot of them are charged part I mean if you think of let's say the neutron , it smashes into a uranium atom which is a big , really massive nucleus , and splits it up . |
| 26 | There 's o it 's , I mean if you think of languages , it 's dead simple , maths . |
| 27 | It just ca n't be , be the , I mean if you think of all the , I mean like say you 've got a , a , a sort of er cockney expression for if he 's got syphilis might be something like you know Johnny Rotten 's kissed him or something you know , there must be things like that , you know , there must be loads of things like that . |
| 28 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
| 29 | I mean if you look at it now without the dining table |
| 30 | I mean if you look at it that way |