Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] if i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 2 | Yes for instance if I |
| 3 | Erm for instance if I feel I 've got to give Philip something er a tin of sweets is acceptable to both to both sexes is n't it ? |
| 4 | When they rise to an equal level , like for instance if I have a choice between going to a woman doctor and a man doctor and they 're both on the GP list , I will choose the woman , because the woman has had to fight tooth and nail , probably , and work much harder , to get at an equal level with the man , so I would suspect that I 'm getting value for and quality there by going for the woman . |
| 5 | Of course he 'd sue me for slander if I made the accusation publicly . |
| 6 | He would n't dare scream for help if I robbed him . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't ask him for help if I were on a sinking ship and he was the only one with a lifebelt ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Please go , ’ Alexandra said , fielding the lion as he plunged at her , ‘ I 'll call for help if I need it . |
| 9 | This is ridiculous I 'm not going to have time for lunch if I do n't go now … |
| 10 | I 'm not particularly interested in this and of course if I leave the magazine Mr Mitchell will leave with me . |
| 11 | Aye of course if I get the test . |
| 12 | I would n't be paid this sort of money if I was a fraud . |
| 13 | I 'm not quite sure , I think most organizations have a certain amount of of sum of money if I can remember from the workshops . |
| 14 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd make us a cup of tea if I had some clean water , ’ Mrs Lennox said . |
| 16 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 17 | I do n't eat breakfast , just a cup of tea and a bit of toast if I can spare it . |
| 18 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 19 | Never ! 'Cos I would die of shame if I retaliated and hit back ; and I would , because I 've levelled men almost as big as you before today , and you know it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think the speakers would give a better quality of sound if I moved them further apart ? ’ |
| 21 | I 'll die of boredom if I live that long — |
| 22 | So there 's not a lot of point if I say well can you tell me what you 're doing ? |
| 23 | I would n't give him the time of day if I could help it . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't ask him for a drink of water if I were dying of thirst . |
| 25 | I interspersed my self-portraits throughout the collection and they gave the whole thing a lot of impact if I do say so myself . |
| 26 | Years later , when I was with Sandford in the Second World War , he told me that people in Addis Ababa had been saying that I would not have one chance in ten of survival if I entered Aussa . |
| 27 | O K , er , let's go back to Andrew , how much would I pay for my fifty thousand pounds of cover if I wanted to pay annually , will it cost me two hundred or two forty ? |
| 28 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 29 | Will I have a good enough share of time if I allow myself to listen first and tell second ? |
| 30 | Yeah , but I 'll tell you what I 'll laugh like hell if I get the iron ! |