Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [verb] if " in BNC.
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1 | I am often asked if exercise is essential to weight loss . |
2 | erm I 'm just thinking if , like when anybody comes to stay |
3 | I 'm just thinking if you did lots and lots of little bits , I think you 'll find it quite difficult to make the rest of it coherent . |
4 | I 'm just seeing if the water 's going up the drains . |
5 | It 's alright , I 'm just seeing if there was any tea in it . |
6 | I 'm just seeing if I can get these two shelves out . |
7 | I 'm just wondering if it 's my teeth or that it 's just my blood that 's doing it . |
8 | They seem as what women we are getting today er just want social er and yet my own particular guild , I 'm just wondering if it 's the secretaries that we 're , we 're jus it 's the good secretary we need of course really because , er this sounds really awful of me , it sounds a bit big-headed does n't it you know we would , we would say . |
9 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
10 | and I 'm just wondering if maybe , maybe we will just have to do a wee bit of work and try and get something on the go to see if somebody will |
11 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
12 | Erm I 'm just wondering if he ever gets the messages to say I 've phoned . |
13 | I 'm just wondering if there that 's related to that scripture that I 've just showed you |
14 | Well it is n't erm , I 'm just wondering if , ah , we are getting , erm the right service from Sharon the cleaner , that we are paying for . |
15 | I 'm just wondering if you 're over egging the pudding there . |
16 | I want er , I 'm just asking if er , anyone 's got er , comments to make to Vince and then Vince will reply to them , that 's the point , he 's got to reply to some of the comments er , that er Simon has made and then we 'll come to what we want our response to be . |
17 | I 'm just asking if anyone 's interested |
18 | I 'm often asked if I get sick of making presentations and signing autographs but I always answer by saying that the time to worry is when no-one wants me to do these things . |
19 | ‘ I 'm only staying if you guarantee that you 're going to pay me . ’ |
20 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
21 | ‘ In fact he held me up for so long I 'm now wondering if it was a deliberate act on his part . ’ |
22 | Well I 'm fairly discomknockerated if the truth be told . |
23 | I was rather wondering if we might not arrange a meeting . |
24 | And er I was well known if I might say and proud of this Michael . |
25 | I was just thinking if it was on a page you could have got that |
26 | I was just thinking if we take her out that afternoon . |
27 | No , I know I was just thinking if I could ring him up now . |
28 | Like I was just saying if we were going to a |
29 | I was just wondering if there would be time to fetch you down here before lunch . |
30 | I was just wondering if I could change the timetable of my visit but it is n't important … ’ |