Example sentences of "[noun] if [pron] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorcas said he thought it would n't do any harm if we gave him a hand , sort of thing , ’ said the nome nervously . |
| 2 | If you want me to identify a fish , remember that a photo , or a drawing , is usually better than a description — and it is no end of help if you give me a clue as to where the fish comes from , even if it 's only the continent . |
| 3 | ‘ I said I would give him my pilot sunglasses if he gave me his weapon . |
| 4 | But how I longed to be gallant , as they say ; to ask her if I might kiss her on both cheeks if I gave her my two violets . |
| 5 | Erm and it 'll also help us to get the the out of your way , we 'll get out of your hair within five or six days if you give us all the businesses . |
| 6 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 7 | seventeen thousand pounds if he gave them a free cup of coffee . |
| 8 | Twenty one minus X If I give you some numbers to add up . |
| 9 | He 'll eat shit on bloody shovel if you give it him ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I told Tremayne there 'll be trouble if he gives you any of my rides . ’ |
| 12 | You 'd like mink if somebody gave it to you . |
| 13 | Oh there was no such thing if they gave you the money , you might nip off . . |
| 14 | I wondered if he would let me turn the handle if I gave it to him . |
| 15 | And I told y I said to y er before he did that I said , would it cause a client a problem if we gave them back some money ? |