Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debate and questioning are only threatening if an organization is weak . |
| 2 | You know if you 've , erm do you know if you 've erm recorded it , if you 're like speaking if you like in a group do you put all their names down ? , or just put a group ? |
| 3 | No cos whenever we go in there they 're always moaning if Cliff starts singing or something . |
| 4 | But for those with a relatively static model of the universe and more or less fixed expectations , the discrepancies are deeply troubling if they can not be ignored or resolved by supplementary perceptual categories . |
| 5 | They did n't injure anyone that time — not physically , at any rate — but there must be mothers in Yorkshire who are still wondering if the babies were really sorted out correctly . ’ |
| 6 | When you say , " Do you understand me ? " , you are really asking if you have successfully communicated to the other person what you had in mind . |
| 7 | Aids researchers are now investigating if HIV is somehow triggering the suicide response of protective white blood cells , stripping the body of immunity . |
| 8 | MPs are now wondering if Mr Major can survive . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm only staying if you guarantee that you 're going to pay me . ’ |
| 10 | The Government have done nothing to reassure the public that their proposals for adult education will not be highly damaging if the Bill goes through . |
| 11 | I 'm just seeing if the water 's going up the drains . |
| 12 | It 's alright , I 'm just seeing if there was any tea in it . |
| 13 | I 'm just seeing if I can get these two shelves out . |
| 14 | erm I 'm just thinking if , like when anybody comes to stay |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'm just wondering if it 's my teeth or that it 's just my blood that 's doing it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Erm I 'm just wondering if he ever gets the messages to say I 've phoned . |
| 22 | I 'm just wondering if there that 's related to that scripture that I 've just showed you |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'm just wondering if you 're over egging the pudding there . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 'm just asking if anyone 's interested |
| 27 | ‘ In fact he held me up for so long I 'm now wondering if it was a deliberate act on his part . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No I 've been over Yvonne 's and yeah I said to Yvonne I ai n't got she said you 'd be bloody going if you ca n't get . |
| 30 | A warm , friendly voice is especially reassuring if a partially sighted person ca n't see your expression . |