Example sentences of "if it be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If it is him , he had it all along . |
2 | If it is him that 's off then it not TOO bad , ( apolgies to Halvard ) at least it 's not Macca or Speed ( or even Mr Newsome ) . |
3 | Clemens was a master of the frankly bawdy song and the song à double entente — witness his musically delicious ‘ Jaquin jaquet ’ , his enormously popular ‘ Frisque et gaillard ’ , and his ‘ Entre vous filles de XV ans ’ ( ‘ Tetin poignant , bouche riant , connin mouflant ’ ) which provided the model for the most scandalous of Lassus 's Masses — but his ‘ Je prens en gre ’ ( if it is his : one source attributes it to ‘ Jennequin ’ ) is a gravely beautiful love-song . |
4 | It is striking that Papinian ( if it is he ) emphasizes the value of the decision only in terms of its effect on the family expectations of father and children as to how mother will behave . |
5 | He 's not yet sure if it 's operable , but if it is he wants me to take the case . |
6 | If it is you could win £500 . |
7 | Begin keeping a record of all events at this point ; hopefully it wo n't be needed , but if it is you 've made a good start . |
8 | If it is you can not sue ( there are exceptions to this but they are rare ) . |
9 | Peter called to him : ‘ Lord if it is you , tell me to come to you over the water . ’ |
10 | If it is you , then do this for me . |
11 | If it is you have n't got a chance in hell . |
12 | Now what happens when you go to the station on a Sunday to park your car and find all the spaces are taken up by a car boot , er the whole think is a nonsense and er frankly somebody should tell British Rail so er I wonder if this is Chairman a shot across the bows of er rail privat privatisation and if it is I welcome it . |
13 | Erm if it is I wish the Ford Motor Company gave as much money to the Labour party as they do the I L O but one of the points they made there is that in their opinion the unemployment figure in Britain is approximately four to four and a half million people because of the way the figures are worked out and the goal post of working have been changed by successive Ministers of Employment since nineteen seventy nine . |
14 | ‘ I 'm not sure if it is one , but if it is I do n't think you 'd laugh . ’ |
15 | Cos if it is I 'm getting a new one . |
16 | If it is it must have been with croutons , since those lumpy floaters were n't there when the liquid-lunch-from-hell embarked on its inward journey . |
17 | Still , there is plenty to justify Scrooge s charge of humbug in our present day Christmas practice , and I sometimes wonder if it is us who need to be frightened out of our effervescent joy . |
18 | I went to me doctor as well , but if I go to that doctor with a swollen ankle or somethin' , she gives me antibiotics , if it 's me back , it 's antibiotics , if it 's a cold , antibiotics . |
19 | I suppose if it 's theirs perhaps they ca n't do anything about it . |
20 | no , i i if it 's her that dreamt it . |
21 | if it 's her . |
22 | I do n't mind if it 's yous guys . |
23 | so is this right ? not , should we try avoiding we and talk about I cos it , if it 's we it might be somebody else you see |
24 | ‘ Let me see if it 's him that 's bleeding . |
25 | ‘ O'course t is none o ’ my business but you wo n't find Maurice if it 's him you want to see ; he went off in his li'l truck when we was sitting down to our dinners . |
26 | I mean even if she walks out he does n't , no court in the land would give him the house if it 's hers . |
27 | We played a well we went to the open last year , quite a few of us , and we 're going again er and w It was n't a particularly nice day but we thought if it 's it was a nice day , this would really be a lovely course . |
28 | I think it 's more erm if it 's it 's difficult to know exactly because people shift into different repertoires . |
29 | they always understand things much better if it 's it 's something concrete so if you 've got simple harmonic motion and you can relate it to something physical |
30 | Erm , but if it 's I do n't know anything about the weather , so I could n't look at that and analyse it in any way . |