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 .
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