Example sentences of "[conj] if you [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Metaphors produce a clear effect on the reader but that effect will become confused and diminished if you use too many or if you mix them up , as in these lamentable examples : |
| 2 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 3 | Cos if you see the , the theory was that if you left it there indefinitely , er obviously the money declines in real value , does n't it , because you 're getting no increase on it . |
| 4 | Now I have , and I 'm telling you that if you marry him then you 'll be committing the biggest mistake in your brief little life . ’ |
| 5 | Clearly any or all of these are possible but erm er naturally you would understand that if you had them daily by film you would be having you know ninety pieces of paper er and clearly that may not be appropriate at times well times , you know hundreds by the looks of it now but usually times ten at least . |
| 6 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 7 | You got complications some time in that erm when the Six A Twos , the Fours and the Six B routes were running erm it was found sometimes that if you married them together , did a Six A trip one time a Six B , a Two and Four , you could save what we call a bus , you could save a whole bus by marrying them together because routes were only of thirty minute duration from Electric House out to Six A R Gainsborough and back again was , was half an hour . |
| 8 | But the trouble with buying clothes , he finds , is that if you do it alone ( he 's single ) , you can get a bit blinkered . |
| 9 | I went home and told my mum and she said that if you say it again she would come and sort you out . |
| 10 | The nice thing about the Program Manager is that if you tidy it once , you will always be presented with an organised opening screen , provided , of course , that you do not instruct Windows to save changes at the end of each session . |
| 11 | Secure the drive with at least four screws and make sure that if you mount it horizontally the printed circuit board is at the bottom . |
| 12 | So how can you view the fact that somebody else is er , typing , or doing a transcript of er , what we 're actually saying on this tape , we should explain what grotting is , it 's most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary , what grotting actually means . |
| 13 | I think you 'll be going to bed in that soon and if you mess it up then you 'll never sleep . |
| 14 | find stat view very difficult to use myself but er when the time comes , once you 've got a few that are filled in we can erm well I 'll show you how to do an S P S S data file and , and erm so you can bash your data in and if you bring it back we can turn it into a system file and analyze it . |
| 15 | ’ If they have a party to go to , they 'll steal something to wear and if you ask them where all the new clothes are coming from , they just remind you how rich they are , ’ she adds . |
| 16 | We have little electric fibres , elements running through similar to an electric fire and if you crumple it up , and do n't take care of it properly , what happens is you will snap one of the fine filaments . |
| 17 | damp and If you get me back to mum 's for about three o'clock time at the latest to take her to Osborne House . |
| 18 | it 's not sticky and if you get it all over you shows how cold it must of been in the night , the butter wo n't spread |
| 19 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 20 | But as I say , I hate pedals , because the sound of a guitar through an amp is just a beautiful sound , and if you put it through too many other things it just gets weakened and made mock . |
| 21 | ‘ And if you push me down again , ’ she warned quietly , ‘ you might very well find that you have a tiger by the tail . |
| 22 | And if you push me much harder , I 'll wash my hands of the whole thing and tell the Committee I ca n't cope , and make it clear I want you out — out , do you understand ? |
| 23 | And if you sign them up do we get the commission for the |
| 24 | You have to dial the code O six O two if you 're ringing from outside the Nottingham area and if you ring us please have pen and paper with you cos we 'll give you a number to ring back . |
| 25 | Through all my sentences , and if you add them together , I 've done twenty-one , twenty-two months in all , there 's never been one day when I 've kept my mouth shut , without an argument or something . |
| 26 | I certainly advise you to keep asking questions throughout because as I say although they 're speaking in a very very general way the often slip up and give you a particular that you can take advantage and if you lead them on then the more information is available to you . |
| 27 | At the end of the day , a plant 's a plant and if you grow it right , you 'll have no trouble in growing them . |
| 28 | And if you want him back , ’ she added with a final hoot , and a swish of her sluttish robe , ‘ you have till the next full moon , and no longer ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to bed , and if you want me out of here in the morning you 're going to have to throw me out , bodily , just as I am . |
| 30 | And if you run her down , it 's your bloody fault ! |