Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] 're [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So , on the whole , although you 're not a physicist , clearly by your remarks you think that technology and progress in that sense is a good thing , rather than a bad thing .
2 So you 're quite a celebrity . ’
3 ‘ All right , so you 're only a child , and so you find it 's just one more thing .
4 ‘ But ye should n't be standing here , if ye 're not a whore , if ye do n't hiv a stickman — it 's dangerous . ’
5 It is acceptable to wild camp on Dartmoor provided you 're around a mile away from a road .
6 If you 're not a policeman , then who are you ? ’
7 Erm do n't s you know if you 're not a discount man forget that you you just have to say I 'm I 'm gon na use it if I need it .
8 If you 're not a member of the club and you 're not accepted the rituals and people do n't like you , they wo n't tell you and as a result you wo n't be an effective hunter , you wo n't be able to support many wives even if you wanted them and if you have wives what they needed , because if a man does n't feed his wives they , they , they all eventually get up and go , they 'll say two fingers you know , you ca n't feed us .
9 For example a couple of weeks ago there was a thing on tit for tat and this week there 's a fascinating thing on snakes and female sexuality which erm illustrates er some of the points I 'll be , I 'll , I 'll be making and although as Sue rightly says erm , most of the articles in Nature are rather technical and difficult to understand if you 're not a specialist they do make concessions to the rest of us by publishing very often erm summaries er in the first part of the journal erm and there is one on this and er I can recommend that .
10 I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know .
11 Life 's hard enough to bear if you 're not a genius .
12 No but when you doing with them trainers if you 're not a ragger You 've got there and they 're sweet .
13 If you 're not a manager or well in with the directors it 's very hard .
14 If you 're not a lover of platform games it could be a wee bit tedious .
15 Any of our holidays suit people by themselves , whether 18 or 80 , though Dinghy Paxos seems the favourite , closely followed by the house parties if you 're not a sailor .
16 Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us .
17 Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us .
18 If you 're not the patient but are visiting someone in hospital and ca n't afford the fares , ask your Social Security office if you can get help .
19 If you 're not the kind of person who is used to daydreaming , try a simple one first .
20 If you 're not the man I love and if you do n't love me , then I am not available . ’
21 ( Scots get very querulous if you 're not the person they thought they were ringing . )
22 If you 're really in favour of something , you vote for it twice but if you 're just a bit in favour of it you vote once .
23 ‘ You sound as though you think the travellers are all good as gold if you 're just a bit nice to them . ’
24 Sister will give you a certificate , and you 'll need a follow-up next time you come if you 're still a bit sore .
25 I know it wo n't be enough for me and Angela cos you 're not a salad .
26 that 's what it is cos you 're still a baby really .
27 S thirty one , if we book it in advance we can get in S thirty one downstairs in the canteen , cos we 're only an hour and half , two hours meeting
28 If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients .
29 You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be .
30 Now , in West Caulder th the charge erm amounted this year to forty pound , that 's for nineteen ninety one cos they 're always a year behind .
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