Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [v-ing] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade & Travel kindly gave me a fez ‘ for my daughter ’ , which resulted in a complaint from one colleague that if I was going to invent one offspring why not a few more so that all the staff could have fezzes . |
| 2 | Er if I 'm going to give two weeks after anyway for the Councils , I do n't really think it makes a great deal of difference whether it be Friday er afternoon or Monday afternoon . |
| 3 | I 'm damned if I 'm going to have one lung ! ’ |
| 4 | if you 're wanting to produce two hundred of those I mean if we colour photocopy and you 're talking about forty five pence each |
| 5 | So , if you 're going to find thirty per cent of six hundred first |
| 6 | After all , if you 're going to have one blood test , you might as well have them all . ’ |
| 7 | It was wonderful if you were going to service five or ten artists , but one artist did n't need all this . |
| 8 | Say if we I mean if , if we 're paying say two hundred pound a month on a mortgage |
| 9 | ‘ If they 're going to keep fifteen per cent , then I 'm going to stop showering money on those bitches — in fact , I 've already started to cut back . |
| 10 | And then once you 've got that it does n't matter what it does n't matter if they 're asking to make fifty three point five or whatever . |
| 11 | Other essays are damaged by what appears to be an opposite problem , but is actually a result of the same lack of structure : they read as if they are trying to solve two or more problems at once . |
| 12 | It surely is n't too much to ask — not if it 's going to make two little girls happy and contented ? ’ |
| 13 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |
| 14 | Ms Botwin disagrees : ‘ Problems are inevitable because you 're trying to bring two very different individuals , and sometimes many more , into some kind of intimacy , which means differing values and all kinds of compromises . |
| 15 | Because it 's going to finish one of those days it 's going to be |
| 16 | While he was trying to read one of the tail rotor struck it and anti-torque control was lost . |
| 17 | But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not . |
| 18 | His voice , which sounds like a male version of Dietrich 's , trips over itself when he is trying to communicate one of his many enthusiasms . |
| 19 | Even as he was preparing to uproot millions of peasants and to destroy their homes , Ceauşescu praised their patriotism in terms ringing with irony : ‘ In the toughest times , their forefathers did not desert the land where they were born , but in brotherhood with it , with the mountains , fields , rivers and great woods , they unflinchingly remained in these parts , defending their being , their right to free existence . ’ |