Example sentences of "that if [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 2 | In fact , we know that if we get into a confined space with the intention of defying gravity we are running a risk and have decided to tolerate it . |
| 3 | We had been advised that if we laid on a couple of bottles of champagne he might stay and chat for a while after the show . |
| 4 | Whilst we realise that if we belong to a national organisation , there will be some additional cost to individual Institutes . |
| 5 | Bear in mind however , that if you opt for a natural wood finish your mistakes will all be seen ! |
| 6 | because I can remember , and it 's not that long ago for goodness sake , that if you qualified as a nurse , and will probably tell even the same story to an extent , there was no problem about a job , you were a certified nurse , bang . |
| 7 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 8 | Rumour had it that if you went to a Norman Mailer party , you 'd see people smoking marijuana , covertly passing around a joint behind the bushes at the bottom of the garden . |
| 9 | Do you seriously think that if you went to a school and it was like , you know , all cosy , you know , you had dealers and were n't allowed to smoke , you were n't allowed to drink and you were n't allowed to take drugs do you seriously think anyone would go there ? |
| 10 | But what you 've got to be very careful about is that if you go into a roundabout in that position and you get somebody in that position who is also going the same way and there 's a pinch point there , that 's the danger . |
| 11 | However , the other aspect is that if you go to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out . |
| 12 | But my instructions for the lads have always been that if you go to a job for a lady particularly and then a man comes along and starts to get stroppy , you 'll have to explain to the lady you may have to leave it temporarily and go back . |
| 13 | You know the kind that if you lived in a house which had got an uneven floor when you opened the door the wardrobe falls over towards you . |
| 14 | Thus it came about that if you walked into a bar in Babylon around 2000 B.C. you could have sampled no fewer than 16 different beers . |
| 15 | It has been a matter of debate because there are those in the council who feel that if you put in a contingency provision it will be spent whether it 's needed or not . |
| 16 | Pattie is living proof that if you live with a man , you discover a lot you did n't know when you were just dating him . |
| 17 | The final point to consider is that if you decide on a joint endowment , your girlfriend may decide to cash in her present endowment . |
| 18 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 19 | I suppose the most recent lesson is that if you merge with a company you do n't have the same opportunities for changing its culture as you do if it 's a take-over . |
| 20 | This means that if you start with a random collection of objects above the hole , and some force shakes and jostles them about at random , after a while the objects above and below the hole will come to be nonrandomly sorted . |
| 21 | People always seem to assume that if you work in a library , you should know all there is to know about books . |
| 22 | So that if you say to a primary teacher ‘ Here 's a new toy , here 's a new idea , why not try it ? ’ then they 've got the opportunity to do so without sort of dramatically changing things . |
| 23 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 24 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 25 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 26 | I 've accepted that if I open in a play in Lourdes about the life and times of Mother Teresa , the press will write : ‘ Yiddishe Momma in NUN-sense ’ . |
| 27 | I was told that his legal advisers were concerned that if he applied for a taxation this would amount to an adoption of the bills and prejudice his other objections to the bill . |
| 28 | They threaten to ‘ expose ’ a misdeed , probably a genuine mistake or perhaps complete fiction , but the salvation is that if he goes without a murmur the matter will be hushed up . |
| 29 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the DUC also realized that the mining had to be prevented by preventing prospecting and not waiting to begin opposition with the planning applications for the mining itself : ‘ We always felt that if it came to an actual application for mining that we would lose . |