Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact you sound as if you 've hardly a minute to yourself between looking after the grandchildren and caring for your husband . |
2 | I mean you , you even get interest just , if you 've only a bit in at least ten have n't ya ? |
3 | You know if you get maybe a week of fairly hard frost |
4 | ‘ If you stay here a bit longer , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ and if you ride schooling satisfactorily , I do n't see why you should n't eventually have a mount in an amateur race , if you put your mind to it . ’ |
5 | Arriving at Verdun in May , he found the unit he was relieving had lost forty per cent of its effectives ; ‘ If you stay here a month , which is normal , ’ they warned him , ‘ you will lose half of yours too . ’ |
6 | But if you sit here a moment , I will comb out your hair , and you may keep the comb . |
7 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |
8 | So if you play twice a week you need to restring the racket twice a year . |
9 | So if you give away a tenth on the start , you 've given nearly half a second per run , and most competitions are either two , three or four runs , cumulative time , so , you know , if you give away a couple of tenths every time at the end of the day you 're going to be a second down . |
10 | Mr Staton always takes a group one so if you say just a minute I 'd like one too . |
11 | No , we 'll wait for the opportunity outside , if we wait here a month and more . |
12 | Okay and if we put perhaps a water tank here and the water 's trying to get out and we 've got these two big pipes , go through one big pipe and one little pipe . |
13 | Brazil will fill Wembley next March and if they show just a fraction more ambition near goal it will be a night to remember . |
14 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
15 | Even those who dissent are required to act as if they agree once a course of action has been decided upon , and if there is blame , it is shared by all . ’ |