Example sentences of "if i [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 2 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 3 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
| 4 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 5 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |
| 6 | I like it brown you know , if I go to a party . |
| 7 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
| 8 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |
| 9 | The ideal is for me to stop out here on me own because , if I go into a unit or something and stop , it 's quite easy to go straight back on the gear . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If I go into a house and it is turned off I get worried . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you mind if I go for a swim ? ’ |
| 13 | If I come to a word like meteorological , that is apt to give me trouble , I discreetly rephrase ! |
| 14 | I can get a lot more atmosphere if I come to a place like this and actually draw what I see . ’ |
| 15 | God knows I do n't want to rot here if I knew of a way out , surely that 's plain . ’ |
| 16 | When I was sure he was alone , I followed him into the bank and while he queued I read a leaflet to see if I qualified for a home mortgage . |
| 17 | If I get into a structure , if I , if I start trying to learn it I 'm gon na do it all . |
| 18 | That 's , that 's just like me that is , if I get into a rhythm and someone gives er , I can do it then , but if I just sit on a page , I think oh how do you do that ? |
| 19 | And normally if I get near a computer it goes wrong . |
| 20 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 21 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 22 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 23 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me . |
| 26 | Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not |
| 27 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | So , if I went on a Parma list … |
| 30 | Why , if I went into a kitchen , I would n't know how to light a stove ! ’ |