Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
| 2 | Well if I tell you a little secret about this . |
| 3 | You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it . |
| 4 | It would n't look very good if I gave you a great big rambling piece of paper now to tell you about communications |
| 5 | You see , if I do you a wrong and you forgive me , it 's not because I 've exercised grace , it 's because you 've exercised the grace . |
| 6 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 7 | Do you think you can manage the walk back to Three Colt Street , if I give you a helping hand ? ’ |
| 8 | It would n't come across as very credible if I trusted you a third time . |
| 9 | Fax quality can be tuned — if someone sends you a grotty fax you can apply the ‘ fax vacuum ’ to suck up all the specks and marks . |
| 10 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 11 | What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ? |
| 12 | Again another thing too , is that boosting your ego side , if you s if you set yourself a little bit of a target and you can manage it er can you run up the hill ? |
| 13 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 14 | If you sent me a single orchid , or a pair of |
| 15 | Now if you 're a racing buff , listen out because it 's a superb prize , if you consider yourself a little bit of an expert on the turf that is . |
| 16 | ‘ If you think it a good play , all the better for you . |
| 17 | Do you , I wonder if you think your a good driver , I mean there are , I mean I , I should remind you there are five thousand people killed on Britain 's roads every year , there are sixty three thousand people seriously injured , they reckon that car accidents cost something like five thousand million pounds in Britain every year . |
| 18 | ‘ Afraid your lords and masters will fire you if you allow me a few minutes to put the subject on hold ? ’ |
| 19 | How would you feel if you knitted yourself a nice little doll , out of the most expensive yarn you could buy , and spent the best years of your life working on it to make it as perfect as you could — then it suddenly got up and walked away and turned into something different ? ’ |
| 20 | If you call me a fucking bitch now maybe I 'd forgive you kind of like and you know like in a while I 'd forgive you . |
| 21 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 22 | If you give me a hundred and then I , that 's my hundred from |
| 23 | But if you give me a blank sheet of paper and put a question , I 'm not really gon na tell you what you should include and what you should n't , yeah ? |
| 24 | She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank |
| 25 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 26 | It 's easy when you become attached to birds to think of them in human terms , particularly if you give them a human name . |
| 27 | So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’ |
| 28 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |
| 29 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 30 | And if we make it a decent team — people who are good at — at swimming and riding and all … ’ |