Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
| 2 | If I died on this hillside , I would not even know where or when the hillside was . |
| 3 | ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff . |
| 4 | Yet if I concentrated on each footstep , I should soon be safely home . |
| 5 | For the simple reason you know you one of the if someone starts on one person in our group all the rest of the group can get together and get them . |
| 6 | If somebody gets on that list , do they get substitution from personnel , or do they . |
| 7 | If she went on this way , you 'd be able to pick her up soon . |
| 8 | For example she would be allowed to speak to Prince Charles on the telephone if she put on two pounds . |
| 9 | The , because it 's being pushed back , cos the opposite force , when you push , something else always pushes back with erm if you push on this table , |
| 10 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
| 11 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
| 12 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
| 13 | Cos you could n't remember if it was March or April if you remember on that M O T certificate . |
| 14 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 15 | It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association . |
| 16 | If you put all the fines and that in the middle if you land on free parking you can keep it . |
| 17 | If you concentrate on punishing criminals , you 're still leaving most crimes unsolved , and it is prevention that people are concerned about . |
| 18 | Yes , I mean you put your finger on an important problem here that we need to discuss and that is that if you concentrate on human beings in general , and this is true on our own society but I , I think it 's true of just about all societies and it 's emphatically true of primal hunting adult societies then men do make a lot of parental investment do n't they ? |
| 19 | ‘ But if you go on this charter , Father will let Thessy go . ’ |
| 20 | And if you work on that presumption , and I 'm not suggesting you creep around frightened of your own shadow going at a slow speed , just wor working with deliberation and making sure you move through the situation competently , but do n't take anything for granted . |
| 21 | You are allowed an immediate ten percent discount if you want on this product but |
| 22 | If you sat on that bend for long enough you 'd be sure to see something . |
| 23 | Or some years ago , if you travelled on Southern Region trains , the tennis star Ann Haydn Jones would beam her endorsement of Biostrath elixir . |
| 24 | If you go to a fancy-dress party as a Turkish dancer , you can expect a good time ; if you travel on public transport late at night in such a get-up it will probably cause nothing but trouble . |
| 25 | If you decide on hanging fabric from the wall consider what sort of fabric will suit your room best , the choice is large — cotton , silk , felt and many others . |
| 26 | While this is less common now you can fit phone sockets all around the house , the hall still provides a useful central place for a phone , and if you decide on this option , you will need a chair , table and space for directories . |
| 27 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 28 | But we could not draw these conclusions if we relied on external norms , on general historical information as codified in historical textbooks , or on our own ‘ intuition ’ . |
| 29 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 30 | Thus , if we operate on traditional assumptions about the nature of law we are left with a political strategy in relation to international law which assumes either that law is effective ( by definition ) or that it is potentially effective ( so that while it may not deserve the name ‘ law ’ it is at least potentially deserving of that description ) . |