Example sentences of "if you 've [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The truth is , Ah suppose , if ye 've got a berg sailin' down on ye and ye 're trapped in the ice there 's no thickness of steel that will save ye from gettin' crushed .
2 Yet you 're looking as if you 've lost a bit off your back .
3 Sometimes if you 've made a mistake and the parallel I 'm drawing is with the Jewish community in Jesus time .
4 Avoid apologizing if you 've made a criticism in good faith .
5 I just think women find humour sexy and if you 've made a woman laugh you 've won half the battle .
6 Well there 's been some scepticism about the symbolism of , of weddings there 's also some scepticism about the reality of making that vow forever , er , which I personally have sympathy with cos I do n't see how you can say you 're going to do anything forever , but I suppose if you 've made a vow you 've got to stick with it .
7 Then you can see if you 've made a fuss for nothing . ’
8 If you 've ticked a mixture of areas it could be that you just like to learn in lots of different ways .
9 If you 've completed a project , big or small , that would interest other readers , then sent it to us with a picture .
10 " If you 've seen a tile , pick it up straight away and come back . "
11 If you 've seen a hospital with no water or power , no facilities — what child is going to survive this ?
12 Now if you 've done a prisoner 's dilemma you do n't have to come .
13 This is easier if you 've kept a note of the date of the first day of your last period .
14 If you 've missed a year can you put in twice the amount the following year ?
15 Much more tricky than knowing if you 've found a badger sett , is knowing whether or not it is still active .
16 I mean as usual with financial journalism , er i it 's somewhere in between , I mean endowments are having a bad run at the moment and that 's because they 've paid out such excellent bonuses in the past so if you 've had a maturity in the last four or five years , you 'll have seen how good they are .
17 Most insurance companies now will specify , if you 've had a burglary , the types of locks and they are now getting quite hot on it and they want good basic security of homes .
18 if you 've had a tracheotomy where would you show off the scar ?
19 got back home and the post 's been in between time and we 've just got this letter for her to attend on February , I wonder if there 's , if you 've had a mix up ?
20 Hope to get you back to school on Monday , it seems awful if you 've had a week off and then your not well .
21 Which is fair enough because one of the things I mentioned about the benefits of er or the things we should try to achieve in retirement or secure in retirement , is that if you 've had a challenge in life whilst you 're working then for goodness sake do n't drop it when you retire .
22 She almost hisses , and Xanthe and Miranda understand this word because one of Miranda 's special treasures , which she keeps in her treasure drawer under lock and key , but has shown Xanthe in a moment of love , is a figure of Jesus on the cross which glows greeny-white under the bedclothes if you 've shone a torch on it beforehand and saturated it with light .
23 If you 've backed a couple of horses , and if you 'll be gone the next day , you stay there like everybody else and listen to the commentaries .
24 If you 've bought a machine from Olympic Technology and you have any queries about the company , write to the official liquidator :
25 If you 've spent a £145,000 on the standard Virage , you do n't want to put your muddy labrador on the back seat , messing up the leather , so it 's much better to actually have some space in the back for it .
26 If you 've skippered a yacht for at least two weeks , including open sea passages , and you can navigate ( take a fix , lay a steer and a course , keep track of your position while tacking to windward ) then you 're experienced enough to enjoy any of our holidays .
27 If you 've signed a contract you have to fulfil it except in the most desperate circumstances .
28 If you 've got a portfolio , then the agency listings give you ahead start in knowing where to send it and how much commission you are likely to earn if your work is accepted .
29 If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there .
30 That 's all very well , you may say , but not if you 've got a boss like mine , or your office has a filing clerk like ours .
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