Example sentences of "[prep] if [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , so if it gives of If you heat it in er and it gives of carbon dioxide , have a guess at what it is that we 're heating ? |
| 2 | and I thought it was hysterical , it was the fact that you noticed when you first came here about if somebody liked you they always greeted you by swearing at you |
| 3 | How about if we shared it out between a tenth of us . |
| 4 | I 'll just tell you about if you have it splitting . |
| 5 | what about if she lets us keep the walkman |
| 6 | what about if she lets us keep the walkman 's |
| 7 | Erm how about if I leave you to do that one ? |
| 8 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 9 | The girls screamed ; some gritted their teeth , others stayed cool as if nothing worried them . |
| 10 | We studied the view as if we owned it ; |
| 11 | I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally . |
| 12 | We were reminded , as if we needed it , of another old barker probably on the Air Ministry roof in SW1 , having ordered their Majesties to take good cover . |
| 13 | Miserable wheatears looked as if they wished they had stayed in Africa . |
| 14 | There are a few like myself , who look as if they wished they were n't there , and would like to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | The provision of horses was unexpected , but curiously cheering , because it seemed to show that the giants were sending Floy and Snodgrass off in reasonable style , as if they expected them to return . |
| 16 | Many viewers were ‘ structuring their lives round it ’ and spoke of the characters as if they knew them well ( BBC , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | On the dressing table inside the large bay window all her cosmetics and lotions stood vacantly , as if they knew they would never be used again . |
| 18 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 19 | And as if they knew it they sent another flare up into the sky , so that it glowed bright and cheerful as a street lamp above his path of retreat . |
| 20 | Cecilia turned the pages of her address book , she turned them slowly , she scrutinized them as if they fascinated her . |
| 21 | In his wake were two older men in crumpled uniforms , unshaven clumsy fellows , carrying their rifles gingerly as if they feared they might go off unexpectedly . |
| 22 | Most of the square-skulled men I followed in this way in the streets turned out to have very macho faces , conventionally handsome , proud , even disdainful , as if they felt they alone were the lords and masters of the earth . |
| 23 | Creeping after her as if they stalked her . |
| 24 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 25 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
| 26 | This may be true , and many advertisers of these categories of goods — which tend to account for the majority of advertisements appearing on TV and in major national newspapers and magazines — behave as if they believe it . |
| 27 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |
| 28 | They stayed close to the Oaks , as if they considered it their duty , and they looked as if they might find life a serious business . |
| 29 | I think there 's less risk of you being caught then — Lee 's and your mother 's people are looking for either a single man and woman or two unrelated young people ; it seems as if they think it 's inconceivable that you should have remained together . |
| 30 | " They 're acting as if they think I did it . " |