Example sentences of "[coord] if i be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Or if I were feeling lyrical that day , I might write , ‘ It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen .
2 I may not answer and if I am doing your mouth I shall tell you so . ’
3 I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt .
4 But I could tell there was no real wish on her part to renew any old ties of love and friendship and if I am going to be honest no real wish on my part either .
5 I get to the border , and I am questioned for hours , endless interrogation , and if I am travelling in a car , they open it up and they search it .
6 I needed a shower and a change of clothes and if I was meeting Werewolf and Sorrel in Vecchio Reccione 's it was wisest to leave Armstrong behind .
7 Any edge that gave me would not last for long , and if I was going to protect my client , if she was my client , I 'd better get on with it .
8 a member of the G M B. I 'm proud to say that I 'm a trade unionist , and I 'm proud to say that I 'm a Socialist , and if I 'm gon na remain that , and if we 're gon na carry that message forward , we 've got ta be on the move , we 've got ta do it , we 've got ta carry it forward , we ca n't afford to muddle our way through .
9 Well you 've got ten fingers and if I 'm gon na
10 It 's my life right now and if I 'm playing well I 'm happy , and if I 'm not then I 'm difficult to life with . ’
11 And if I 'm going to be leafleting thousands of people in conferences , or at least hundreds ,
12 And if I 'm going to be head boy , I ca n't afford to get stale . ’
13 The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave .
14 And if I 'm practising and it sounds good it 'll work for me too .
15 And if I 'm saying I really want to do less for the cracker bar now , because that was hard pushed .
16 ‘ I stay in my room and if I 'm feeling troubled about something I write it out on paper and that helps me to work things out . ’
17 but er , that fibbing git Tim right he 's got a locker next to me , and he 's got velcro on his coat and if I 'm standing at my locker and he takes his coat out of , out of his locker , it always flipping pull my tights with the velcro
18 But if I am competing , on or off the track , I want to win .
19 But if I am going to bring anybody in , then they will have to be somebody I can trust and live in this area . ’
20 I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’
21 But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink .
22 But if I was integrating a sine , it would have come from a cos and the cos should have given me a minus sine .
23 so you close him on his final objection , you listen , you then sell him his objection , right , you sell him his objection , right , you confirm his answer , right , whatever he says to you and his answer you actually confirm it back to him , you do n't interrupt him , right , you do n't guess where he 's at , right and basically if work through a system you 'll get on there , now for me to be able to , to , to , what I 've just said to you is a load of garbage , but if I was sitting I was sitting actually go through each one of these steps and that 's what you term as a closing sequence , you see what I mean ?
24 But if I was studying the daisy family here , I 'd be looking at plants from the size of daisies as we know them , to plants the size of trees .
25 But if I 'm delivering what I think I 'm delivering , your lordship , I 'm an accessory to theft and corruption .
26 But if I 'm moving around slightly like this and you 're having to follow with your eyes as I 'm making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it .
27 But if I 'm ringing you I just hope you answer faster than you did yesterday . ’
28 Now what you want to do in the privacy of your own home in terms of art is one thing , but if I 'm using public money I really need to be able to justify it .
29 but if I 'm thinking about myself then yes I look and I put on make-up
30 You know , when you go straight there , and sometimes you get it , it 's not constructive , you know , but if I 'm getting jumped on , I tend to perhaps jump , jump down on the people below me .
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