Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 2 | I think I 'll I 'll not wait for Er if nothing comes in the post tomorrow I wo n't wait for the conference centre to get in touch with me , I 'll write to them tomorrow and drop it in . |
| 3 | Now what if I support in the main the aims of the Act , there are one or two areas I think that some things are not a good idea . |
| 4 | You know if I got in a |
| 5 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 6 | She said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I got in the way just now , when you wanted to talk about the vineyard . ’ |
| 7 | For a moment another thought crossed my mind — that if I lived in the United States while undertaking an ‘ experiment ’ I might be sued if I failed . |
| 8 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 9 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 10 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 11 | The sharing of genes means that it is possible to sacrifice myself for my sister in such a way that , even if I die in the process , a proportion of my genes will survive in the next generation . |
| 12 | ‘ Mark me well , for I 'll have you and your crowning glory , and the house , and the money , if I die in the attempt ! ’ |
| 13 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 14 | If I stay in the same place for too long I get stale . ’ |
| 15 | if I stay in the right place . |
| 16 | If I throw in the little un , Sid Watkins will be happy to give me twenty quid Yes , I reckon Sid will be glad to see our Ma in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . |
| 18 | For a few seconds , she regarded the coatstand with its disfigured mirror , and then , creasing her brow in bewildered concentration , she thought : If I look in the mirror and do n't see myself , then I 'm a ghost . |
| 19 | I 've accepted that if I open in a play in Lourdes about the life and times of Mother Teresa , the press will write : ‘ Yiddishe Momma in NUN-sense ’ . |
| 20 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |
| 21 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
| 22 | ‘ And although I do n't think I 've played as badly as people have said , I think I can get more out of myself , and more out of others around me , if I play in a midfield alongside Gazza . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think I need 350,000 points to guarantee selection , and I will pass that total if I finish in the top two tomorrow , ’ said Lane . |
| 24 | If I believe in a film I 'll do it . |
| 25 | ‘ And if I live in a factory town , I must speak factory language when I want it . |
| 26 | Mind if I work in the garage today ? ’ |
| 27 | If someone punches in the wrong code more than three times , the alarm sounds automatically . |
| 28 | Someone might say : it is a principle of personal morality that if someone shares in the gains of another 's action he must also share the responsibility for wrongs that other person does . |
| 29 | Rather like a bank 's cash-dispensing machine , the launch-control computer will keep the missiles ' warheads switched off if somebody types in the wrong combination . |
| 30 | If Ah lived in a clapped-out city like this with inflation at two hundred per cent , or whatever it is , Ah 'd dae just about anythin' fur payment in solid US dollars . ’ |