Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 2 | If you go for second best ( because the pressure is on to fill the job tomorrow , or because you ca n't afford the best ) you will inevitably end up at the bottom of the heap with all the other monkeys . |
| 3 | Depreciation 's been falling now for two or three years as our capital expenditure of depreciable assets has been falling indeed if you look at last year 's net of the nine million pounds purchase of the freehold to fourteen million the year before was only sixteen million erm so as the as the depreciation as the capital expenditure falls the depreciation will also fall that 's one reason . |
| 4 | If you stayed in last night , you were home alone |
| 5 | Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’ |
| 6 | Photocopies or even originals of the News of the World , if they remain from last Sunday , are no substitute for evidence being placed before the Home Secretary so that appropriate action could be taken . |
| 7 | Sixth sense for smack ; would n't know a Poussin if it moved in next door and fucked his daughter . |
| 8 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |
| 9 | With Angel gone there was no need to humble herself and inquire if he had at last returned to work . |
| 10 | If he failed at first , he would know better next time . |
| 11 | If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out . |