Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If I concentrate 20,000 men , ’ wrote Bessières , worn out in the north by 1811 , ‘ all my communications are lost and the insurgents make great progress . |
2 | Now I ca n't remember , if I go one way I 'm gon na finish back up in |
3 | If I go ten times as fast , I get there in one tenth of the time . |
4 | But if I Saw Three Ships was in there because it was one of the few in six eight time . |
5 | But if I come one day and Liverpool are from the league , I |
6 | ‘ Ca n't think what would happen to the shop if I take one day off . ’ |
7 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
8 | If I write one digit per second , how long will it take me to write out all the numbers from 1 up to 1991 ? |
9 | I answered every thing and I seem , I think I got quite a few right , I mean I do , I , if I got fifty percent on that I 'd be very pleased . |
10 | And see if I got five centimetres five . |
11 | I 've thought guaran two machines you 're guaranteed for four years then , cos they did n't write the serial number down , so if I got two machines and it goes faulty I just send it back and say this machine 's faulty , they do n't know how many I 've got |
12 | Yeah although it did n't , it did n't I w I was n't too concerned about it , I thought well you know I 'm resting er and er I 'm the sort of person who only needs about six hours , if I get six hours I 'm okay erm , you know , on a regular basis I 'm talking about . |
13 | I said , Well I think it 'll be a miracle if I get nine interviews because the quota is far too tight . |
14 | Alexandra , if I had two legs as you have , if I were whole and young and healthy , do you suppose I should be content to moon through the days , dabbling at this and that , as you do ? |
15 | So if I had if I had one course to go along and find approximately how many adverts for it ? |
16 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
17 | If I had one wish in the world it would be to stop all this hurt and pain I 'm causing . |
18 | It is only natural that his pace has slowed and perhaps that gazelle-like mind , which was such an influence on the young George Best , may have dulled , but if I had eleven Dave Doyles in my side then we would make the Guinness Book Of Records and cause referees and opponents utter confusion . |
19 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
20 | They asked me if I had 30 pieces of silver , to pay for my disloyalty . |
21 | Like I mean if I like five minutes we 're all down |
22 | ‘ I said in court that I might see 200 such challenges if I attended four games in a week — and I stand by that . |
23 | You would n't notice if I grew two heads and a beard . ’ |
24 | Erm if I put two times brackets three add six it does make a difference . |
25 | And if I put six weeks , now this 'll overlap slightly with the present one , that does n't matter the D S S do n't give two hoots from that point of view , and that 'll then run out six weeks , which is about the beginning of September |
26 | Crikey , I could understand it if I ate four meals a day . |
27 | I would always be ‘ starting the diet tomorrow ’ and if I ate one thing ‘ out of order ’ , the diet would collapse and I would eat everything in sight until I could hardly move . |
28 | I 've got to make allowances you see cos I 've got to fill the day f with jobs for the other lads , so if I allow two hours I 've got to fill the other six . |
29 | If I buy eight pints , right this will do |
30 | If I buy three tins of beans I lock two away . |