Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 2 | Yes and there If I If I pull up a bit and back out there . |
| 3 | If I take out a chunk , you can do |
| 4 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 5 | ‘ All sight if I walk up a bit ? he called to Marty , who was leaning forward with his elbow on the wheel and his open palm supporting his chin . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 7 | Well , she thought , it wo n't be difficult to judge how right I am , if I pay out a few yards of line for him . |
| 8 | He held out the clipboard impatiently as if she quibbled over a minor detail . |
| 9 | ass If she starts out a goosegirl she 'll shit on |
| 10 | It is one belief , for example , that a woman will obtain children if she walks around a sacred tree 108 times dally for 48 consecutive days . |
| 11 | Immediately she 'd sensed that this was wrong , that there was nothing for her in this office , and that she 'd be at risk if she stayed around a moment longer than was necessary . |
| 12 | If you wrote up a route between September 1990 and April 1991 it would be helpful if you repeated the description in the new book . |
| 13 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
| 14 | If you pick up a sea cucumber , do so with care , for they have an extravagant way of defending themselves . |
| 15 | I think , she said if you dig down a way it 's dry |
| 16 | Having a meal out , especially if you eat out a lot , needs just as much care and good sense as planning a meal in . |
| 17 | I thought if you hold up a box of Roses chocolates , grin at it and say , ‘ Mmm … great chocolates ! ’ everybody quite correctly will despise you . |
| 18 | If you pass over a tab stop as you move to the left or right , that tab stop will be deleted |
| 19 | Reality says that if you set up a store and you 're undercapitalised , you 're going to go bust . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me . |
| 21 | But quite frankly we 'd prefer it if you put up a bit of a fight as we 're a right sadistic bunch . |
| 22 | If you put down a deposit and the firm goes bankrupt , you 'll become one of the many unsecured creditors who wait for their share-out from the receiver . |
| 23 | The dragons could n't get you through the air-hole ; they could only get you if you put out a foot or a hand , or worst of all your head ; that was when they struck ; bit it off , or pulled you right out and ate all of you . ’ |
| 24 | If you put out a dish of syrup during the summer , it might be days until the first bee found it . |
| 25 | You 'll perhaps only say if you put out a thousand pounds , you 'll possibly get what three hundred pounds back or something like that ? |
| 26 | If you turn over a few chapters in Matthew , into chapter fourteen , you 've got another er watery illustration there , it 's , Jesus is coming towards the disciples , he walking on the water ! |
| 27 | You will be disqualified if you step out a fourth time . |
| 28 | If you took out a unit-linked endowment mortgage some years ago , now is the time to check it out . |
| 29 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 30 | If you take over a farm with poor fences , you will probably feel obliged to stock it before your fencing programme is anywhere near complete . |