Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb base] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 2 | If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me . |
| 3 | They are good for your career , if you write on a specialised topic , ie in your case , related to home economics . |
| 4 | if you land on a certain square you can keep it ! |
| 5 | If you sit on a chair next to a mirror , without the cosmetic benefits of tights of course , you will see the skin texture clearly . |
| 6 | If you sit on a cliff edge on Sea-lion Island to enjoy your pack lunch , as likely as not you will be joined by one or more of these amusing birds . |
| 7 | If you go on a st |
| 8 | If you go on a stat it says no airlines ! |
| 9 | That if you go on a course for which you 're well-motivated , then you 'll do well . |
| 10 | If you insist on a public debate then I suggest you give us your views in a more suitable manner . " |
| 11 | ‘ And that person could be a key witness in our investigation ; but if you insist on a Court Order … ’ |
| 12 | If you embark on a diet , be sure it includes carbohydrates |
| 13 | If you work if you work on a quarter page at three ninety and cos remember you 're telling all this on the phone . |
| 14 | If you work on a seven point five figure , then you get up to twenty seven thousand four hundred and twenty seven hours , erm , before next year , erm , That would leave us with a difficulty I think , because if I were , if we went ahead with the idea of recruiting two people now er we would need to get rid of four of them by , oh four people all together , erm , by er the next financial year , which clearly is not terribly sensible . |
| 15 | Nothing terrible will befall if you eat a piece of pizza — only If you exist on a diet of nothing but pizza . |
| 16 | You should , you should ge , if you look on a map you can , you can judge where |
| 17 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 18 | Most crystals are initially unreachable , but luckily there are several numbered blocks on each level which allow you to build a bridge across the void — if you stand on a block marked ‘ 4 ’ and move off the platform you create a block marked ‘ 3 ’ , the original turning into a standard unmarked jobbie . |
| 19 | If you travel on a flight from another airport or at a different time , or on a different day , a flight supplement is often payable . |
| 20 | The final point to consider is that if you decide on a joint endowment , your girlfriend may decide to cash in her present endowment . |
| 21 | If you decide on a wallpaper , try to use a paper-backed vinyl , a vinyl impregnated fabric paper , or a PVC wallcovering . |
| 22 | if you hop on a bus for thirty two , yeah thirty two |
| 23 | Then if we go on a step further and consider that Paul says the wife 's body does not belong to her alone , that means the husband must have some authority to move the limbs around in various patterns . |
| 24 | If we rely on a notion of speaker , or pragmatic , presupposition , we can simply treat ( 2c ) as a presupposition of the speaker in uttering ( 2a ) . |
| 25 | Some may even have to countenance death , as did the German heptathlete Birgit Dressel , if they embark on a programme of drug-taking . |
| 26 | These , if they proceed on a large scale , can have the damaging effect of taking custom away from the town centre on a substantial scale . |
| 27 | If they agree on a communication , this can occur as an internal ( automatic ) action . |