Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb base] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right double the speed , if I drive at a hundred and twenty . |
| 2 | Erm what would happen if I drive at a tenth of the speed ? |
| 3 | If I drive at a tenth of the speed , is it gon na take me longer or is it gon na take me is it gon na be quicker ? |
| 4 | Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not |
| 5 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 6 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 7 | If you stare at a Rottweiler it thinks you are challenging it and goes for you immediately , knocking you down and tearing your throat out . |
| 8 | Read for a while , then do some writing or some research browsing in a library ; this can reduce the effect of strain or tiredness with long bouts of writing , something which is particularly important for health reasons if you work at a computer . |
| 9 | If you look at a dissection of the human arm you can see that the string-like tendons which attach to the fingers are joined further back in the arm , to the muscles . |
| 10 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 11 | If you look at a bar code it will normally be accompanied by a long number ( usually eight or thirteen digits long ) . |
| 12 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 13 | Jones said : ‘ If you look at a war , there was always the lad who carried the flag , or the emblem of a country . |
| 14 | The Club Eighteen Thirty idea is much along similar lines , and if you look at a Club Eighteen Thirty brochure , the sort of activities people do together , bringing people together . |
| 15 | If you look at a baby they 're totally out of proportion and they have huge heads do n't they ? |
| 16 | 15 If you look at a tree and turn through 300° as shown , how much more do you have to turn to face the tree again ? |
| 17 | If you look at a pie chart of how public money is spent in this country , it 's difficult to find the slice that is the arts . |
| 18 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |
| 19 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 20 | Because if you look at a problem , and you read through , have someone to work it out you say yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah , and that 's yeah obvious . |
| 21 | Erm if you look at a river that 's working run running quickly down from the mountains |
| 22 | But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what |
| 23 | This does n't come automatically to a dyslexic person very often , and we also look at letters from left to right , but if you look at a u and then turn it upside down in your mind , you have an n , or h and y can be reversed to turn into each other , if you like , in the same way . |
| 24 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 25 | If you look at a department like the Director and Engineers department , every letter in fact has underneath it the City Engineer , even if its signed by somebody else . |
| 26 | Even now most scholarly journals pay nothing and you are lucky to get a fee if you talk at a conference . |
| 27 | If you arrive at a practice ground or driving range with a whole jumble of ideas , you have little chance of achieving positive results . |
| 28 | Everybody knows if yi laugh at a man in That Way he will wilt for ever , wo n't he ? |
| 29 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |
| 30 | If we look at a random list of typical game structures we shall find that they reflect some of life 's common interactions and are obviously just as important in drama . |