Example sentences of "if i [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course he 'd sue me for slander if I made the accusation publicly . |
| 2 | On the other hand I was afraid that if I made the driver sound too important he might end up under the wheel of a bus instead of behind one . |
| 3 | ‘ But that would look rude — as if I thought the house was n't warm enough , which it really is with all that paraffin burning away . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Would it make you feel any better if I took the cardigan down to her , ’ said Yanto . |
| 5 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 6 | ‘ We are a bit thin on the ground up front but if I stuck the cleaner and laundry lady out there I know they would give me 110 per cent . ’ |
| 7 | Early on in his race for the White House Bill Clinton said : ‘ If I win the race it will be on the coat tails of women . ’ |
| 8 | P.S. If I win the record voucher I would like you to buy ‘ Pills , Thrills , And Bellyaches ’ and send it to de management of the Well Woman Clinics Plc . |
| 9 | Yeah , if if I know , if I remember the number . |
| 10 | So when the five year come up I 've no longer insurance alright , er I so i c if I change the pump costs about two hundred so I s so I said |
| 11 | If I felt the conference was a political one I would be the first one to pull out . ’ |
| 12 | Before I call the proposer and the seconder of the motion on the Loyal Address , it may be for the convenience of hon. Members if I inform the House that the proposed subjects for debate for the rest of this week and for next week are as follows : |
| 13 | That is , if I survive the war . ’ |
| 14 | I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me . |
| 15 | If I nail the gun , that makes me Joey 's friend , right ? ’ |
| 16 | If I saw the duck-rabbit as a rabbit , then I saw : these shapes and colours ( I give them in detail ) — and I saw besides something like this : and here I point to a number of different pictures of rabbits . |
| 17 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 18 | By Ixmar , if I knew the scoundrel 's whereabouts , I 'd have his guts ! |
| 19 | Suddenly , out o' the blue , 'e asked me if I knew the Tunnel Mob . |
| 20 | If I knew the way back , then I could walk , but I do n't think I know the way from here . |
| 21 | If I knew the answer I would put it right . |
| 22 | ‘ If I knew the answer to that , I 'd be a manager in the First Division instead of a player in the Third . ’ |
| 23 | As the two of us struggled with an awkward table at the 3p.m. closure of a day in Christian Aid Week 1992 , my companion asked me if I knew the answer to number 13 in Duncan Innes ' C.A. Quiz . |
| 24 | ( Perhaps if I knew the language , I would not have time for these facile analogies . ) |
| 25 | If I betrayed the pact between myself and The Fat Controller he would undoubtedly destroy me , fillet me , excarnate me in the screaming void . |
| 26 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 27 | If I take the rest away and try and Who normally sticks one in the library , or |
| 28 | And if I take the book away , and so the pen is trying to push the book over . |
| 29 | ‘ But if I take the job , ’ she blurted , goaded by the idea that he found her lack of sophistication amusing , ‘ it wo n't be because I like the house . |
| 30 | I shall only be able to convince another person that such-and-such is the case if I take the trouble to present evidence which is available to both my challenger and myself . |