Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | " But I suppose one of us ought to stay awake ; and if I take the first turn it 'll give me a chance to have a look at your paw , Hlao-roo . |
| 2 | I put er er if I put the first letter of it , er er it 's S that 'll search it and it 'll say Sarah work |
| 3 | if she had the first sign of anything . |
| 4 | Okay if you said the first one was saw , |
| 5 | If you control the first link in the food chain — the seed — you are well on the way to controlling the whole food chain . |
| 6 | So if you take the first one immediately before you go to bed , if your blood pressure does go down rather a lot , it does n't matter cos you 're lying down , you 'll |
| 7 | And I said , if you take the first dose tonight . |
| 8 | But you would n't have C command , I mean that if you take the first structure in seven , that 's just the one in T three . |
| 9 | The position is , looking at appendix one , and if you take the first triangle , which has got nineteen ninety three , ninety four below it , that 's showing that we started off with no clients , and then by the end of the year we expect to have a number of people in our care , receiving services , to which we have a degree of commitment . |
| 10 | But it , yeah , I mean I quite take all of these qualifications but if sh if you take the first couple of paragraphs does n't it seem to be a call to , to radical land reform ? |
| 11 | ‘ No , I 'm not , and if you knew the first damn thing about Accident and Emergency you would know I was n't ! ’ she snapped . |
| 12 | ‘ If you knew the first thing about Accident and Emergency — ’ Oh , Lord , let me be dreaming … |
| 13 | So if you like the first quarter will probable it 'll be pro rata that 's going to be less because it 's it 's only part of . |
| 14 | So , if you play the first version , those Brownies with more than one egg should give their ‘ spare ’ ones to those who have n't got one . |
| 15 | But if you overwrite the first twenty factory patches , there 's a procedure allowing you to call them up again anyway ( as per most digital devices ) , so all 's not lost . |
| 16 | Do n't worry if you missed the first one last week , just make sure you get next week 's issue — it will have another voucher inside , but that will be the last one . |
| 17 | Moreover , if we adopted the first solution and applied it throughout , e would become ( the first three elements have been assumed zero ) unc which is clearly quite unacceptable for the later measurements . |
| 18 | Strach said before the match ‘ if we get the first goal , then there 's only gon na be one winner ’ — fair enough , but you 've got to get the first goal . |
| 19 | Good so if we cut the first into twelfth what how many pieces would they get out of that 's be twelve pieces altogether okay . |
| 20 | If we take the first sentence of extract ( I ) as S , and present it below as ( 2a ) , we can also present the negation of S , as ( 2b ) , and the logical presupposition , S' , as ( 2c ) . |
| 21 | So that what we did was , first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps , what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er , and then we 'll go through the others . |
| 22 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 23 | The celebrations that marked United 's third major Cup — four if you count the European Super Cup — in two calendar years could just be a rehearsal if they land the First Division title in the next three weeks . |
| 24 | When cooking with the children we want to finish with something eatable , so we are likely to add the liquid carefully ourselves , but we could let children experiment with the play-dough and if they make the first lot too soggy , more flour and salt can be added without much trouble until they make a ‘ workable ’ dough , and there can be plenty of conversation about too much , too little , a little more , a lot more and enough . |
| 25 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 26 | ‘ Well , if it does the first out 'll be the dockers and railwaymen . |
| 27 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 28 | Quinn can give the bookmakers a caning today if he scores the first goal of the game . |
| 29 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 30 | He knows that if he fails the first time , he 'll win the second time , if not the third time . |