Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |
2 | " 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 . |
3 | 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 |
4 | if she had the first sign of anything . |
5 | But if you remember the last time they sent us a parcel er |
6 | Okay if you said the first one was saw , |
7 | ( The golden rule for recording : get it down , even if you miss the next nugget . ) |
8 | If you control the first link in the food chain — the seed — you are well on the way to controlling the whole food chain . |
9 | Now one of the major issues that we 're concerned about of course is the overtime erm which is , if you review the last three months of the overtime which we did the other day , erm we obviously , we spent the annual budget erm allowance . |
10 | 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 |
11 | And I said , if you take the first dose tonight . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 ? |
15 | ‘ 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 . |
16 | ‘ If you knew the first thing about Accident and Emergency — ’ Oh , Lord , let me be dreaming … |
17 | 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 . |
18 | If you flatten the 3rd and the 7th degrees of D major , you have D dorian . |
19 | Er , if you did the eleventh , the fourth or the eleventh |
20 | Well , if you think the last one was bad wait till you see this one . |
21 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
22 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | If you missed the last two issues but want to enter the competition , you can send off for vouchers 1 and 2 . |
27 | If we go the second week in September , then that way we can |
28 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | He was defiant yesterday , saying : ‘ If we win the next three matches we could still go through and we will have a much stronger side . |