Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 'll be lucky if I make it there ! |
2 | If I change it once in one place only then automatically every program on the network is using the new version of the business rule . |
3 | Do you mind if I take it now ? ’ |
4 | Apart from anything else , this project is worth a great deal financially and I 'd be a fool to myself if I forfeited it just because the client is an obnoxious , egotistical swine . |
5 | If I get it wrong , I feel it with my whole body . |
6 | And if I get it really really cheap I might put it back into next week 's auction . ’ |
7 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
8 | Oh yes , oh yes , if I had it again I 'd do it exactly again . |
9 | The demure Lily in her straw hat , a hat I could describe to you now , still , as well as if I had it here in front of me , the crown swathed in a pale tulle the colour of a summer haze … in a long-sleeved , high-necked , pink-and-white striped blouse … a dark-blue hobble skirt , beside whom I walked across Regent 's Park in the spring of 1914 . |
10 | It 's something off , it 's just the attachment that goes from ma , my mum 's Walkman and she nicked off with it when it was at when we were at her house and if I lo , if I keep it anywhere else I 'll lose it so I 've clipped it on to there so I know where it is . |
11 | Ah well that would illuminate the er see if I put it fairly close to the actual corner at the front side , going down towards the garage . |
12 | I know if I popped it right now , I mean yo you 'd a and Trish and Teresa , you , Debbie , Teresa and Mark . |
13 | So if I bring it again on Tuesday |
14 | If I interpreted it correctly — ‘ Nothing is definite , you must interpret the words ’ , Liese said — I had only to keep lying on my bed of North Shore nails for it to turn ultimately into a pillow of foam . |
15 | if I find it too much , cos I start , I 'm starting a full time job again , I , I 'll ask to share it hopefully . |
16 | And that if I post it tomorrow Friday . |
17 | He neither filling another form , I says well I 'll fill it in tonight for him he 'll sign it and if I post it tonight you 'll probably get it tomorrow . |
18 | If I loose it well , it 's , hard cheese . |
19 | ' I do n't know if I want it now . ’ |
20 | She apparently told her sometime lover , Marlon Brando , ‘ I do n't know if I do it right ’ and Norman Mailer , another to enjoy her favours , was quoted as saying that the screen goddess was ‘ pleasant in bed , but receptive rather than innovative ’ . |
21 | There 's a letter I really ought to get written tonight — I had n't realised it was quite so late , and I can get it off by first post if I do it now . ’ |
22 | I send that to Ben , oh if I do it now you can post it for me could n't you ? |
23 | Okay if I do it now can I listen to it . |
24 | ‘ If I do it too directly they wo n't listen to me . ’ |
25 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
26 | I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone . |
27 | I felt if I gripped it too hard it would break or crumple , and I would see the sinews like wires holding it together . |
28 | ‘ If I leave it too long between breakfast and lunch , ’ says Minna , ‘ I get terrible acid bile coming up . ’ |
29 | I shall repeat it and , if I have it wrong , I trust that he will correct me . |
30 | What I do find difficult to swallow — we argued long about this — is some strange belief of his that the world is immaterial and that humanity ( if I have it correctly ) is no more than a kind of metaphysical construct projected by nature and relying on words rather than flesh for its continued existence . |