Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [be] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I was the best second row forward in England I 'd hope to get into the side , but that 's not the case at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I strolled amongst the boxwood as if I was the keenest of gardeners , taking special interest in the herb banks , the ever-green boxwood , and the multi-coloured flowers where hungry bees searched for honey . |
| 3 | So if you are the best man , you might as well prepare a few words . |
| 4 | ‘ If you are the best then obviously we want the best , especially as Señorita Howard will not move without you . |
| 5 | But if you are the slightest bit interested in this symphony you simply must hear it , and not only because it was recorded only months after première performances conducted by Mravinsky himself . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're the best lay the platoon has to offer , I can only hope the Germans win this bloody war . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Frankly , if you can cook like this I do n't care if you 're the greatest lady criminal of all time . ’ |
| 8 | Ernie never wins , but if you 're the oldest musher in the business , who cares ! ! |
| 9 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 10 | They all come in and tell us we 're the busiest and I say well if we 're the busiest , God help those that 're the quietest . |
| 11 | If it is the best that they can do , then their actions are skilful in the sense that they are produced in milliseconds , and that they are spontaneous , automatic , and unrehearsed . |
| 12 | c ‘ Even if it is the best tree-house I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 13 | But we could well encounter sales resistance if it is the biggest . |
| 14 | Send us your top tip , and if it 's the best of the batch , you 'll win a great prize ! |
| 15 | Send us your top tip , and if it 's the best of the batch , you 'll win a great prize ! |
| 16 | Conscious analysis of anything is only scorned by me if it 's the best you can do ! |
| 17 | Well no , not only that if it 's the simplest way |
| 18 | But if it 's the slightest bit lukewarm , |
| 19 | The night before , these three had blended together as if it was the easiest thing in the world , forming a new , three-headed animal talking comfortably to itself through Francie 's hands and Aunt Margaret 's lips and fingers and Finn 's feet . |
| 20 | ‘ Does that mean I have to change ? ’ she asked , as if it was the dreariest thing ever . |
| 21 | Asked about Labour 's attitude if it were the largest party , Mr Gould said on London Weekend Television that Mr Kinnock would accept the invitation to form a Government , would draw up a legislative programme and would put it to Parliament . |
| 22 | How often we hear one person tell another to ‘ relax , as if it were the easiest thing in the world to do ? |
| 23 | But Nick said , ‘ Hallo , Mister Johnny , ’ and went up to him as if it were the easiest and most natural thing in the world . |