Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 2 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 3 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
| 4 | I like it brown you know , if I go to a party . |
| 5 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |
| 6 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
| 7 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 8 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |
| 9 | The ideal is for me to stop out here on me own because , if I go into a unit or something and stop , it 's quite easy to go straight back on the gear . |
| 10 | If I go into a house and it is turned off I get worried . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you mind if I go for a swim ? ’ |
| 12 | If I come to a word like meteorological , that is apt to give me trouble , I discreetly rephrase ! |
| 13 | I can get a lot more atmosphere if I come to a place like this and actually draw what I see . ’ |
| 14 | If I get into a structure , if I , if I start trying to learn it I 'm gon na do it all . |
| 15 | That 's , that 's just like me that is , if I get into a rhythm and someone gives er , I can do it then , but if I just sit on a page , I think oh how do you do that ? |
| 16 | And normally if I get near a computer it goes wrong . |
| 17 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 18 | If I point to a particular item in a room and say " that " , we can say that the demonstrative encodes distance from the origo , whether actual or mental , and the coincidence of indexical and symbolic meaning is only possible when we know what object is being pointed to . |
| 19 | Right double the speed , if I drive at a hundred and twenty . |
| 20 | Erm what would happen if I drive at a tenth of the speed ? |
| 21 | If I drive at a tenth of the speed , is it gon na take me longer or is it gon na take me is it gon na be quicker ? |
| 22 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 23 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 24 | If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me . |
| 25 | Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not |
| 26 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 27 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 28 | I 've accepted that if I open in a play in Lourdes about the life and times of Mother Teresa , the press will write : ‘ Yiddishe Momma in NUN-sense ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ If I feel like a change . |
| 30 | If I feel like a glass I certainly will have one . ’ |