Example sentences of "if [pers pn] be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After the jump , no doubt I might simply regret not having died , but only if it no longer matters to me how I die , only if I am past caring about the value of my acts .
2 Turning left into the shops I wonder if I am under surveillance from Rufus 's boys .
3 During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe .
4 If I am in doubt , I overshoot .
5 I , for one , am not sure if I am in favour of remote boats , it may just be me getting older and , therefore , less responsive to new ideas and gadgets .
6 If I am in sickness , my sickness may serve Him ; in perplexity , my perplexity may serve Him ; , if I am in sorrow , my sorrow may serve Him .
7 They 've told me what to do if I am in pain .
8 If I am in sickness , my sickness may serve Him ; in perplexity , my perplexity may serve Him ; , if I am in sorrow , my sorrow may serve Him .
9 I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis .
10 If I were on holiday , Nigel would be the first person I 'd contact when I got back .
11 He said : ‘ If I were to single out any one project as a model of its kind , it is the car park in Chichester . ’
12 ‘ Well , you see — I thought I explained this to you — if I were to eidetik now I would go into a kind of a trance .
13 but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power
14 I 'd just feel more secure if I was at home . ’
15 Well I know that if I was at work .
16 If I was to sort of pinch the muscle at the back here ?
17 Anyway , this man came up to where I was standing with my mother , and asked if I was for hire .
18 He said I remembered last night he said if I was in bed I was gon na get wet .
19 Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty .
20 Er if I was in power I 'd put a tax on every child after two I would have taxed you out of existence Ellen .
21 But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’
22 Storying is involved in such private , internal activities as dreaming and fantasizing : ‘ If I was in charge for a day , I 'd … ’ ;
23 An eight year old , if I ruled the world , if I was in charge this is how I would organize things and then and I believe , what I believe in .
24 If I was in charge on the Brit side , I 'd give a little rope , let things get started , then arrest everybody in sight .
25 I felt as if I was in limbo .
26 He asked if I was in trouble and drove me back to the car park , where he produced a tow-rope .
27 The kind of woman I would n't mind having around if I was in trouble though she might be a bit of a trial at other times .
28 ‘ John came up to me , asked me if I was in pain then took hold of the jack , ’ said Mr Trueman , of Chaddesden , Derby .
29 you 're responsible for mine and if I 'm at work I 'm responsible for yours , I wrote to the D H S S
30 If I 'm in port on a Sunday I always go to church at Tala-Tala . ’
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