Example sentences of "if [pers pn] take this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Mandy , if I took this bet , you might feel driven to play Cupid . ’
2 So , if I take this bearing , this is a g very common question they have in G C S E , take a bearing from J and it 's forty five degrees , right ?
3 So I , I always think it , feel it 's a good idea to say to the stallholder , stallholder look , erm if I take this home and try it on and find it wo n't , does n't fit can I bring it back ?
4 Impulsively now , she put her hand out and laid it on his , saying quietly , ‘ I 'm going to miss you all over again , Ben , that 's if I take this place . ’
5 I think if I take this lot to the tip now , I 'll come back
6 Well if , and if you took this Freud 's theory seriously .
7 I 'm terribly sorry madam , I 'm terribly sorry madam , you might die if you take this drug
8 If you take this approach you will find that your work improves ; what in the past seemed difficult is now easier to achieve .
9 And if you take this issue of Ideal Home along with you , you 'll be entitled to one reduced adult admission of just £3.50 .
10 It is important that , if you take this course of action , you have definite evidence that an undisputed debt does exist and that all reasonable efforts have been made to recover it .
11 Posthumous birthday and get well cards are therefore understandable if you take this view .
12 erm if , if , if you , if you , if you take this view of excesses you 're not unhappy for that to happen in order to move it forward as long as you maintain the control necessary to stop it when it 's gone too far , which is exactly what he does .
13 If you take this step , you will lose the offer of truce . ’
14 In the back , if you take this cupboard it does n't matter .
15 They 're probably even clearer if you take this copy of my er which I 'll leave by the door and er we 'll carry on next week .
16 well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ?
17 well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ?
18 I know what happens if you take this place on its own terms .
19 Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat .
20 In fact if we took this argument to its logical conclusion we would of course be forced to reject Christianity itself , which in its fundamentals is a pre-modern view of the world .
21 Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union .
22 We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education .
23 So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender .
24 If we take this point of view , it seems that we will gain a better understanding of the history of what is usually called standard English , because we will be able to separate out those issues that primarily involve the development of standard ( prescriptive or codified ) norms from those that do not .
25 If we take this quotation at face value , it is very difficult to see what possible set of physical circumstances could serve to falsify it .
26 Reilly added : ‘ I 've instilled into the England players that if they take this game lightly they could end up with egg on their faces .
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