Example sentences of "if i would " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was while I was in this slough of despond that my publisher rang to ask if I would like to read a manuscript that needed transforming into a readable book before it could be published . |
| 32 | If I went to Bristol it looked very much as if I would have to go without my prop . |
| 33 | I wonder if I would have cared . |
| 34 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 35 | When I was in a fit state she asked if I would like to talk to her . |
| 36 | One of them asked if I would like some beetroot . |
| 37 | I doubt if I would hesitate — 'Cos I |
| 38 | She hesitated for a moment , then said , ‘ I met Sid Watkins in Berkeley today and he asked me if I would like to go to the Licensed Victuallers Dinner at the Princes Hotel with him tonight . |
| 39 | He says : ‘ I do n't know if I would have been slightly criminal , but would not have been a very nice human being . |
| 40 | If I would now recommend the Finzis in the shorter pieces in preference to the otherwise fine Higginbottom performances of Howells choral works on , the situation regarding the delectable Requiem is not quite so clear cut , as Hyperion also possesses an outstanding version from the Corydon Singers under their gifted director , Matthew Best ( ) . |
| 41 | For a moment I wondered if I would be able to catch him , but it was only for a moment . |
| 42 | He asked if I would say that ‘ on the record ’ . |
| 43 | He was n't put off and said that if I would please stay he would dance every dance with me . |
| 44 | I did n't like it but I needed the money — the bastard threatened tae evict us from our caravan if I would n't train the lions — and I was scared of Raja and it knew I was scared and I got drunk and drunker and ’ — Paddy held his crutch aloft — ‘ ye see what happened . ’ |
| 45 | I got a call from the Chairman of a company , asking if I would be willing to spend some more time — on learning to use a completely new keyboard used by the then-new British system called Microwriter . |
| 46 | Then she asked if I would knit some for other mothers , so I agreed to her putting my name on her notice board . |
| 47 | Then she asked me if I would have ice in it . |
| 48 | Yes , he replied , if I would send him the postage . |
| 49 | ‘ I had a phone call from the Anglo-Scots asking if I would interested in playing for them or for Scotland . |
| 50 | ‘ I have had letters from fans asking if I would think again . |
| 51 | ‘ I wondered if I would get in , ’ Hopley admitted . |
| 52 | On 26 April I was summoned by Mr Baker to his office at the Department of Education and Science , and asked if I would chair a Working Group to prepare proposals for English in the National Curriculum . |
| 53 | I was damned if I would show him my fear . |
| 54 | Some time towards the end of 1943 I was approached by the US Office of War Information to see if I would join their staff as adviser on Burmese subjects and language . |
| 55 | In early 1944 I was asked by the Burma Government if I would consider deputising for B.R. Pearn while he went on a much-needed furlough . |
| 56 | A nice government official helping to run the camp asked if I would mind staying until all the old and sick and pregnant women were flown out , and of course we were only too pleased to stay . |
| 57 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 58 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 59 | I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday . |
| 60 | One Christmas when Macmillan was in his eighties his grand-son Alexander ( Maurice 's son and the present Lord Stockton ) , who looked after the old boy in many ways , asked me if I would read the eighth of nine lessons at a carol service in a London church in aid of dependants of the Publishers Association . |