Example sentences of "be [verb] if i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what is more , I 'll give it or not as I please ; and I 'll be buggered if I 'll ask permission of some pushy little perisher before I do so . ’ |
| 2 | I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel . |
| 3 | No question about it , she had a face , but I 'm buggered if I can remember what it looked like . |
| 4 | Well I 've seen the toothbrush somewhere recently but I 'm buggered if I can remember where . |
| 5 | I 'm wondering if I should ring them actually , from unit , and ask them if tell them what 's happening and will she be able to go on Income Support if she does give it up ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll be damned if I 'll set up in Northallerton because of the ride they have given me , ’ Mr Davies said . |
| 7 | I may have to nursemaid you , but I 'll be damned if I 'll let you bugger things up for me . ’ |
| 8 | She made it specially for him , and I 'm damned if I 'll send it back . ’ |
| 9 | Jones yelled , ‘ I 'm damned if I 'll bowl a full-toss ! ’ |
| 10 | Devastated I may be , but I 'm damned if I 'll give her the satisfaction of hearing me beg for mercy . |
| 11 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
| 12 | But I 'm damned if I 'll bow to anyone . |
| 13 | ‘ I remember seeing pictures of a fish like that at school , but I 'm damned if I can remember what it was , ’ said Yanto , thoughtfully . |
| 14 | ‘ It could still be black magic because I 'm damned if I can find a way through the tangle . |
| 15 | Our next Parish Council meeting is on 2 April 1992 and it would be appreciated if I could have your reply before that date . |
| 16 | My Lord , I think the case is being made if I may say so sir , to give the jury the impression that the police just document . |
| 17 | My purpose was to see if I could write a novel with only two characters , preserving the unities of time , place and action ( it all happens in one day in John 's London flat ) , without any cheating through long flashbacks or such devices . |
| 18 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 19 | I was wondering if I could speak to Mrs Ward . |
| 20 | I was wondering if I could take it tonight ? |
| 21 | I was damned if I would show him my fear . |
| 22 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
| 23 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 24 | Whilst I was in Aachen the Head of Swedish Radio invited me to Stockholm to conduct the new Radio Orchestra and I was asked if I would do the Sixth Symphony , which was quite new then and very little known . |
| 25 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 26 | Moments before the Prime Minister presented me with the trophy , I was asked if I would pose in the sea for a tourism promotion picture . |
| 27 | Then , in 1963 , I was asked if I would write a piece on my own work for Living Arts , an immaculately produced but short-lived ICA magazine . |
| 28 | I got in touch with the linguists in the University and the College of Education , and was asked if I could do some teaching in March ( March seeming a long way away , I agreed ) . |