Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb mod] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | But I 'm damned if I 'll bow to anyone . |
2 | Anyway , if I may return to our Treasurer 's anguished tale , matters became ever worse . |
3 | If I may return to my earlier metaphor — you will excuse my putting it so coarsely — they are like a man who will , at the slightest provocation , tear off his suit and his shirt and run about screaming . |
4 | I du n no if I would go to one now . |
5 | I wonder if I should talk to him about it ? |
6 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
7 | Will you ask Steven if I can talk to him please ? |
8 | ‘ And perhaps an occasional meal or two , if I can stretch to it . ’ |
9 | If I can come to you Andrew , you were in the Royal Highland Fl Fusiliers , what |
10 | sixty percent of customers buy first through re recommendations , for instance , right , if I can prove to you that sixty percent of customers buy , buy first through recommendations , right , would you not see that as a kind er reason why you should buy first as well ? |
11 | Now , if I can say to you if the vehicle was driven on and and on until the engine was damaged with a cylinder head gasket failure , then I would say yes we would repudiate it , because that would be customer negligence . |
12 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that if I 'd come to you you would n't have sent me away with a flea in my ear ? ’ |
13 | We walked up to the fall and what would I not give if I could convey to you the images and feelings which were then communicated to me . |
14 | When the nurse came , she said crisply , ‘ Will you ask Sister Field if I could speak to her please ? |
15 | And from a school 's point of view , he felt that ‘ if someone will come to your doorstep to demonstrate , why should you ignore this service and travel to their doorstep ? |
16 | He loved her like a woman and he ran his hands lightly over her as if she would respond to his touch . |
17 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
18 | Did n't want to work , you know full-time if she can talk to her mum . |
19 | If she can talk to anybody , that is. — And I 'll be going round , of course . |
20 | While Oliver talked to Mrs Bedwin , Rose asked Mr Brownlow if she could speak to him privately . |
21 | She asked Clare if she could go to her room . |
22 | The Queen had already heard rumours about the couple 's problems — but it really sank home just a year ago when Sarah asked if she could talk to her about ‘ a very personal matter ’ . |
23 | So erm , I think when she said she did n't know , er , she was telling the truth , and when asked her if she could explain to me , the very point that just asked me , again she said she , she could n't explain , she had , she she 'd agreed , agreed it was a paradox , that she did n't really know erm , why the book had never been published , or until nineteen sixty seven erm note , note that it , that it had been taken . |
24 | ‘ And I would be grateful if you would come to your senses sooner rather than later . |
25 | If you would turn to my full submission on behalf of Scotton Parish Council . |
26 | Now if you will refer to your folders , you have extracts containing the relevant material . |
27 | At all events , I shall be much obliged to you if you will write to me as soon as possible — in order that , if you do not hold out any hope , he may not lose time , and if you do , that you may receive further information ; and he be put into the way of preparing himself , according to your wishes , for the situation . |
28 | If you can talk to your mother , then you should . |
29 | And er I 've told Tom and the Union bloke who 's said , Yes if you can talk to anybody member of the family to bring anything any consolation , do it . |
30 | Analysing the relationship may — and will - be a painful process but it is also one of healing , for if you can admit to yourself that the relationship was not perfect and was in many ways extremely frustrating , then the sense of loss and abandonment will no longer be as painful . |