Example sentences of "if [pers pn] can [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to keep playing well , and if I ca n't make the team then I want to be in a position to give myself a real chance in America in two years time . ’ |
| 3 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 4 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 5 | If I ca n't get a response from them soon I 'll force-feed 'em my old loin-cloths ! |
| 6 | If I ca n't get a job I wo n't stay in Slumptown — I do n't want benefit or a Youth Scheme' all that crap . |
| 7 | If I ca n't get the information I want any other way I shall ask the fraud squad to make inquiries . |
| 8 | ‘ Not if I ca n't hear the order , ’ Isabel muttered grimly . |
| 9 | There 's the gutter if I ca n't find a cheap hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ Now you listen to me — if I ca n't have a chalet I must have a room where I can talk to Silas privately . |
| 12 | If I ca n't have a band , I wo n't go . |
| 13 | Well if I ca n't have a bit of this chocolate , I 'm going home . |
| 14 | I feel deprived if I ca n't have the same as everyone else ; |
| 15 | And ask her about the water heater cos if I ca n't take a shower I will stink ! |
| 16 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I find life so boring if I can not enjoy a drink , ’ he said . |
| 18 | If I can just reach the horses , thought Floy , moving stealthily forwards . |
| 19 | If I can just reach the horses and reach up and untether them , I believe we could be off and down the road and the creature would never catch up with us . |
| 20 | But if I can just reiterate the criteria . |
| 21 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 22 | But if I can just quote a couple of cases . |
| 23 | So if I can just put a tick there |
| 24 | ‘ If I can just see the baby . ’ |
| 25 | So er if I can just have the lights off at this stage please . |
| 26 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 27 | Mum said how about renting one in Wisbech but I said well if she ca n't afford a mortgage you ca n't afford to rent one . |
| 28 | If she ca n't hear the heart she may get frightened , but there 's a good chance , so I 'm going to take the risk . |
| 29 | Gabriel Gasbag — As thick as a proverbial brick , possesses hardly any intelligence ( it 's doubtful if she can even spell the word ) . |
| 30 | Once meals are being delivered regularly , the WRVS helper will be very concerned if she can not get an answer when she calls and every effort will be made to ensure that the recipient is safe . |