Example sentences of "if i [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | If I ca n't get the information I want any other way I shall ask the fraud squad to make inquiries . |
| 3 | ‘ Not if I ca n't hear the order , ’ Isabel muttered grimly . |
| 4 | I feel deprived if I ca n't have the same as everyone else ; |
| 5 | I sat back on the bed , trying to decide if I would not confront the Frankenstein household openly . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ( ) . |
| 8 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 9 | If I can just reach the horses , thought Floy , moving stealthily forwards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But if I can just reiterate the criteria . |
| 12 | ‘ If I can just see the baby . ’ |
| 13 | So er if I can just have the lights off at this stage please . |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ ) . |
| 15 | I could become a burden to me wife and family , not only that , if I could n't pay the mortgage they might throw us out of the cottage . |
| 16 | ‘ If I could n't see the funny side of life , I think I would have murdered someone by now ! ’ says Mel . |
| 17 | Erm , if I could just bring the committee up to date on one or two things that have happened in relation to the district auditor 's report . |
| 18 | ‘ If I could just see the Master I could explain to him . |
| 19 | If I could just use the phone , I 'll get a taxi . ’ |