Example sentences of "if [pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everyone could look after their own , there would be far fewer people like social workers running around looking after other people 's own . |
| 2 | But I 'm damned if I 'll bow to anyone . |
| 3 | So I asked if I might go through it again and try some of the ideas he talked about . |
| 4 | He was then , of course , in opposition and particularly asked if I might advise on what would be a sensible housing policy when the Labour Party came to power . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder if I might begin with my family , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ Gerald , I wonder if I might trespass on your good nature ? ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , if I may return to our Treasurer 's anguished tale , matters became ever worse . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ And your father — if I may speak of him too — was a man all of us admired … ’ |
| 10 | If I may speak as one who has heard all the centenary lectures and restraining myself from being invidious , I will merely say : George , it was an admirable centenary lecture , and the huge spinning top of words , despite its complexity , kept the patterns clear and sharp and arguable . |
| 11 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 12 | ‘ I have nearly come to the end of what I have to say but there is one final complication if I may impose on your patience a little longer . |
| 13 | I du n no if I would go to one now . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I wonder if I should talk to him about it ? |
| 16 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 17 | I 'll change if I can think of anything else to do , but I ca n't . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( a ) ‘ If I can talk about it today , then I 'll be able to get on with the project — if I ca n't , the project is going to have to be delayed . |
| 20 | Will you ask Steven if I can talk to him please ? |
| 21 | ‘ And perhaps an occasional meal or two , if I can stretch to it . ’ |
| 22 | If I can lie with her once , thought Fergus , if I can taste the sweetness , if I can possess her just once , she will be forever mine … |
| 23 | Well my brother was in the Artillery and I thought well it be nice if I can get with him but that did n't work out that way . |
| 24 | If I can come to you Andrew , you were in the Royal Highland Fl Fusiliers , what |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Presently , he asks if I will go with him to Dublin . |
| 28 | And if I will kill for you , my dallta , will I not lie for you also , to make your heart clear again ? |
| 29 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |