Example sentences of "if i [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q What do I do if I wish to be excused attendance at School ? |
| 2 | If I wished to be cruel about the discussion this far , I would suggest that it has the evasive character of much comparative writing . |
| 3 | I 'd go mad if I had to be tidy as well as everything else . |
| 4 | If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature . |
| 5 | If I wanted to be happy I should have avoided the pub altogether , or at least had nothing stronger than mineral water . |
| 6 | Before I could say , ‘ You bastards ’ , they were specks in the mist as I huddled from the blizzard behind a boulder wondering if I wanted to be sick yet . |
| 7 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 8 | If I wan na be political , I 'll do that in my personal life , I do n't see why I have to do that with music . ’ |
| 9 | if I happen to be awake at that time , then yes , but , if I do n't have |
| 10 | ‘ The best of it was that the farmer — Mr Harris — said that if I proved to be right , he 'd call me in again , especially as Mr Jarvis had said that my fees were moderate . |