Example sentences of "if we [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 All we can ask is if there 's a councillor for Allenton listening to us , if they could get in touch and we 'll put them in touch with you and see if we can start it all over again Henry .
2 If we can do it again we should be OK . ’
3 If we can tap it successfully — our future is in safe hands .
4 If we can bring her home with us we will .
5 Got to see the estate agents and see if we can view something today .
6 I mean I 'd much rather they do it if we can influence him enough .
7 Comment If these results seems rather too trivial to bother about , let's see if we can make them more impressive ( and less " obvious " ? ) by stating their conclusions in words : ( i ) The product of the additive identity with any integer always yields the additive identity .
8 With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one .
9 He is the first Southerner to succeed in New York , and his aides were happily parodying the Sinatra song about the Big Apple : ‘ If we can make it here , we 'll make it anywhere . ’
10 We in the world campaign which has so far tried to stop armaments to South Africa and its nuclear build up we want to work if possible to build a common security er , arrangement in the region where peace will be everywhere if we can make it everywhere because the region has got so many weapons and arms and military expenditure is very easy to increase when you have growing number of nation states where the people really need food and development .
11 If we accept the possibility — and sometimes , perhaps , the fact — within ourselves we are forearmed against unpleasant possibilities and if we can face it squarely we are likely to work more effectively with any child in question .
12 If we can put something pictorially it saves probably half an hour 's explanation does n't it if you do n't have that so very much er the use of the right brain getting the point across visually er gets it across er much more quickly .
13 ‘ We 'll see if we can get you there , Danny , ’ he said .
14 See if we can get it tomorrow some time .
15 well I do n't know if we can get it there .
16 ‘ Let's just pop upstairs and see if we can find something more suitable . ’
17 Often we can secure the release of refugees from detention if we can find them somewhere to live .
18 ‘ I 'm setting a deadline to open the course in spring 1994 , but if we can have it open in the late summer of 93 that would be ideal , ’ he said .
19 But I think that if we can grab him just for half and hour
20 If we can recognise it then we know about it ( a Person ) , or how to tackle it with a standard solution ( a disease ) , or what the significance maybe ( an inflection in a chart ) .
21 ‘ as if we 'd leave you here on your own , ’ said Snodgrass , clicking his tongue at the very idea .
22 er er another er er anoth another Committee because I would like to accept the if we could do something then modern conditions .
23 that the choice lay between power , which had served us since the days of Clive , and influence which , if we could use it aright in the changed conditions of the twentieth century , would serve us better .
24 Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not .
25 If we could get him away then it would help us get the situation stabilised .
26 Not for , then we could think about having a grant aided class if we if we could get one still for this leisure activity , if people were interested .
27 Can I toss in a thought which might , perhaps , alter the political perspective , if we could get it across ?
28 And if we could get anything else on any of them we would . ’
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