Example sentences of "if we can [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SERAFIN : I was just thinking how often philosophy begins with the promise that if we can manage to get our thinking right about some basic concept we can then go on to restructure our thinking about everything else — and how rarely this later part of the programme is ever reached … |
| 2 | This is particularly true if we can face doing it before they experience death for themselves , before someone in their family , maybe a grandparent , dies . |
| 3 | and then if we can afford to send him privately we can just take his name off . |
| 4 | And if we can afford to send him to Bishop Challener or wherever then I mean if we ca n't , thing is at Bishop Challener we wanted to ge- reserve a place now and just pay fifty pounds . |
| 5 | And what we could do is keep him at Saint Christopher 's if we can afford to send him privately , keep him at Saint Christopher 's for a couple of years . |