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Example sentences of "would [vb infin] if [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She wondered what Colonel Hoggatt would think if he could visit his laboratory now .
2	well I would think if it could lodged during the course of the next ten days or so
3	She had no idea what she would do if she should find him there .
4	What he would achieve if he could do this was twofold .
5	Becoming a gigolo and selling boats in Fiji were just two of the more inventive careers accountants said they would follow if they could have their professional life all over again .
6	I have seen you in the House , and though we have n't met , I have taken rather a fancy to you , and would like if I can to help your career .
7	Rot on the vine ’ ) , its heedlessness ( ‘ with careless hand ’ ) , and its enervation ( its land is ‘ tired ’ , its conquest of that terrain ‘ unmanned ’ ) — that he would like if he could to unravel the threads of history , and become again a citizen of that Old World which his ancestors should never have left .
8	And in the meantime , since he had spoken of things she ought to learn , she would see if he could tell her just what it was that women like Marie Moon and Audrey Covington-Pym did to stop themselves from bearing child after child after child .
9	But imagine how easy your monthly budgeting would become if you could reduce your mortgage payments for the next three years .
10	I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) .
11	He had a spare ticket for the Leeds end which I said I would take if I could get past the ‘ security ’ outside the Leeds end .
12	I imagined what would happen if I should tear the sleeves out , or cut it up , or run to the kitchen for the tomato-ketchup and pour it all over the bodice ; if I should rip out the collar with my teeth .
13	Lili frowned , and I wondered what would happen if I should say that the wedding was cancelled .
14	I wondered what would happen if I should say that I wished she had n't .
15	He shifted restlessly on the bed , thinking of what would happen if he should die without issue .
16	I would appreciate if you would pass these on to the delegate concerned .
17	I would appreciate if you could publish this so that the proper acknowledgement can be made to Network Craigavon .
18	City and Aston Villa ) , I would appreciate if you could find out if Mr. Silver has thought about bringing Leeds over to play .
19	Why , did they say they they would go if we would go ?
20	That 's fine but sentence six Florence teased Dougal , and did so Brian too does n't sound right but notice that 's exactly what you would get if you could substitute the proform for a subject verb construction and then it would mean Florence teased Brian too .
21	She knew that success would come if she could convince readers that it was not a novel designed as mere entertainment but a moral tale designed to expose an evil and enhance the moral status of the reader .
22	While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied .
23	He goes to a day centre three days a week but it would help if he could have a two- or three-week holiday somewhere every now and again .
24	‘ It would help if you would define the term ‘ in vitro , ’ I think . ’
25	It would help if you could organise an action group to co-ordinate your local campaign , though this is not essential .
26	‘ I wonder what Herbie would say if he could see us now , my beauty . ’
27	I wondered what he would say if I should remark that just outside the right-hand frame there lay a disused water wheel , and that the low wall of the ruined house had a hollow place where it was comfortable to sit , shaded by what remained of the pigeon tower .