Example sentences of "[verb] if i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if I could ever have a relationship , the way I feel about my body . |
| 2 | I did n't know if I could work with a choreographer . |
| 3 | And there was a neurosis and an anxiety involved around doing that solo record for me , because I 'd never done one before and I did n't know if I could actually pull it off . |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said Benny , ‘ I did n't know if I could walk or not . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't know if I could ever afford to give you more . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know if I could even get a job as a junior salesman . |
| 7 | I did n't know if I could go through with it . |
| 8 | Well , it makes a very good tale , only I do n't know if I could remember any of it ’ He beamed on Taliesin , and then said in an aside to Fribble that he had never yet heard of a Tyrian who did n't judge his wine remarkably well . |
| 9 | Do n't know if I could do the electric one definitely Guess that 's about whether the I 'd like one of them , one of them and yeah but we do n't know when it can be delivered , so we ca n't do it that early you ca n't say yeah but but er we 'll let you know , well we can so it 's there that 's what we wish , they 'd the bills go and we 'll let you know when you can be the keys can be available for you to put it in . |
| 10 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 11 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 12 | I had to know if I could put life into it . |
| 13 | Wanted to know if I could remember whether Mr Meredith went off riding on the day Anna was attacked . ’ |
| 14 | He tried how he could bear it by putting his fingers into the lighted candle , so I the other day tried if I could scour a pewter plate . |
| 15 | I never tried if I could help |
| 16 | ‘ I might have done if I could have got my arms free , ’ Leith replied , and took another sip of her coffee . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Depends if I could have it still tomorrow or not . |
| 19 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 20 | At a clandestine meeting in a North London bar , Brown tested me out by seeing if I could listen — without puking — to his stories about shagging wild women who dipped his dick in chocolate mousse . |
| 21 | I 'm seeing if I could be bothered or |
| 22 | I wanted to see if I could experience it . |
| 23 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 24 | Without thinking , I got up and went over to see if I could lend a hand . |
| 25 | A good bit of it was selfish , but I also had the strange wish to see if I could ‘ take it ’ , and to take my military service worthwhile . |
| 26 | I thought I would look at your file , to see if I could pick up any hints from how you had dealt with it . ’ |
| 27 | Corman admitted , ‘ I did one film really more as a joke to see if I could do it ; filmed it in two days and a night . |
| 28 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 29 | I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow . |
| 30 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |