Example sentences of "[adj] if [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim woke with a slightly tender head — those blasted lieutenants and their silly jokes — and the sombre feeling that he must be getting truly old if he could no longer sleep through a normal wakey-wakey in barracks . |
| 2 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 3 | Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards . |
| 4 | It 'd all be different if you could get a job . |
| 5 | So it would be rather interesting if we could have some sort of comparison . |
| 6 | It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to . |
| 7 | Whilst realising some of the questions do not apply to you as a potential member , it would be interesting if you could please complete , insofar as practical , the enclosed questionnaire and return it to me at |
| 8 | Here ago you see it implied that you were so much more learned and knowledgeable and clever if you could talk English . |
| 9 | As for the UK situation , the Shipping Federation had plenty of free labour , while the union had no funds and would think itself fortunate if it could keep the men out for a week or two . |
| 10 | Ed had that excellent ceiling training unit — pretty pumpy if you could handle the boredom of notching up circuits . |
| 11 | It would be splendid if I could state that audit regulation had solved all the profession 's problems , that all audits were now models of perfection , carried out by accountancy paragons . |
| 12 | He might have been rather less relieved if he could have read her mind . |
| 13 | I would be delighted if we could do something . ’ |
| 14 | Many countries in the world would be delighted if they could have the success we have . |
| 15 | A little later , he met the leaders of the Provisional IRA in Dublin and assured them that he would be delighted if he could cut it down to ten or eight years . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ I would be very sad if we could not come to an agreement with the tanker owners . |
| 17 | Would n't it be amazing if we could ? |
| 18 | And indeed , since social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture , it would be quite absurd if it could somehow be inferred from what social anthropologists teach that cultural diversity is both politically and morally deplorable . |
| 19 | I mean , maybe there are others who could , who can do it and explain them to me , and I 'd be very grateful if they could but , erm in detail |
| 20 | I 'm mean we 've discussed it often but I I would be grateful if we could |
| 21 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 22 | I understand that the changes are fairly limited , and I should be grateful if he could give me any further information . |
| 23 | for the convenience of the house I 'd be most grateful if he could tell us , is this board a quango that he 's referred to ? |
| 24 | In the massage parlour at lunchtime , Molly Lugg told me her son was now unemployed because his boss , Trevor Proby , was ‘ in chains ’ and she would be grateful if I could find him something to do , as he spends all his time kicking his heels , mostly through shop windows in the High Street . |
| 25 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 26 | If they have been so informed , I would be very grateful if I could be told on what date they were told . |
| 27 | I would be so grateful if you could tell me the name of it , because it looks so unusual . |
| 28 | I would be grateful if you could reassure me . |
| 29 | I would be grateful if you could help with another problem we have experienced : Our manual states that the type of spark plugs that should be used , depends upon the compression ratio of the engine . |
| 30 | I would be very grateful if you could list out the mods that are really required in order to carry out this job . |