Example sentences of "[vb past] if [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still appeared deserted Their excitement was such that he doubted if they could stop now even if the gamekeeper did appear . |
| 2 | I doubted if she could be more than fifty yards away , but I was n't going to risk missing her — once carried past her , it would be pretty well hopeless to try to find her . |
| 3 | Despite her threat she doubted if she could summon up enough voice to scream . |
| 4 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 5 | Even eighteen months ago he said that he doubted if he could give enough time and energy to securing a World Cup place . |
| 6 | An early decision to submit himself to re-election was probably his only chance of holding on , though I doubted if he could in any circumstances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I never tried if I could help |
| 9 | The portrait , he thought , must have been even more powerful than he realized if it could so dominate his physical reaction to the living woman . |
| 10 | This would entail a sixty-mile round trip for us , but who cared if he could be freed of that perpetual pain he had suffered for so long ? |
| 11 | The boys asked if we could pay them some ‘ small money ’ to buy pens for schools . |
| 12 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 13 | A few days later Lord Thorneycroft , the Party Chairman , and Alastair ( now Lord ) McAlpine came to me and asked if we could stage another for the European Elections — three weeks later . |
| 14 | Concelebration Masses were becoming commonplace and Bishop McClean asked if we could provide 52 sets of white Mass vestments for use on important occasions with a particular view to the Diocesan Centenary Celebrations coming in 1978 . |
| 15 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 16 | She asked if we could meet . |
| 17 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |
| 18 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 19 | The treasurer asked if we could make an early start to the meetings eight P M prompt . |
| 20 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 21 | ‘ American House and Gardens came to photograph the house and asked if we could provide 350 of these plates for their best advertisers . |
| 22 | ‘ Frank Worthington had been due one and he asked if we could have a joint game . |
| 23 | It 's just that two people asked if we could just print the form relating to what is in the master job file and it on the same colour paper or card as the erm , job files . |
| 24 | I know Steve asked if we could go back to Thursdays cos he ca n't make a Wednesday night . |
| 25 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 26 | One of two women in the car asked if they could help me . |
| 27 | People we knew asked if they could leave their horse , Shamrock , in one of the fields . |
| 28 | ‘ They asked if they could have some pictures , which I 've sent out . ’ |
| 29 | At that stage , the partners approached their bankers , NatWest , and asked if they could operate separate bank accounts for each office . |
| 30 | One day they asked if they could have an aquarium of their own . |