Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] i be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 2 | So that is another area that if I was to put a ban on imports |
| 3 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 4 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 5 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 6 | There is enough in evidence here to convince me that if I were to submit a checklist to Jimmy Moon the resulting guitar would be a very fine instrument indeed . |
| 7 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 8 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
| 9 | No doubt some will defend the right to march on grounds of civil liberties for they will swiftly perceive that if I were to get my way , all kinds of trade union demonstrations to say nothing of peace marches would fall under the ban . |
| 10 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 11 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 12 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 13 | It has so much depth , much more than if I were to express myself in other languages . |
| 14 | Mum said that as a Christian She was not going to write me a note when there was n't anything wrong with me and that I was to remember that we Christians are the light of the world . |
| 15 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 16 | And if I am to believe her … ’ |
| 17 | Remember the boys are at home and if I was to go and ask Martin he would immediately say yes . ’ |
| 18 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 19 | And if I were to put it , If you have an opportunity of two sites and the development of one is capable of causing damage to existing characteristics and the other is not , would you go for the the one which would not cause damage rather than the one which would , or would you willy-nilly plump for either ? |
| 20 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 21 | And if I were to pick one of my own , it would be either ‘ Zen Arcade ’ or ‘ Workbook ’ . ' |
| 22 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |
| 23 | My mother does n't cook very much food , and if I were to cook my own she would see that as greed and put a stop to it . |
| 24 | And if I were to start screaming now it would be too late . |
| 25 | And if I were to stay … ’ |
| 26 | Now , if if I were to say , let us now have that conversation using erm , |
| 27 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 28 | She was , nevertheless , an expert dressmaker and as I was to learn later , was the only reason that we lived with some decree of plenty during the Kaiser 's War . |
| 29 | With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was . |
| 30 | But if I am to believe that , when the Minister replies to the debate she will have to commit herself to two very simple propositions : first , that the Government will institute a full review of student financial support as a matter of urgency ; secondly , that they will commit themselves to restoring to all students the housing benefit and income support that the Government have taken away from them . |