Example sentences of "[noun pl] if i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 It would be sitting at the pictures if I could have the money to do it fill time .
2 I would like green eyes if I could have them but it 's just a passing thought , not a real obsession .
3 Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry .
4 I wondered as I thought of secrets if I might find some release in telling Lili the thing that festered in my soul , and I asked her if she would listen .
5 Yep the only difference between the two , is the colours If I could talk to the animals walk with the animals , sing and dance and squawk with the animals ah la la la la !
6 So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms .
7 A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do
8 I promised him I 'd pass it on to his relatives if I could find them , anyway keep it safe in case he managed to get out too .
9 I remember getting off the plane and being asked by the press photographers if I would give them a salute .
10 In our various parties , organizations and institutions therefore we urgently need to recognize that most of our programmes , not least the programmes of our conferences and synods if I may leave you together in sin brothers and sisters
11 I made a deal with my mum to take clarinet lessons if I could have guitar lessons as well .
12 I asked the soldiers if I could take a photograph and was told : ‘ Only if you keep moving . ’
13 On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice
14 I think I think My Lords , I think my Lords if I may say so
15 Well , I doubt if I have a single drop of aristocratic blood in my veins , but I certainly plan to seek an invitation to enjoy those grounds if I can win permission for a search .
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