Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
2 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
3 | I also hoped she had n't told him about Frankie 's and my rudeness although why I should have been bothered about him I ca n't think . |
4 | Truthfully , of course ; I 'd see how it sounded , and if it were too reprehensible , well , I 'd just have to think up a good lie , that was all , right now at the outset , and stick to it until perhaps I 'd begin to believe it myself . |
5 | Just to think , he said he would dance every dance with me if only I would stay . |
6 | ‘ Oh , Robyn , ’ he whispered huskily , ‘ if only I 'd know what you were going through . |
7 | ‘ Oh , if only I 'd let well alone ! ’ |
8 | And the cryptic little message offered Chesarynth just enough information to do something — if only I can decide what . |
9 | I know that it is there , and if only , if only I can choose the right words , and if only I can tap the exact right source of power , then I shall see it ignite and flare into life . |
10 | I know that it is there , and if only , if only I can choose the right words , and if only I can tap the exact right source of power , then I shall see it ignite and flare into life . |
11 | ‘ If only I could control my responses , but I seem unable to do anything about them . ’ |
12 | ‘ If only I could make you see how wonderful it is . ’ |
13 | If only I could make forty . |
14 | I thought of it as a sanctuary , and something more as if there were some magic property in the room itself that would stop this happening , if only I could reach it . |
15 | If only I could reach |
16 | ‘ If only I could do that ! ’ |
17 | I have often missed him , often felt that if only I could talk over a particular problem with him he would help me to see the way . |
18 | They would sometimes say , ‘ If only I could walk like you . ’ |
19 | If only I could spell resources , number of resources . |
20 | Oh , if only I could tell you " |
21 | Even so , thought Taliesin , struggling against the Enchantment , even so , there is something — if only I could remember — we have to be very wary of the crying in the night outside … |
22 | If only I could have gone out there and helped to put matters right . |
23 | ‘ If only I could have made one more birdie at the last , that might have done the trick . ’ |
24 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
25 | But he remained hopeful of securing Walden in the future , for he ‘ would be the making of the Leeds City team if only I could get him to Elland Road ’ . |
26 | So I was looking at the slide sitting on the strings , and looking at the major third on the fretboard , and then I said , ‘ If only I could get this note here . ’ |
27 | ‘ If only I could get into this box , I 'd squash him . ’ |
28 | If only I could get some relief from this headache … ’ |
29 | I feel I could be entirely useful if only I could get something to focus on . |
30 | " If only I could get to Hatfield then the journey from there to London is easy . |