Example sentences of "if [pron] could [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wondered if I could be of service to anyone in the theatre . ’ |
| 2 | She looked as if she could be on the cover of a fashion magazine . |
| 3 | She went to see if she could be of any use . |
| 4 | ‘ All those birds are as common as dirt around here , but I guess if they could be of some use to you , that 's great . ’ |
| 5 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 6 | He visited the horrible flat every day to see if he could be of use . |
| 7 | He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use . |
| 8 | It was March 1917 , and the young officer-to-be immediately went north to Petrograd ( now St Petersburg ) to see if he could be of help to the royal family . |
| 9 | Nevertheless Faldo looked as if he could be in the hunt after all with his total of 211 for the 54 holes with Bernhard Langer and Corey Pavin . |