Example sentences of "if i be [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am transferred to jail in the US I am a dead man . ’ |
| 2 | I could read the whole of it if I am asked to do so . |
| 3 | Does it sound as if I am striving to avoid saying that the music is boring ? |
| 4 | Cricket is the only even vaguely athletic endeavour I involve myself in , unless you count walking the dog or grovelling to my bank manager , so if I am forced to give up the game by the purchase of these new sightscreens , my fitness will suffer . |
| 5 | If I am forced to select it must be the conclusion : |
| 6 | If I am attempting to guide others in their pilgrimage I too must be a traveller , perhaps further on but still travelling , seeking , discovering . |
| 7 | If I am going to do it , I 'd need to know the English Channel approach backwards . |
| 8 | ‘ And , besides , if I am going to wear it I may as well be able to use it . ’ |
| 9 | But if I am going to bring anybody in , then they will have to be somebody I can trust and live in this area . ’ |
| 10 | The question we must answer is : ‘ If I am going to buy a plane , how much will it cost me and how can I get the money ? ’ |
| 11 | … why am I writing all this out as if I were trying to assimilate myself to her ? |
| 12 | If I were trying to keep things straight , I should have told Stuart about Oliver 's appearance at the door and what I did with his flowers . |
| 13 | ‘ If I were asked to name the most important date in the history of the human race , I would answer without hesitation August 6 1945 . |
| 14 | There have been many books written about improvisation and if I were asked to choose just one it would be Keith Johnston 's Impro which is straightforward , understandable , and theatrically aware . |
| 15 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 16 | If I were invited to make a criticism of primary school teachers within an international setting it would be to suggest that our expectation of children 's ability is too low . |
| 17 | I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question , but if I were forced to hazard a guess , I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart . |
| 18 | Indeed , if I were forced to try the impossible , to imagine what it is like to be a bat , I would guess that echolocating , for them , might be rather like seeing for us . |
| 19 | I believe , if I were reduced to rest Turner 's immortality upon any single work , I should choose this . |
| 20 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
| 21 | " I look as if I were going to give birth to an elephant at any minute ! " |
| 22 | ‘ If I were going to use this now … ’ |
| 23 | Also , if I were to try to explain to him the nature of my personal circumstances , he would be embarrassed . |
| 24 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
| 25 | If I were to begin to manage another major artist , and Mark Knopfler were to ring up and ask me to get the band back together for an album and a world tour , something would have to suffer . |
| 26 | It was almost as if I was intended to see that they were not really supernatural ; and there was Conchis 's cryptic , doubt-sowing advice that it would be easier if I pretended to believe . |
| 27 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |
| 28 | ‘ I felt as if I was beginning to fade . ’ |
| 29 | So er well If you want to tell me , if I was starting as a riveter boy , right , if I was wanting to start as a riveter boy , what would I do ? |
| 30 | Would I do the job this way if I was asked to do it at work ? |