Example sentences of "if i [vb past] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would serve you out if I chose to use the letter in an action against you for breach of promise ! ’ |
| 2 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 3 | If I wished to raise the level it would be a simple matter of raising the lip on the top header pool where the water runs into the bottom header . |
| 4 | A couple of weeks after my appointment to the Arts Council , a letter arrived from Downing Street asking if I wished to accept the honour of a peerage . |
| 5 | Batty said : ‘ If I had to miss the game , I know we still have a squad strong enough to beat Rangers . ’ |
| 6 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 7 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 8 | If I had to describe the contents of Zettel as the answer to one question I think the question would have to be : What is the relevance , for our understanding of ‘ psychological ’ concepts such as understanding , thinking , expecting , intending , imagining , seeing , dreaming , knowing , believing , doubting , pretending , remembering , and feeling , of that account of meaning which distinguishes the later from the earlier writings of Wittgenstein ? |
| 9 | Not even if I had to block the Valve for a week … |
| 10 | If I had to replace the lock myself it just would n't get done . ’ |
| 11 | I suppose if I had to make the choice , I would sacrifice skiing for the sake of the hills . |
| 12 | If I had to list the assets I was born with she would have to come top . |
| 13 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 14 | For the moment my boat was staying on Straker 's Cay , and she would only pass into the senator 's care if I agreed to extend the trial two weeks , cruise-cure into a full summer 's excursion . |
| 15 | I was ruled out of order , I erm I there were point out then that twenty five new councillors and I understand it was n't legitimate if I wanted to restrict the vote only to those twenty five so that the rest of you would actually realise that this has gone on far too long , I only put that as a I think it is very , very important erm that we break new ground . |
| 16 | If I wanted to squander the money in six months or a year , I could do that too , but if I did he would haunt me . ’ |
| 17 | If I wanted to sue the immigration people I would . |
| 18 | But on , on my other remote control if I wanted to alter the sound or the colour , that was on the erm remote control and it 's just a little |
| 19 | I 'm essentially a social historian , although I sometimes think that if I wanted to find the right adjective , and I 've never been too much worried about adjectives , I would say I 'm really a cultural historian . |
| 20 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 21 | If I wanted to get the highest allocation to units would I pay level or escalating premiums by looking at that table ? |
| 22 | I went out and slammed the door behind me , turning the key in the lock as if I wanted to safeguard the proof of the crime and its only witnesses , repeating the same English phrase , over and over again , ‘ Just you wait and see . ’ |
| 23 | If I wanted to check the football results I had to go across the road to read Mrs Stewart 's Sunday Pictorial . |
| 24 | Nigel asked me if I wanted to stay the weekend . |
| 25 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 26 | ‘ Now I just wonder if I remembered to bring the key , ’ she speculated aloud . |
| 27 | ‘ You meant it then , but , if I refused to do the work , would n't you be glad to take it on ? ’ |
| 28 | I am sorry if I appeared to spring the letter on you and I fully understand your desire to get it right . |
| 29 | But as the anorexia progressed , my walks became longer as well as more frequent and , if I decided to follow the perimeter of the school grounds , could last for up to three hours . |