Example sentences of "if [pron] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel as if I am watching something happen to someone else . ’ |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I realise I have been the bane of certain UKCC officers ’ lives and I hope that if I am elected I will continue to act as a grain of sand in the oyster . |
| 3 | I will not say that much of this debate has been irrelevant , because that sounds as if I am dismissing what has been said , which I am not , but it is irrelevant in the context of 1993 , because the advent of the new system will answer many of the problems that have been identified . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 5 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 6 | If I am to do what you asked , he wrote , you will have to co-operate . |
| 7 | ( i ) If I am anaesthetized I do not feel the prick of the needle . |
| 8 | ‘ If I am invited I shall be delighted to go with them and then I will see if I play or not . |
| 9 | ‘ In mine too , ’ he murmured , ‘ if I am to keep my hands off you ! ’ |
| 10 | If I am following someone who drops their wallet then it would be idle to deny that I have a duty to pick it up and return it . |
| 11 | I may not answer and if I am doing your mouth I shall tell you so . ’ |
| 12 | Anyway , if I am to maintain my hectic schedule of conquests , I can do without the interference of these guys taking up the time and energy of foxy babes with mere talk . |
| 13 | ‘ He does not greatly care for it , but I need its solitude if I am to accomplish what I am about . ’ |
| 14 | If I , being ignorant , ask a mathematician about his work I must expect , if I am to understand him , to be led into a realm of abstraction that I am unaccustomed to . |
| 15 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 16 | If I am to show what I can do I must be given a chance to make my own complete performance . |
| 17 | As for the rest , if I am to survive myself I must adapt to what time brings . ’ |
| 18 | And if I am to believe her … ’ |
| 19 | If I were to ask him , the answer would be — ’ |
| 20 | If I were to ask you if you could come to dinner tonight and you replied ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ , my wife and I could plan accordingly . |
| 21 | If I were to ask you for your address , what would you do ? |
| 22 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 23 | And if I were to put it , If you have an opportunity of two sites and the development of one is capable of causing damage to existing characteristics and the other is not , would you go for the the one which would not cause damage rather than the one which would , or would you willy-nilly plump for either ? |
| 24 | If I were to put it in er stewed apples or something I would n't eat the actual ginger but in a casserole , it 's nice . |
| 25 | My mother does n't cook very much food , and if I were to cook my own she would see that as greed and put a stop to it . |
| 26 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 27 | Well I have n't given it much thought but er if I were to die I would n't want my wife and family to suffer . |
| 28 | However I run my boat as a charter boat and cater for a masochistic fringe who would sail on Christmas day if I were to let them . |
| 29 | ‘ How would you like it if I were to let you know where you could stop the Wete Mo Nan Dlo , the biggest ceremony this year ? |
| 30 | If I were given my head , which I never am or will be ( for I am impotent . |