Example sentences of "if [pers pn] can [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'm going to see if I can adapt to that position , ’ said Reid . |
2 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
3 | As regards the distribution of lands between the districts , erm if I can refer to Mr Curtis 's comments first , the Greater York study never anticipated that the distribution of housing around the Greater York the districts would be based around the percentage of population within those districts , but purely on capacity of sites within those districts to accommodate future housing growth without compromising greenbelt objectives , Ryedale , as I 've said before , has taken the largest proportion of recent housing in the Greater York area , and has identified a substantial amount of new land for housing within its Southern Ryedale local plan , what the District Council is concerned about is that within the local , Southern Ryedale local plans , this is taking a large proportion of its district wide total plans , yet the District Council from the structure plan figure given is unable to calculate the remainder of housing that should be allocated in the remainder of its district . |
4 | Finally if I can refer to the honourable member for Cardiff West , who wound up . |
5 | I 'm in balance if I remember Changi ; because there I was as near death as I possible could be , and if I can relate to that , what else can anybody do to me ? |
6 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
7 | The honourable gentleman said that was a straight question , I shall give him a straight answer , er no it would n't , er if I can return to the line of er explanation I was giving Mr Deputy Speaker . |
8 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
9 | Will you ask Steven if I can talk to him please ? |
10 | I wonder if I can go to the er little boy 's room at the end of the corridor while you 're |
11 | If I can go to and get two pounds of |
12 | ‘ And perhaps an occasional meal or two , if I can stretch to it . ’ |
13 | Erm regarding the question of erm additional sites for housing , I erm if I can turn to erm Barton Willmore 's G One Ten erm in paragraph |
14 | If I can turn to the balance sheet , it 's a little more complicated , we 're in a rather odd position at the thirtieth of June of incorporating the Thames er , balance sheet because our offer went unconditional . |
15 | She 's promised to give me some schooling if I can get to chapel in the mornings . |
16 | If I can come to you Andrew , you were in the Royal Highland Fl Fusiliers , what |
17 | sixty percent of customers buy first through re recommendations , for instance , right , if I can prove to you that sixty percent of customers buy , buy first through recommendations , right , would you not see that as a kind er reason why you should buy first as well ? |
18 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
19 | Now , if I can say to you if the vehicle was driven on and and on until the engine was damaged with a cylinder head gasket failure , then I would say yes we would repudiate it , because that would be customer negligence . |
20 | If she can talk to anybody , that is. — And I 'll be going round , of course . |
21 | Did n't want to work , you know full-time if she can talk to her mum . |
22 | If a wife is going to be out all day and her husband refuses to help in the home , she may have to consider arranging or paying for help if she can afford to — in order to do what she wants to do . |
23 | If you can talk to your mother , then you should . |
24 | Erm and er so you know but you 've just got to be slightly careful I think of the figures and erm i if if you know it 's much better if you can talk to the the |
25 | And er I 've told Tom and the Union bloke who 's said , Yes if you can talk to anybody member of the family to bring anything any consolation , do it . |
26 | Trust increases because if you can talk to people openly and they talk to you openly and you 're communicating then you 're quite trusting with that person . |
27 | Er so if you can if you can talk to y r ring up anybody you know and just ask them . |
28 | Analysing the relationship may — and will - be a painful process but it is also one of healing , for if you can admit to yourself that the relationship was not perfect and was in many ways extremely frustrating , then the sense of loss and abandonment will no longer be as painful . |
29 | So if you 're looking for something , bit of a pain having to wade through half a dozen pages , if you can go to the index and then jump directly to the relevant page , and then save you a bit of time . |
30 | I sent money and a small gift for Harry : ‘ if you can speak to him , that is — he will have been in enough hot water already on my account … ’ |