Example sentences of "if i [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm damned if I 'll bow to anyone . |
| 2 | Alexandra said , ‘ She asked if I might go to Cornwall ? |
| 3 | So I asked if I might go through it again and try some of the ideas he talked about . |
| 4 | He was then , of course , in opposition and particularly asked if I might advise on what would be a sensible housing policy when the Labour Party came to power . |
| 5 | When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile . |
| 6 | I hope too that this beautiful countryside and this beautiful college will be conducive to good thoughts , reflections and reappraisals , and if I might say to the men I hope there are not too many of the female students floating up and down the corridors to further divert your attention . |
| 7 | ‘ If I might butt in here , ’ he was saying ( puff ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I wonder if I might begin with my family , ’ she said . |
| 9 | There 's just one thing if I might add to that . |
| 10 | ‘ Gerald , I wonder if I might trespass on your good nature ? ’ |
| 11 | If I may return to my earlier metaphor — you will excuse my putting it so coarsely — they are like a man who will , at the slightest provocation , tear off his suit and his shirt and run about screaming . |
| 12 | Anyway , if I may return to our Treasurer 's anguished tale , matters became ever worse . |
| 13 | Erm , I think I 'll leave it at that for this moment in time and er if I may speak at at the end . |
| 14 | ‘ My lord , if I may speak for Shrewsbury , both abbey and town , I must tell you how grateful we are that Saint Winifred fell into such noble hands as yours . |
| 15 | If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown , we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind . |
| 16 | ‘ And your father — if I may speak of him too — was a man all of us admired … ’ |
| 17 | If I may speak as one who has heard all the centenary lectures and restraining myself from being invidious , I will merely say : George , it was an admirable centenary lecture , and the huge spinning top of words , despite its complexity , kept the patterns clear and sharp and arguable . |
| 18 | ‘ If I may speak in a spirit of complaint , David , I might point out that it 's easy for you to talk and even easier to talk tough . |
| 19 | Yes , I readily accept that , er my general proposition is in er connection with the settlement pattern of York , and it is necessary clearly to have er careful regard to that existing settlement pattern , erm if I may refer to the helpful plan that has in fact been produced , I believe by the County Council , it is in fact an appendix to B two zero zero four , er this plan does actually indicate the general extent of the settlements outside the outer ring road of York . |
| 20 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 21 | ‘ I have nearly come to the end of what I have to say but there is one final complication if I may impose on your patience a little longer . |
| 22 | My Lords , if I may revert to the proposition that a person can not consent to the theft of property from himself , it is absurd to suppose that a company consents to the theft of its own property , merely because the thief is for most purposes of the company its directing mind . |
| 23 | If I may digress for a moment , I refer him in turn to the successful water system invented by the Greeks at Pergamon . |
| 24 | If I may say to those on the Front Benches too , half-hour speeches would help the whole House . |
| 25 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 26 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 27 | While he was in opposition , Ted Heath had asked me if I would go to Rhodesia on behalf of the Conservative Party if they were returned to power . |
| 28 | I du n no if I would go to one now . |
| 29 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 30 | She asked me if I would speak to the police for her . |