Example sentences of "if i " in BNC.
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| 31 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 32 | If I were told to-morrow , ‘ You can have a united Ireland if you give up your idea of restoring the national language to be the spoken language of the majority of the people ’ , I would , for myself , say no . |
| 33 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 34 | If I am to do what you asked , he wrote , you will have to co-operate . |
| 35 | And yet , if I fail , it is only a failure . |
| 36 | If I could only resolve that lower right hand panel though , he wrote , or even decide once and for all to leave it empty , then perhaps the boredom would disappear . |
| 37 | If I am bored then I have not found the way to do what I wanted to do . |
| 38 | I work every day from 6.20 to 9.30 a.m. , he said , and then from 4 p.m. to midnight if I can . |
| 39 | That if I 'm not going forward I 'm going back . |
| 40 | If I am to live by that , he wrote , then this represents all I am capable of . |
| 41 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 42 | If I finish it , I said . |
| 43 | as if I needed any incentive . |
| 44 | Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see . |
| 45 | as if I was holding the thought in my hands , looking at it , turning it about . |
| 46 | As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday . |
| 47 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 48 | And why do reception staff often ask if I 've stayed with them before when I 'm booked on a regular customer discount ? |
| 49 | ‘ It would be ignoring the reality of the current trading position if I said I did n't believe there were more closures to come . |
| 50 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 51 | She keeps wanting to know if I play golf . |
| 52 | If I ca n't find Mr Clancy , maybe David can coax it to work . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ I 'll see if I can locate Mr Clancy , ’ she said , in some alarm . |
| 54 | ‘ Cissy , Freddy — if I might make so bold ? ’ |
| 55 | I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham . |
| 56 | I bet if I told those Germans downstairs what I knew about Father 's job they 'd sit up and pay attention . |
| 57 | If I could stay hidden until Kezia and the rest of the foreigners had gone , I would be all right . |
| 58 | The way I see it — if I had saved the world from a lot of boring belly dancers I ought to be congratulated . |
| 59 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |
| 60 | ‘ I would n't wear muddy hunting boots if I was going to climb in through a bedroom window and murder a lady , ’ said Ethel . |