Example sentences of "[adv] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germaine Meyer was wearing a sky-blue blouse that summer afternoon and Modigliani was immediately arrested by her colouring , a blend of rose and white , and asked her eagerly if he could paint her . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps if everybody had a stake in the business , they would work better , ’ said Robyn . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps if we tried to get things straight in our minds now , it might hurry the enquiry along , ’ Peggy suggested , casually . |
| 4 | Perhaps if we offered to replace Crevecoeur for her … |
| 5 | Never mind , ’ said Breeze valiantly , ‘ perhaps if we 're awfully careful and cheese-paring for the next forty years or so , we may end our days in some sweet little cottage with roses round the door … ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps if we are American we long for the early seventeenth-century Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 7 | Perhaps if we fed our children on some solid doctrine and not gimmicks they would not be leaving the Church in such numbers . |
| 8 | Perhaps if we win here for two more matches before the Test England would have more cause to worry . |
| 9 | Throughout his career Chaplin took every care to sustain the idea that his life had been a kind of Victorian romance and perhaps if we allow for certain embellishments we can accept this interpretation as legitimate . |
| 10 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 11 | Right , I hope , we wo n't be to long now , perhaps if we could just bring up the item you wanted to mention . |
| 12 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 13 | I have nothing against the monarchy , in principle , erm I think that perhaps if we had our own parliament in Scotland and had the Queen as a head of state , as do Australia , Canada , and all the commonwealth countries , that would be fine . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps if we give her a little more time ? ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps if we get dwellings as I say , up here . |
| 16 | Perhaps if we look beyond superficial disagreements we may find that today 's men and women of influence share fundamental beliefs and that these beliefs can inspire a common approach to community care . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm half inclined to pursue her tomorrow ; perhaps if we had her we would have a few more answers to all this . |
| 18 | Perhaps if we succeed it will be published by SquattervilIe Publishers later this year . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps if we took a good running jump — ’ he began . |
| 20 | Perhaps if we could find out more about where they came from , we might be able to say why they came . |
| 21 | Perhaps if we can arrive at some sort of specific amounts or some research in that direction , we might Mr Chairman , be able to take representations to government in a more positive way . |
| 22 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 23 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |
| 24 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 25 | Perhaps if we may . |
| 26 | And er I think perhaps if we could put a c are are we allowed to put round the table some |
| 27 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 28 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
| 29 | Well perhaps if we will , we were n't to , if we went next week , we 'd have two weeks earlier than last year wo n't we ? |
| 30 | perhaps if we can quickly , I mean I do n't want a lot out of Tesco 's , it will just save turning out , I do n't mind turning out this afternoon but , if the traffic |