Example sentences of "if i could " in BNC.

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1 I wanted to see if I could experience it .
2 It would be sitting at the pictures if I could have the money to do it fill time .
3 And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see .
7 If I could stay hidden until Kezia and the rest of the foreigners had gone , I would be all right .
8 Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema .
9 I went in , explained the position I was in and asked if I could see one of the rooms .
10 I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this .
11 Without thinking , I got up and went over to see if I could lend a hand .
12 Actually , the best thing would be if I could get back to you .
13 The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off .
14 Satie , God , if I could write like Satie writes music !
15 If I could just reach out and touch your face …
16 ‘ And Mr Cameron — it might be convenient for you as well. t , ‘ If I could tell you …
17 ‘ I would not tell you if I could .
18 If I could reach the peg perhaps we could complete this amazing alpine climb ?
19 On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice
20 I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality .
21 I would find it very hard to follow gut feel if I could not put forward arguments on two sides of a sheet of paper as to why it was the right decision .
22 Sometimes I myself am not sure if I could do it .
23 If I could just have Mr. Pertwee 's address … ’
24 It 's pretty good fun , but it 'd be better if I could float .
25 If I could get a job doing summat like that I reckon I would n't have to stay at Combe Court .
26 If I could have summat to eat , I 'd have a big bowl of oxtail soup — all hot and steamy .
27 There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words , if I could grasp it , far beyond ancient English . ’
28 They made me wonder if I could use pure woven wool as a base for my own technique with the machine .
29 ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’
30 ‘ I would be a rich man if I could .
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