Example sentences of "if you could " in BNC.
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1 | I mean , you 've got an education , you 're prepared to work , you 've got the right background and everything … if you could explain more I might be able to help more . ’ |
2 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
3 | I would be so grateful if you could tell me the name of it , because it looks so unusual . |
4 | I wonder if you could give me any information on osteospermums . |
5 | This is a good thing because , even if you could , further impacts might well drive them inwards , skewering your lungs . |
6 | ‘ If you could only get over it . |
7 | If you could help to publicise Breathe Easy by displaying for distribution posters and leaflets please contact : Julie Roberts , Breathe Easy , British Lung Foundation , 8 Peterborough Mews , London SE6 3BL . |
8 | I wonder if you could possibly give me the address of the ‘ Dogs for the Disabled ’ charity , as I would like to send a donation but do n't know where to send it . |
9 | ‘ Was it not an instinctive reaction to break and see if you could help them , just in case you had to stop to do something about them ? ’ |
10 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
11 | If you could try and pinpoint one of them that 's doing the shouting . |
12 | Pat emerged from the kitchen ‘ You know why he was askin' you if you could play Wearin' o ’ the Green ? |
13 | It is as if you could read in them simultaneously transcriptions of inducement , threat , coercion , protection , solace , yearning and resistance . |
14 | Technically you are both liable for the overdraft and if you could find this man you could sue him . |
15 | ‘ Nevertheless , Mrs Atkins , I would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions down at the station … ’ |
16 | ( ‘ as if you could kill time without injuring eternity , ’ Thoreau said . ) |
17 | It was all her fault , if you could believe him . |
18 | ‘ When everyone bought things for cash , if you could n't afford something — well , it was tough luck , ’ agrees Simon Gelsthorpe of Bradford Health Authority , who 's worked with a wide range of adult emotional and psychological difficulties ( including chronic addictions ) . |
19 | You can not buy an office copier in Eastern Europe because if you could you would have a free press . ’ |
20 | And sometimes non-standard discount is given , a pig to deal with on the old system , but if you could add one extra input box on that screen there … |
21 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
22 | Not a true beauty , but the girl beckoned you off the paper ; confident , sexy , that face invited you to join in if you could stand the pace . |
23 | ‘ I understand the doctor wanted you to have a sleep if you could , Mr Morgan ‘ ’ Catherine Crane said briskly . |
24 | Massless electron neutrinos spin only one way : if you could see one coming towards you , it would always appear to be spinning clockwise . |
25 | If you could send one soon , I should be glad . |
26 | If you could n't trust the bastards then , why should you trust them now ? |
27 | If you could see your way to writing the first chapters of an autobiography I would be honoured to read it and give you my thoughts on the subject . |
28 | But it is no good ; I do n't know if you could even get into a home . ’ |
29 | ‘ I wonder if you could help me , ’ I said . |
30 | And if you could stop them laughing so … so raucously all night and … and' ’ |