Example sentences of "that if i " in BNC.

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1 Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see .
2 Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate .
3 But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition .
4 But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’
5 But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’
6 Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary .
7 I was told that if I swore my performance would be stopped . ’
8 I found that if I did this , I felt much better and had the feeling that everything would be all right .
9 I 'm sure that if I 'd had this excellent book when learning to windsurf my progress would have been much faster .
10 ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’
11 ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’
12 We try to see that conditions at work are such that if I , to make it personal , was working in a particular factory , I would find them as congenial as they could reasonably be .
13 Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me .
14 I felt that if I looked back early the mud pool would blush and say ‘ pardon ’ .
15 At Martin Brundle 's lunch in London I discovered that Maurice Hamilton had been the Mastermind question-setter and he reported that if I thought answering them was hard , he had found setting them a good deal harder .
16 ‘ I feel that if I do n't sing , the world will pass me by , ’ she says .
17 By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself .
18 ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said .
19 He went on to say that if I did not return I would be making myself voluntarily homeless and would never be re-housed .
20 I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’
21 ‘ Political in the sense that if I threw this glass of water over you in an interview , that would be a political act .
22 Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try .
23 Did you know I feel that if I thought ( and if you ever did , I should know it as soon as the thought had crossed your brain ) you doubted my perfect love , truth , sincerity and striving for goodness , I must indeed give up all the good I have gained , and gain daily , by your love and mine .
24 ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’
25 I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take offence and leave me , if not permanently , then for a few days , without giving me a sign of life , and so leaving me in anguish .
26 When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’
27 ‘ Then may I have an undertaking that if I can manage to put on a show , a stupendous show — I promise you it will be — may I then retire from the post ?
28 ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence .
29 At one time I imagined that if I was n't obsessed with food and controlling my weight , if I did n't have a head stuffed full of calorie charts , I would be empty , have nothing to think about , nothing to fill up my life .
30 I always leave a minimum of one and a half hours so that if I have a blow-out or breakdown or some other unforeseen emergency , I still have time to take care of it and catch the plane .
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