Example sentences of "if [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If everyone could look after their own , there would be far fewer people like social workers running around looking after other people 's own . |
| 2 | Now it looks as if nothing could stop West Germany taking the lead with her unbeatable combination of credentials : guilt , enthusiasm , material interest and money . |
| 3 | as if nothing could beat you once you 'd made up your mind . ’ |
| 4 | Moreover , if nothing could ever be taken for granted , there would be large deadweight losses arising from bargaining and factionalism . |
| 5 | Smooth-haired , bright-eyed , immaculate , with the merest hint of a woody , masculine fragrance about him , he looked as if nothing could faze him . |
| 6 | Cradled within his arms , Laura drifted into a deep sleep , but , even as she dreamed , their bodies seemed to stir against one another , as if they could n't help but touch and make love again ; as if nothing could satisfy the desire that each had awakened in the other 's flesh . |
| 7 | I wanted to see if I could experience it . |
| 8 | It would be sitting at the pictures if I could have the money to do it fill time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see . |
| 13 | If I could stay hidden until Kezia and the rest of the foreigners had gone , I would be all right . |
| 14 | Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema . |
| 15 | I went in , explained the position I was in and asked if I could see one of the rooms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Without thinking , I got up and went over to see if I could lend a hand . |
| 18 | Actually , the best thing would be if I could get back to you . |
| 19 | The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off . |
| 20 | Satie , God , if I could write like Satie writes music ! |
| 21 | If I could just reach out and touch your face … |
| 22 | ‘ And Mr Cameron — it might be convenient for you as well. t , ‘ If I could tell you … |
| 23 | ‘ I would not tell you if I could . |
| 24 | If I could reach the peg perhaps we could complete this amazing alpine climb ? |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sometimes I myself am not sure if I could do it . |
| 29 | If I could just have Mr. Pertwee 's address … ’ |
| 30 | It 's pretty good fun , but it 'd be better if I could float . |