Example sentences of "if [pron] could [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 2 | If I could just take your address . ’ |
| 3 | God , if I could just get my hands on the bastards who did that to your house ! |
| 4 | If I could just add my thanks to the officers substantial piece of work , which is , I hope going to be used by many members to come for the next year . |
| 5 | ‘ If I could perhaps have your address for delivery please , Miss Milligan , ’ the chief assistant requested . |
| 6 | If she could only gain her room unnoticed , she would be able to sit quietly in the rocking chair with a book and — |
| 7 | He wound up the interview and was rising to say goodbye when Catherine , sounding shy , asked Peter Yeo if she could possibly use their ladies ' room . |
| 8 | Dorcas does n't believe in you , and I certainly do n't believe in you , but if you could just see your way clear to existing just long enough for us to find them , we 'd all appreciate it very much . |
| 9 | If we could somehow persuade our planet to become a black hole , it would be about the size of a marble — but still possessing all the mass of the original Earth . |
| 10 | So if we could all try our best to get here at eight o' clock . |
| 11 | If we could only learn his secret , Implexion thought , staring into the moonlit darkness of Inanna 's bedroom . |
| 12 | Ixmarity would know no bounds , if we could only learn his secret . |
| 13 | Would you please mention in your classes that when ordering it would help us if they could also state their teacher 's name . |
| 14 | There was some room for individuals and groups to experiment with limited co-operation across factional lines if they could temporarily forget their religious and sometimes political differences . |
| 15 | The portrait , he thought , must have been even more powerful than he realized if it could so dominate his physical reaction to the living woman . |
| 16 | She was wondering if it was true , if he could somehow arrange her release ; doctors had ordered her internment , so surely it was possible for another doctor to end it . |
| 17 | Yes , Arnold Thomas had done a bad thing in deserting him just when he needed him most , and he had been a rogue of the worst kind to have stolen money into the bargain ; but if he could only find his son , he would tell him that all was forgiven , and that he wanted him here , in his rightful place , at the helm of his father 's business . |
| 18 | ‘ You promised Dana not to tell me something , ’ she said , wondering if he could actually hear her heart breaking . |