Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if I shall join the company yet , I may do , I may go to Paris , I may die , my face may even turn blue . |
| 2 | Jones yelled , ‘ I 'm damned if I 'll bowl a full-toss ! ’ |
| 3 | If I might make a suggestion — shut up and sit down . |
| 4 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 5 | I wonder if I might have a word with your son . ’ |
| 6 | SIR — I wonder if I might add a recommendation of my own to George Walden 's perceptive comments on alleged bias in television ( article , April 13 ) . |
| 7 | I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight . |
| 8 | If I may remind the house of the background to this . |
| 9 | While all this talk of constitutional change is in the air — Kinnock proposes to abolish the House of Lords and dismember the United Kingdom , as well as to forbid the whole country from hunting — I wonder if I may make a proposal . |
| 10 | If I may make a return by listening to your troubles , I am very willing to do so . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If I may make a suggestion , ’ Horowitz , also standing , addressed Evans . |
| 12 | ‘ Actually , ’ Morton said hesitantly , ‘ if I may borrow a phrase from some distinguished bon viveur whose name I have forgotten , nowadays I like my fruit a little green . ’ |
| 13 | I am very sure that you will agree with me , if I may borrow a phrase from Joyce , that we all hope that it 's not at all unlikely that George Craig will come again to preach . |
| 14 | That much is made clear by Shakespeare , early on in the sequence , as if to forestall suspicion or criticism , in Sonnet 20 , which his protagonist addresses to the deuteragonist ( if I may borrow the terminology of the historians of drama to stress the fictive , dramatic status of the personae in these poems ) : That is as clear a statement of the non-sexual relationship between the two personae as could be wished for , and a wittier one than most . |
| 15 | A bias , if I may coin a phrase , against the obvious . |
| 16 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
| 17 | Well if I may raise a number of issues under that report . |
| 18 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 19 | Well good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen I am delighted to welcome you to the R Y A's Annual General Meeting if I may call the meeting to order and may I propose that for those who 's convening the meeting printed on the front page of the annual report and accounts ninety , ninety one ninety two to be taken as read . |
| 20 | The methodology if I may use the word I dislike it intensely erm questionable point . |
| 21 | ‘ It was settled in Philips v. Bury , in which determination the profession has ever since acquiesced , that this court has no other power than that of putting the visitatorial power in motion , ( if I may use the expression , ) but that if the judgment of the visitor be ever so erroneous , we can not interfere in order to correct it . |
| 22 | In Rex v. Bishop of Ely , Lord Kenyon C.J. refused the rule upon this ground , and says , ‘ It was settled in Philips v. Bury , in which determination the profession has ever since acquiesced , that this court has no other power than that of putting the visitatorial power in motion , ( if I may use the expression ) ; but that if the judgment of the visitor be erroneous , we can not interfere in order to correct it . |
| 23 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 24 | Then — this was the really weird part — he asked if I would stay the night round there . |
| 25 | I was approached in this room about erm , twelve months ago , by Francis and Tricia erm , to ask if I would make a programme out for their group . |
| 26 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 27 | ‘ Bev asked me if I would like a drink . |
| 28 | Then , in 1963 , I was asked if I would write a piece on my own work for Living Arts , an immaculately produced but short-lived ICA magazine . |
| 29 | Now if I was to say erm er if I would have no doubt of course if if I did n't know about your connection with John . |
| 30 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |