Example sentences of "[conj] if i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We deliberately went for a position of responsibility and moderation in this argument , where if I may say so , some other people have n't put the same constraints on themselves . |
| 2 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 3 | I do n't know if I want to marry him , or if I will whenever it comes to the crunch . |
| 4 | I do n't know if anybody would ever give me work or if I 'd find time to do it . |
| 5 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 6 | So in other words then just to , just to summarize erm if I can come or if I can come up with er a recommendation to provide that sort of cover within that er price range erm then erm is there , is there any reason why when I do that er next time that you could n't , come back with an appointment next week , that you could n't er proceed ? |
| 7 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 8 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |
| 9 | He was n't put off and said that if I would please stay he would dance every dance with me . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll see what value I can get on the street in town for these and I 'll leave you this bag on the basis that if I ca n't dispose of them , I 'll be back for it . ’ |
| 11 | Mr has also asked me whether it is true that if I ca n't get what I want second best will do . |
| 12 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 14 | Be assured however that if I can in any manner contribute to the success of your efforts , either by the proposal of questions for discussion , or subjects for Papers or giving my opinions on any part of the Veterinary Art which you may think proper to investigate I shall at all times feel myself honored by the request , & I am persuaded that Mr Sewell will be most happy to ( ? add ) his exertions in any way congenial to your wishes . |
| 15 | What I 'm saying sir is to save any inconvenience to the court is that if I can have my committal cos I do n't wan na be stuck up in this part of the country . |
| 16 | I figured that if I can just get involved in whatever 's going on , in some sort of work that helps people … ’ |
| 17 | So often I wonder whether it 's my right to capitalise … on the grief of others , but then I justify my own particular thoughts by feeling that if I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through , then there is a reason for doing it . ’ |
| 18 | I mention that not in any boastful sense it 's only to reassure you that if I can do that then I , I ca n't be very much out of giving the wrong gen . |
| 19 | Now when that 's improved enough , I 'm gon na start asking these councillors and that if I can take their photograph . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that if I 'd come to you you would n't have sent me away with a flea in my ear ? ’ |
| 21 | Sense that if I could let Goldberg see it there must be something there to see . |
| 22 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 23 | I felt that if I could get into a regular habit-forming routine then I would be able to keep it up beyond the 30 days . |
| 24 | ‘ I always said that if I could not break 80 then I would not play . |
| 25 | The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows . |
| 26 | It was in a sling and I figured that if I could move it , I could play . ’ |
| 27 | Similarly , it may take no more than a momentary pang of empathetic distress to convince me that if I could become as aware from the sufferer 's viewpoint as from my own I would be spontaneously moved to help him even to my own cost . |
| 28 | Suffice it to say that if I could afford it , there would be pieces of bogwood where I have shown rocks at the back ! |
| 29 | I slept with only one dream , exulting in the thought that if I could do this , why should n't I one day try to do something to help Clare to walk more easily ? |
| 30 | The point is that if I could not be distinguished from others in some way , then the utterance ‘ It 's me ’ would be useless . |