Example sentences of "[vb past] if i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried how he could bear it by putting his fingers into the lighted candle , so I the other day tried if I could scour a pewter plate . |
| 2 | I never tried if I could help |
| 3 | Some of them use super P C K and some of them use Smart Drive and buggered if I can tell the difference . |
| 4 | So I asked if I might go through it again and try some of the ideas he talked about . |
| 5 | When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile . |
| 6 | Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her . |
| 7 | I said I wished mine to be destroyed , but asked if I might keep some of hers of a literary interest . |
| 8 | He was then , of course , in opposition and particularly asked if I might advise on what would be a sensible housing policy when the Labour Party came to power . |
| 9 | Alexandra said , ‘ She asked if I might go to Cornwall ? |
| 10 | ‘ He remarked on me seeming worried about it and asked if I might be pregnant . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 12 | He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson , I said ‘ No ’ , which he said relieved him . |
| 13 | On a night in early winter , one of those wild exciting nights with a brilliant moon sliding in and out of the racing clouds , Mrs Browning rang , and asked if I would go down . |
| 14 | I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton . |
| 15 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 16 | When I was in a fit state she asked if I would like to talk to her . |
| 17 | One of them asked if I would like some beetroot . |
| 18 | He asked if I would say that ‘ on the record ’ . |
| 19 | Then she asked if I would knit some for other mothers , so I agreed to her putting my name on her notice board . |
| 20 | On 26 April I was summoned by Mr Baker to his office at the Department of Education and Science , and asked if I would chair a Working Group to prepare proposals for English in the National Curriculum . |
| 21 | A nice government official helping to run the camp asked if I would mind staying until all the old and sick and pregnant women were flown out , and of course we were only too pleased to stay . |
| 22 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 23 | I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday . |
| 24 | ‘ A few of them actually ASKED if I would mind having the clothes ripped off my back . |
| 25 | Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me . |
| 26 | My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him . |
| 27 | Haines asked if I would ring up Max Aitken — whom he knew to be a very good friend — to ask him to dissuade his editor from publishing the story , which had until then been kept as a dark secret . |
| 28 | Then — this was the really weird part — he asked if I would stay the night round there . |
| 29 | I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English . |
| 30 | He asked if I would do this play , and I agreed . ’ |