Example sentences of "[vb base] if [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever would Daisy and Edwin Pettigrew say if they could see such behaviour ! ’ |
| 2 | Well would you perhaps like to give them a , a ring to , to say what I spoke about today then I 'll give them a ring , say if you could ring them tomorrow then I 'll ring them er er tomorrow evening a as well and then perhaps I can , you know , they , you 've given them the ground work to actually er for me to ring as well and then I can discuss with him and arrange an appointment to go and see him is that okay ? |
| 3 | as I say if you could erm if you could some time soon drop a note off in my tray about , you know , kind of what exactly you 've got outstanding so I can go round and see the erm see the people concerned and , and say that you 've been |
| 4 | Imagine if you could go in and buy maybe four of the pencil-slim skirts in different colours . |
| 5 | But would you and your fellows spontaneously so react if you could break through traditional assumptions to a fuller awareness of the recurring situation ? |
| 6 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 7 | I mean if we could get that one down at New Drove what is it , twenty nine ? |
| 8 | two hundred and twenty nine then hundred and seventy five but I mean if we could sell them six quid a time well |
| 9 | Wa I would n't mind buying one of them myself you know wi I mean if we could sell ours |
| 10 | I mean if they could open nine days a week , they could n't get any more money out of me because |
| 11 | If you had your own cat as they 're very territorial animals , I mean if they could see them off . |
| 12 | I mean if I could write something as good as that , I would feel really proud . |
| 13 | There 's no point in me doing it I mean if I could just hear Ben going ah ah ah |
| 14 | I mean if I could make a general point . |
| 15 | I mean if you could do that |
| 16 | I mean if you could You know what we 're looking for now . |
| 17 | Well when they was feeding these up , you could have one for yourself as long as you let the government have one , see , and er , er , of course the next to feed a pig up , see , but er , I mean if you could fed them properly you could erm , perhaps get one ready in er , six to nine months you see , and er , which would be a , a good bacon pig like , if you fed it er , correctly . |
| 18 | The strategy could not make , nor sustain if it could , the ceteris paribus conditions such as the idea of a perfect vacuum in which objects fall at a constant rate of acceleration whatever their size and shape . |
| 19 | Some things at that time were no doubt very good ; but I suspect if we could hear some of them now we simply would not tolerate them . |
| 20 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 21 | Jean Glass and Betty Syrett would be prepared to co-ordinate if this were wanted and it would be appreciated if those teaching in London let either Betty or Jean or the office know if they could help . |
| 22 | And everybody was I 'm not joking , there must have been a couple of hundred people that either they 're shopping or watching , you know if they could . |
| 23 | This is it , this is it , I suppose if we could surround it in wood or |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's my stomach again , I feel if I could just get it |
| 26 | ‘ All those birds are as common as dirt around here , but I guess if they could be of some use to you , that 's great . ’ |
| 27 | I doubt if anyone could have been much more unhappy than I was living with them at Maythorpe House . |
| 28 | The college has fallen into a state of such disrepair since it was closed down that I doubt if anyone could truthfully class it as that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She did not seem to me to have very much insight , ’ Alida said bitterly , ‘ I doubt if she could assess a human situation very accurately , I doubt if she would know where the truth of a matter lay . ’ |
| 30 | I doubt if she could drive it in that time . |