Example sentences of "[vb base] if [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . "
2 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 .
3 If , I mean if we can only , if we can only invite the , the people that are he I mean the , they allow us release for this type of meeting mind you .
4 There 's no point in me doing it I mean if I could just hear Ben going ah ah ah
5 So I 'll see you back at the church I mean if I can just park down by Devon Square I will , but otherwise I 'll park
6 I mean if you 'd rather get them if you 'd rather save fifty P .
7 And I never phone unless I can erm , well you know if I can possibly avoid it I never phone at the most expensive time of day , I avoid mornings like the plague if I can possibly manage
8 Were open I mean there 's been lots of things done like that I mean you maybe aware of this sort of jazz in the Gilbey bar on Saturday lunch time and that 's been running some time then it 'll cease to come back again you know if you 'll actually counting on the people actually coming cos of the jazz there I think as your looking at it it was slightly up it was n't a was n't great influx because there was jazz available so yeah we 'll certainly look introducing things into different areas of the theatre but from past experience it does n't automatically follow that if you can do that then you know it 's gon na happen .
9 You know if you can just actually repeat it back .
10 It 's my stomach again , I feel if I could just get it
11 I doubt if we shall ever know enough to do it , but these dear dead creatures are lurking there forever in their private corners of that huge genetic hypervolume , waiting to be found if we but had the knowledge to navigate the right course through the maze .
12 I doubt if we 'll ever hear a man play a saxophone like that again .
13 But I doubt if they 'll ever be fished .
14 I doubt if anyone would seriously doubt that , now , as a matter of fact , this is the case .
15 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 . ’
16 I doubt if he 'll even notice you 're not here . ’
17 Well , I suspect that you have made an enemy , though I doubt if he will ever be in a position to offer repayment for your treatment of him .
18 I doubt if I would ever have been quite to aware of this had we not gone through this disaster .
19 ‘ Even if I were n't of Hindu stock , I doubt if I would ever have been attracted by the notion of eating a cow 's stomach . ’
20 Before returning to the Cape , he had written ‘ I have been idle so long that I doubt if I shall ever do a single grand battement in my life again — I crack when I move . ’
21 For the past seven years I 've skied in a selection of one-piece uninsulated shell suits and I doubt if I will ever turn back .
22 I wonder if they would sooner live in a tribal hut than the white man 's three-bedroomed house with fully-fitted kitchen ? ’
23 The tragedy is that life has now become complex and involved , and they wonder if they can ever break themself from all those things that are now hindrances .
24 But before that before the sell out concert tour in Ireland , did you ever think I wonder what they 'll think of us back home I wonder if we 'll still do it ?
25 I wonder if we shall ever run into him .
26 ‘ Norman , ’ said de Sousa as the coffee and brandy were being poured , I wonder if we ought perhaps to have just a tiny natter about the programme . ’
27 I wonder if we could just consider the question of what is meant by the term general location .
28 I wonder if we could just finish with a very brief comment from you in a positive sense as to what would be your advice to somebody that 's unemployed ?
29 I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation .
30 Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ?
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