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

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1 He had n't put pen to paper since the day before Martin died , and he doubted if he would ever do so again .
2 On his back , on his bunk , he doubted if he would ever trust another man again .
3 The portrait , he thought , must have been even more powerful than he realized if it could so dominate his physical reaction to the living woman .
4 It 's just that two people asked if we could just print the form relating to what is in the master job file and it on the same colour paper or card as the erm , job files .
5 I asked if they would please call me Richard — Dick , I said , made me feel like a symbol of some kind .
6 He asked if he could also have bonus money for the people below who had also contributed to his efforts .
7 When Poindexter somewhat curtly told him so , Ledeen asked if he could still keep the elements of the Grand Plan simmering along .
8 An Enfield clerical family took in a great-grandmother in her nineties for her last two years : ‘ she did n't want to go in a home and she wrote to my mother and asked if she could possibly look after her .
9 Neither knew if they would ever see each other again .
10 ‘ I thought if I could still do all this I must be allowed to continue .
11 He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre .
12 so , sh oh she said you , oh first of all she said you can go and get the key , so I said oh no I 'm not bothered about the key I said if you could just leave the side gate open , so erm
13 And he told me that if I He came from out Keyworth way , and he said If you can better yourself , Dorothy , do so .
14 The darkness was so total that she wondered if they would even be able to proceed without the aid of a torch .
15 I looked across and gave them a wave and wondered if they would still be alive next time I visited Breville .
16 There was also another young man with theatrical ambitions who wondered if they would ever he satisfied , even though he had produced The Wit To Woo .
17 He wondered if they 'd ever find husbands or boyfriends who would take them on such a holiday as this and rather doubted it .
18 Ken Clarke , having listened to one of our more heated exchanges , wondered if we would ever speak to each other again .
19 The house seemed quite grand but we only stayed one night as the following afternoon we entrained for Preston , a journey that took so long , I wondered if we would ever arrive .
20 He wondered if he would ever be able to do such a thing himself .
21 Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp .
22 And he wondered if he would ever discover them .
23 So Creggan became interested in the Sweeper , and wondered if he would ever come up to his cage and say something , in the way Men did .
24 She wondered if he would now ?
25 I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache .
26 Now those roses reminded her of Gerry , who had pasted them there , and she wondered if she would ever find the courage to scrape them off .
27 He wondered if she would ever regret it , and thought not .
28 She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory .
29 He wondered if she would indeed try to seduce him .
30 But at least he is here , she thought , and wondered if she would really have tried to get into the Workshops by herself if she had had to .
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