Example sentences of "if i ca " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I ca n't take him he will have a two-hour wait for an ambulance . |
| 2 | If I ca n't find Mr Clancy , maybe David can coax it to work . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 're at pains to stress this is n't a protest , but we were here for rest and recreation , ’ he said , ‘ so if I ca n't send my men ashore ; there 's not much point in staying . ’ |
| 4 | If I ca n't read or understand something in the paper he discusses it with me — about what is happening in the country or the community or about what politics can mean . |
| 5 | Sometimes I get embarrassed if I ca n't do summat on my own . |
| 6 | I do n't want to be ‘ kept ’ by him , so if I ca n't afford to go out we just stay in and read together or just watch television . |
| 7 | ‘ If I ca n't make it , take Elinor . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What if I ca n't come back ? ’ |
| 9 | OUP , £25 ‘ I DO N'T care for life if I ca n't fill it with work , ’ Annie Besant often declared to her friends . |
| 10 | ‘ If I ca n't get her back to the sea , I 'll have to become a farmer , ’ he said . |
| 11 | If I ca n't still clamber up a mountain when I 'm 55 , subject to health and having both legs of course , I want to be put down humanely . |
| 12 | The fact that people will give money to save the otter , a nocturnal animal whose presence is detected even by full-time otter survey teams only by its tracks and droppings , is the best answer I know to that mean-spirited and illogical argument : ‘ What 's the use of saving it , if I ca n't see it ? ’ |
| 13 | I feel deprived if I ca n't have the same as everyone else ; |
| 14 | If I ca n't join can I go and watch them tracking ? |
| 15 | ‘ Mother , I ca n't support us if I ca n't work . ’ |
| 16 | Mother , I ca n't support us if I ca n't work , she always used to say when she wanted a bit of peace and quiet … what chance of peace and quiet with a baby in the tiny flat ? |
| 17 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 18 | ‘ If I ca n't find anywhere else I 'll come back |
| 19 | A time will come when you will know that she is no longer saying to herself , ‘ If I ca n't have him , I do n't want anything ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm certainly not in 2:12 shape at the moment but I 'll be disappointed if I ca n't improve on my 2:23 from last year . |
| 21 | It can he useful to recap on the action you want taken after putting on pressure : ‘ If I call talk about it today , then I 'll be able to get on with the project — if I ca n't , the project is going to have to he delayed . |
| 22 | ( a ) ‘ If I can talk about it today , then I 'll be able to get on with the project — if I ca n't , the project is going to have to be delayed . |
| 23 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 24 | And if I ca n't get in by land , they have no powers to stop me doing so by sea . |
| 25 | So maybe I am adding things on as ‘ an afterthought ’ , but , if I ca n't be a designer , I am trying to be a good technician . |
| 26 | The England squad is announced next week and he said : ‘ There 's little chance of being involved with England if I ca n't get in my club side first . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm really not a great buyer — if I ca n't wear it and I ca n't eat it , then I 'm not that bothered . |
| 28 | ‘ Copper Blue ’ , meanwhile , is released on September 7 and features nine tracks including ‘ Changes ’ , live favourite ‘ Helpless ’ and a new version of ‘ If I Ca n't Change Your Mind ’ . |
| 29 | Virtually every track is a winner , though it 's the optimistic ones which shine through initially , like the recent ( prophetic ) single ‘ Changes ’ with its sinewy lead guitar line , and Side Two 's poppy ‘ If I Ca n't Change Your Mind ’ . |
| 30 | There are still glimpses of Mould 's feeling of uselessness — if not with himself , then with his relationship with other people , borne out by the aforementioned ‘ If I Ca n't Change Your Mind ’ and the earlier ‘ Helpless ’ . |