Example sentences of "that if i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I realise I have been the bane of certain UKCC officers ’ lives and I hope that if I am elected I will continue to act as a grain of sand in the oyster . |
| 2 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |
| 3 | So that is another area that if I was to put a ban on imports |
| 4 | I remember absolutely one hundred percent doing that , and I have to say that if I was faced with a similar situation again of a naked man , I really do n't know if I 'd bother to put his trousers on . |
| 5 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 6 | He 'd said that if I was asked about it , I should act surprised and say it was nothing to do with me . |
| 7 | ‘ I realise that if I was to move to South Africa I would be living a completely different existence . |
| 8 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 9 | Well , I figured that if I was going to have to stick to 55mph all the way to Boston and back , I might as well make the most of it and see as much of the countryside as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 11 | Trade & Travel kindly gave me a fez ‘ for my daughter ’ , which resulted in a complaint from one colleague that if I was going to invent one offspring why not a few more so that all the staff could have fezzes . |
| 12 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 13 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 14 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 15 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 16 | told that it has changed , but at that time , and I know my feeling was left that if I was raped I would n't never go to the police . |
| 17 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
| 18 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 19 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 20 | There is enough in evidence here to convince me that if I were to submit a checklist to Jimmy Moon the resulting guitar would be a very fine instrument indeed . |
| 21 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 22 | My responsibilities vanished but I think they suspected that if I were sacked there would be a public fuss so they had to proceed by stealth . |
| 23 | Yet I know that if I were discussing a performance of , say , the ‘ Eroica ’ Symphony , I would come down like a ton of bricks on imprecise ensemble , where others would readily accept the fault if the interpretation was up to it ! |
| 24 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 25 | The day before the dinner I received word from the admiral 's ADC that if I were to present myself at 6.55 p.m. at his suite in the Gosforth Park Hotel , where we were both staying , he would give me a lift to the dockyard . |
| 26 | No doubt some will defend the right to march on grounds of civil liberties for they will swiftly perceive that if I were to get my way , all kinds of trade union demonstrations to say nothing of peace marches would fall under the ban . |
| 27 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 28 | You imagine that if I were to catalogue for you the incidents of my life , and tell you all my memories , you would come to know me better . |
| 29 | I believe that if I 'm given the chance to fight the George Forman of old , the George Forman of today would be the better . |
| 30 | So I would venture to suggest that if I 'm interviewing you as the Environmental Health Officer for a particular council on a council matter , then I would expect you to only speak on behalf of the council — unless I asked you whether your professional body was happy with your council 's policy . |