Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if nothing could beat you once you 'd made up your mind . ’ |
| 2 | Smooth-haired , bright-eyed , immaculate , with the merest hint of a woody , masculine fragrance about him , he looked as if nothing could faze him . |
| 3 | Devastated I may be , but I 'm damned if I 'll give her the satisfaction of hearing me beg for mercy . |
| 4 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 5 | She made it specially for him , and I 'm damned if I 'll send it back . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm not sure if I 'll have you over the door-sill . ’ |
| 7 | I may have to nursemaid you , but I 'll be damned if I 'll let you bugger things up for me . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't think so , I do n't know if I 'll find it . |
| 9 | Erm Oh I do n't know if I 'll buy it . |
| 10 | Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her . |
| 11 | And and it is also perhaps distracted er attention from the interesting disagreements also taking place at the Labour party conference this week between the one more pushes , if I might describe them and the hard liners who believe you 've got to be radical . |
| 12 | Now , I wonder if I might trouble you . |
| 13 | I wonder if I might trouble you with two additional queries , however . |
| 14 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
| 15 | But how I longed to be gallant , as they say ; to ask her if I might kiss her on both cheeks if I gave her my two violets . |
| 16 | An East and West Association had been formed and I took an early opportunity of asking if I might address it . |
| 17 | But I would b , e very glad if I might see you on your return to ask you to help me in two cases . |
| 18 | The thing is , Bob , if I may give you some advice based on long and hard experience , not to start off by renting somewhere , if you can possibly avoid it . ’ |
| 19 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 20 | In fact you said er again if if I may offer you one of your quotes erm , If you have back benchers who wo n't support you , that limits governments abilities to take decisions . |
| 21 | In our various parties , organizations and institutions therefore we urgently need to recognize that most of our programmes , not least the programmes of our conferences and synods if I may leave you together in sin brothers and sisters |
| 22 | If I may refer you back to your note of our meeting on 18 January you recommended a more hardline wording for 15.1 and 15.2 on the main course , which ( given the less-direct competitive nature of the components ) we were willing to go more gently with on the video and Activity Book . |
| 23 | the authority if I may refer you to it is the recent report of the British er Columbia Supreme Court erm courtesy of professional negligence er in the updating section it 's a a . |
| 24 | ‘ But my feelings are different , if I may state them . |
| 25 | Erm , I 've written it out here if I may read it . |
| 26 | ‘ Mary — if I may call you that — yes , I have indeed some strange intelligence . |
| 27 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 28 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 29 | The Ariadne , if I may put it that way , is a hotbed of super-sensitivity . |
| 30 | ROS : A compulsion towards philosophical introspection is his chief characteristic , if I may put it like that . |