Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | And that 's about What what what it is is they 've just someone 's asked me if I 'll just do some recordings of some of the lessons . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'll never guess , there 's no point in me trying . ’ |
| 4 | While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's extremely doubtful if I 'll ever find another comet , ’ declares Alcock . |
| 6 | Italy 's a really wonderful country , I wonder if I 'll ever get a chance to go back . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't know if I 'll ever get some more . |
| 8 | I feel as if I 'll always have somewhere to come home to . |
| 9 | Once again his arm , brown and corded , swept silencingly towards the sea and the mountains and the south , as if I might not have properly appreciated it . |
| 10 | ‘ Er , if I might just interject , ’ Mojo 's agent removed the pen from his client 's hand and screwed back the top , ‘ I have certain reservations regarding several of the clauses . ’ |
| 11 | has suddenly backfired and allowed a noxious element to it , to creep in because , if I might just carry on . |
| 12 | And if I might just come in on this thing that 's always thrown up against Mrs. Thatcher about her rejoice , she said rejoice when South Georgia had been retaken and the rejoice was because it appeared to have been done without any casualties — that was what she was rejoicing for , not the victory erm |
| 13 | also history if I might just say that when the Post Office er split from the Civil Service , the firm was in deficit for twenty years and of course Post Office management say quite clearly that they were putting in sums of eighteen per cent of the pay bill when it was only supposed to be nine per cent of the pay bill and that 's why they 're entitled to the to the surplus . |
| 14 | If I might just wait here till the storm passes , till daylight , perhaps , and then try again to track my things down ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I was wondering , if it would n't be too much of an imposition , if I might possibly buy you lunch . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If I might possibly butt in a moment … |
| 17 | Sometimes I get embarrassed if I ca n't do summat on my own . |
| 18 | If I ca n't do it all , which of those things that I really need or want to do am I going to have to leave undone ? |
| 19 | ‘ If I ca n't do what I want I 'd rather call this whole thing off . ’ |
| 20 | If I ca n't do something that simple then I 'm not worthy to be called your partner ’ |
| 21 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 22 | For example — and just , as they say , off the top of my own head — I can imagine , even if I ca n't paint , these prototypically Magrittian images : a revolver that fires doves ; a two-humped animal with heads at each end ( a palindromedary , perhaps ) a painting of the Crucifixion that is itself ( the painting I mean ) nailed to a Cross ; an unearthly skyscape in which the four Presidents ' heads from Mount Rushmore emerge out of a billowing bank of clouds . |
| 23 | She ca n't spend all day monitoring my blood sugar and giving me my thyroid medicine , and if I ca n't paint I shall go mad ! ’ |
| 24 | Well my waterwo , if I start drinking and then I 'll want to go , and if I ca n't go |
| 25 | cos she said if I ca n't go do you want two tickets ? |
| 26 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 27 | It 's as if I ca n't feel any more . |
| 28 | The Ex-Wives returns to the comic vein of some of her earlier writing : ‘ I wanted to entertain myself , I lay on the floor on my stomach , scribbling away and laughing — well , if I ca n't laugh at my own jokes , who else can ? ’ |
| 29 | If I ca n't manage it in a quiet room , or a temporary study , I impose it on everyone at least for a short time . |
| 30 | So if I ca n't eat , I wo n't talk . ’ |