Example sentences of "if [pron] could [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 | I know , and I I , I asked you if I could borrow it and you went , er and th you did n't |
| 4 | and either pay it all in one I asked if I could pay it do so much , you know so much a year |
| 5 | I tell my students during my evolution and behaviour course not to use the F word and the F word is fitness and I advise them strongly not to , and if I could ban it I would . |
| 6 | Sometimes I myself am not sure if I could do it . |
| 7 | Corman admitted , ‘ I did one film really more as a joke to see if I could do it ; filmed it in two days and a night . |
| 8 | I 'd probably pull him out if I could do it without too much danger to myself . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
| 10 | Our own son had practised Ramadan on one of his trips to the Middle East ‘ just to see if I could do it ’ . |
| 11 | But I summoned all my German and asked the maestro if I could do it myself . |
| 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 | if I had er if I could do it again I 'd do something erm really different from that , |
| 14 | enquired just to see if I could do it but er |
| 15 | But he finds out all these things but he does n't tell you and you keep getting killed and you think I wonder if I could do it |
| 16 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 17 | And if I could bring him to reconciliation with the king , without more bloodshed and without revenge , I would count it a good deed both for England and Wales . |
| 18 | Anyway , she told me to bring someone so I phoned and asked if I could bring you . ’ |
| 19 | I 've instructed all those you wish to see to be available today , but it would be helpful if I could give them some idea of the order in which you wish to see them . ’ |
| 20 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 21 | You would like , I daresay , if I could give you a clear and definite policy . |
| 22 | If I could give you just two very quick examples of what I mean , there is a proposal to reduce boarding out payments . |
| 23 | Three months is the maximum I can impose as you have never been in jail before , but if I could give you more , I would without hesitation . ’ |
| 24 | How do you think the retrospective scheme compensation scheme would actually work and if I could give you an example erm should it apply to all schemes which have been affected in the past er perhaps after a certain date or if you were going to make that decision , where would the cut-off date be , how far back would you go and what schemes would you look at Er if it 's gon na be retrospective ? |
| 25 | It would be more convenient for me if I could collect them on Friday 10 May in the afternoon , say at 3.30 p.m. or later rather than at 11.30 a.m . |
| 26 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 27 | Well if I could choose I would go to bed at about two o'clock in the morning and get up at about ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 28 | I wanted to see if I could experience it . |
| 29 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 30 | You 're very perceptive , because there are things playing on my mind , and yes … it would help me so much if I could talk them over with someone . |