Example sentences of "if [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If no-one will write your letters for you , and you do n't want to do them yourself , Correct Letters could be the answer . |
| 2 | Her father was unwell , she explained ; it would be helpful if everyone would leave the theatre as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | If everyone could look after their own , there would be far fewer people like social workers running around looking after other people 's own . |
| 4 | If everyone can manage this we will all be able to go on quietly shaving our heads , lighting our candles , starving ourselves on particular days of the year — and no-one will mind or probably even notice . |
| 5 | If everyone can learn to understand , however , how wars can be started so easily , there is a hope that more people might work to prevent them . |
| 6 | He says he says that it 's gon na stop crime so much cos if everyone can have a gun . |
| 7 | On the Master of the Roll 's reasoning it would appear to me as if nothing can preserve the true character and origin and parentage of the income paid to the beneficiaries through their bankers unless that be done by lodging with those bankers the dividends , share warrants and the like received by the trustees but not cashed . |
| 8 | Cradled within his arms , Laura drifted into a deep sleep , but , even as she dreamed , their bodies seemed to stir against one another , as if they could n't help but touch and make love again ; as if nothing could satisfy the desire that each had awakened in the other 's flesh . |
| 9 | Now it looks as if nothing could stop West Germany taking the lead with her unbeatable combination of credentials : guilt , enthusiasm , material interest and money . |
| 10 | as if nothing could beat you once you 'd made up your mind . ’ |
| 11 | Smooth-haired , bright-eyed , immaculate , with the merest hint of a woody , masculine fragrance about him , he looked as if nothing could faze him . |
| 12 | Agreeing with other councillors that someone might be able to find a use for such items , especially now that cast iron baths are now in fashion , the chairman wondered if someone might consider using it for horses . |
| 13 | He sniffed his whisky as if someone might have doctored it , then took a gulp . |
| 14 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 15 | He remembered the ancient legends of the Guardians , the Brotherhood of Sorcerers who would serve and master if they were paid enough , and who would guard anything in the world if someone would employ them sufficiently profitably ; he remembered as well that the Conablaiche and the Lad of the Skins were abroad in the world again . |
| 16 | Mind you , if someone would like to sponsor this work it might be that the Great Central Railway would be happy to give the locomotive a different identity for a short period . |
| 17 | i if someone would like to volunteer to do these transpositions , |
| 18 | In view of the circumstances of his team 's downfall , perhaps the most ironic touch about the final was that Chapman had said in the Sunday Express a week before the game : ‘ I know nothing of the art of clairvoyance , but I should feel happier if someone would foretell me the vital incident which is almost sure to decide the match . |
| 19 | An unidentified spokesman for the V&A was quoted in The Independent newspaper of 16 May , 1992 ( which featured several colour illustrations from the album ) as stating , ‘ We have always said that we could not raise the money to buy it , but would be very happy if someone would buy it and give it to us ’ . |
| 20 | If someone would come he could ask them to check the brake on the van . |
| 21 | Even if someone should sin against you seven times a day , Jesus says you should forgive those seven times ( Luke 17:4 ) . |
| 22 | If someone should succeed in doing this in some particular case , says Gassendi , |
| 23 | Would you say that , perhaps it shows a flaw in the examination system if someone could do this ? |
| 24 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 25 | Obviously , they deserved to be beaten out of sight , but since the weather had looked almost certain to save them if someone could have stayed there , the collapse became even more abject . |
| 26 | After a while , though , she pulled herself together and , leaving one copy on her desk , took the other down to the secretarial room and asked if someone could run her off two more copies , ideally before the board meeting . |
| 27 | No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it . |
| 28 | Propositions 53 — 71 are the application of this thought to expectation ( for example , 56 : ‘ If someone could see the expectation itself — he would have to see what is being expected ’ ; 60 : ‘ Reality is not a property still missing in what is expected and which accedes to it when one 's expectation comes about ’ ) ; 331–70 , to colours ( for example , 331 : ‘ One is tempted to justify rules of grammar by sentences like ‘ But there really are four primary colours . |
| 29 | There was a sense of immaturity in our society , an admiration of the crook , the kind of cock-eyed notion that if someone could get away with it he was a Robin Hood type who could somehow feather his own nest and at the same time feather theirs . |
| 30 | ‘ If someone could find a round the world trip lasting six months , I would happily go , ’ commented one accountant . |