Example sentences of "if i can [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Under these conditions he might say the following : ‘ If I can satisfy you that the fuel consumption of this car is no greater than that of the Vauxhall Cavalier , would you buy it ? ’
2 If I can pass this under her belly and get it fastened , ’ he said , ‘ pull with all your might , and use the horses as well . ’
3 Er if I can pass that round .
4 Now if I can pass on and ask Mr from North Yorkshire , who first of all is going to give you an introduction which in effect which effectively will set the context of alteration number three .
5 And if I can walk to work , you can walk to school . ’
6 But if I can leave it running and it runs out it will suit me down to the ground .
7 Well I , well I , I mean I 've had to do my homework , before I come on this meeting for you , and I , and if I can start at the back and work forwards we have got enough money .
8 So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility .
9 I 'm more than willing to carve my own career — I 'm raring to go , at least I shall be if I get my degree and if I can shake off this horrible mononucleosis , as Dr Newne pompously insists on calling it !
10 What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime .
11 ‘ I wonder if I can send Dick my love and wish him a speedy recovery through Guitarist … ? ’ asked Clem .
12 I think I could probably send a return on Tuesday erm but I 'd rather wait because if I can send stuff properly done rather than you know done to the latest or or the the pre-latest system then I will .
13 Up till now you always had to bid er , for issues arising from changes of growth in the population , and that particularly begins to pick up the issue about the aging population in the county , so if I can welcome that .
14 ‘ I think I ought to take you to the farmhouse to be seen to — that iss , if I can carry you . ’
15 I do n't know if I can carry on now .
16 You want to try and flick that , see if I can knock that little , one of those brass pigs , flick it and see if I knock it across the table , I 'll take my own finger off , the pig 'll hardly move .
17 And er on your , on the better shoe , like you what we call , might call a Sunday shoe , you 'd have a a rubber heel put on , I do n't mean just a a complete heel but a round disc that was screwed on to your heel , if I can explain that to you .
18 If I can explain inflation which included in the budget at this stage is inflation between November ninety two and November ninety three , so inflation from today if you like er or last November , through to the end of the year , that is provided for in the central contingency of the authority and as pay awards are awarded the money we drawn down from that into the planning committee so the amount there would one point five percent of pay and four point two percent from general commission , that 's reflecting inflation that 's already happening and is up last year 's budget to the position today if you like so one point five percent of pay was the A P T C award for July ninety two , sorry ninety three and we 're not anticipating here what the pay award will be for the coming year , that is dealt with centrally .
19 If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen .
20 And if not I 'll see if I can think of an excuse to try and contact her myself . ’
21 We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm .
22 Now let me think if I can think what it was .
23 I 'll change if I can think of anything else to do , but I ca n't .
24 Lee said to me , ‘ If I can beat Sanders , I 'll win the Open .
25 Secondly , Joe Kendal has written from Otley , West Yorkshire , to ask if I can clarify some of the thinking behind the design of this circuit .
26 If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable .
27 If I can clarify two things there first of all .
28 If I can clarify a few points .
29 Well , I think if I can clarify small print .
30 But she do n't ask me where nothing is , she just asks me if I can spare lOp .
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