Example sentences of "if i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , she is my duchess — and I shall invite her if I wish to ! |
| 2 | Q What do I do if I wish to be excused attendance at School ? |
| 3 | My former wife disliked not only the taste of it herself but refused to come near me if I succumbed to its temptation . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ as if I meant to ! |
| 5 | If I disappear to the Bahamas for a holiday . |
| 6 | S maybe if I says to him away you go to your granny 's and then and you 're not taking anything with you . |
| 7 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 8 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 9 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 10 | ‘ Does anyone mind if I go to bed ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If I go to Maui for the day , I 'm scared I might miss my chance . ’ |
| 12 | They have threatened to beat me up , if I go to the police . |
| 13 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 14 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
| 15 | However , when the Greek leaders , intent on humiliating Achilles , flatter Ajax with the prestigious combat with Hector , Ajax sees a heroic future beginning to form for himself , and slowly , ponderously , after several moments of silent thought , moves up to verse : ‘ If I go to him , with my armed fist/I 'll pash him o'er the face ’ ( II.iii.202f . ) . |
| 16 | ‘ If I go to the cinema I 'll have a panic attack and everyone will want to have me thrown out . ’ |
| 17 | I went to me doctor as well , but if I go to that doctor with a swollen ankle or somethin' , she gives me antibiotics , if it 's me back , it 's antibiotics , if it 's a cold , antibiotics . |
| 18 | I 'll not go without for no one , even if I go to prison for life . |
| 19 | If I go to the car , he 'll be waiting . |
| 20 | First I think that if I go to the car , he 'll be waiting , so I wo n't go to the car . |
| 21 | ‘ They 've been bringing their dogs to do their business in my front garden , and if I go to the council , d' you know what they 'll say ? |
| 22 | And even if I go to bed I ca n't sleep . |
| 23 | If I go to another dentist do you think it 's worth my while writing to D H S S , saying I 've paid forty five , forty pound ninety five pence , at that dentist and can I transfer the treatment to this other dentist |
| 24 | If I go to the market to buy a dozen eggs I pay the full price there and then . |
| 25 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
| 26 | Because , if I go to two different mathematicians and I say erm , can you work these sums for me ? |
| 27 | Generally and for the most part they 'll come up with the same sum at the end of the day and if I go to two different philosophers and say , erm can you tell me about free will ? |
| 28 | I 'm actually , I 'm quite high on as theorist as well and I like to write everything out in full and I clear structures and if I go to training sessions and they 're all over the place , it 's such a in about five minutes and I have to say hang on a minute it might not be structured in the way that you like it but you can actually learn from it . |
| 29 | ‘ If I go to church I feel that I go more to escape the chores than for any other reason ! ’ she said aloud . |
| 30 | Look , if the interrogation is over for tonight , do you mind if I go to sleep ? ’ |