Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If yours has disappeared , and you now have to travel several miles to draw cash , pay in cheques or settle bills , it 's worth thinking about switching to Girobank . |
2 | It seems that I pay an extremely small price for a program from the supplier , and that I also have to pay the author if I wish to use it . |
3 | If I wish to maximise my impact on improving human life , I can do so best by putting my effort into activities I know are unlikely to take place otherwise and into small-scale ventures where I can actually see results for my efforts . |
4 | But if I wish to enjoy myself dabbling in cooking or in playing the stock exchange then I should try and form my own judgment . |
5 | Can I extend my covenant , if I wish to continue making payments over a longer period ? |
6 | I will inform the bank in writing if I wish to cancel this Instruction . |
7 | I will inform the bank in writing if I wish to cancel this instruction , and I understand that if any direct debit which breaks the terms of this instruction , the bank will make a refund . |
8 | Q. What happens if I wish to stop paying premiums ? |
9 | Thus the doctor who tells me to take a drug , if I wish to recover from a sickness , is expressing a hypothetical imperative . |
10 | What if I wish to give small amounts regularly over a period ? |
11 | What if I wish to give a sum of capital or a sum in excess of my annual taxable income ? |
12 | If I wish to buy a manufactured object from a shopkeeper , the shopkeeper must first obtain it from a wholesaler , the wholesaler must then in turn obtain it from the manufacturer , who must in turn obtain components and raw materials from other suppliers further down the line . |
13 | At Martin Brundle 's lunch in London I discovered that Maurice Hamilton had been the Mastermind question-setter and he reported that if I thought answering them was hard , he had found setting them a good deal harder . |
14 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
15 | ‘ She said she 'd come and see me after she 'd finished clinic , at around five , but I should call her again if I began contracting . |
16 | I am just an ordinary Daleswoman and if I began to think or act otherwise I know a few people around here who would soon bring me to my senses . |
17 | Instead of stopping , I ran even more , promising myself that if I began to feel ill , I would heed the warning . |
18 | ‘ It was a bank holiday and I knew there would be few buses and even fewer taxis in Harley Street if I felt threatened . ’ |
19 | If I felt compelled to hold that the taxpayer in this case could not recover I would share the no little regret expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle . |
20 | And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter . |
21 | ‘ But would n't it be better if I came to see her , just to meet her , so that she knows who you 're with ? ’ |
22 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
23 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
24 | The trouble was I chose the wrong product if I hoped to make myself a fortune . |
25 | ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us . |
26 | It was a test , I decided , with one hell of a reward if I managed to pass . |
27 | Diverts , if I wrote divert up here you might use it against me in later life . |
28 | It may however be helpful madam speaker , er Madam Deputy Speaker , if I seek to clarify er when an individual auditor is operating in his capacity as such and whether a partner in an auditing practice who is not involved in audin er in auditing the regulated institutions is deemed nevertheless to be operating in his capacity as auditor . |
29 | A hypothetical imperative tells me that , as a rational being , I must do such and such if I desire to obtain a certain upshot , because it is the essential means to that upshot , and he who wills the end must will the means . |
30 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |