Example sentences of "if i [verb] [prep] " 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 | I placed it in that part of the room where we need the light , with something which , if I believed in it , I would call instinct . |
4 | If I believed in anything , I 'd say it was part of a divine plan . ’ |
5 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
6 | And why I should thank God , if I believed in God , that I have no German blood . ’ |
7 | and if you , if I make in steel and then can drive in and fit your pin |
8 | My former wife disliked not only the taste of it herself but refused to come near me if I succumbed to its temptation . ’ |
9 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
10 | Well I suppose if I thought about it I could er put Amy in the hall and go and do some . |
11 | Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was |
12 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
13 | If I stuck with the basic training and did well I too could be one of them . |
14 | I mean well if I remember in Harlow er , we we i i in in nineteen seventy eight we had twenty thousand er , social er , council housing and about nine thousand owner occupiers the situation , that ratio 's been reversed where we , where i by the end of the century we practically have about three thousand social social housing and about twenty two thousand er er , owner occupiers ! |
15 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
16 | No , what I meant , is if saying that if I camped onto that number over there 3414 , and if that phone becomes free , this phone starts ringing and I might be doing something , so by the time I 've picked it up to make that connection , suppose 3414 is then making another outgoing call , do I have to camp on yet again to 3414 ? |
17 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
18 | And I recommend to anybody who goes on the school , I 'm sure they do on the training course , that the first opportunity I would have to address erm the con er the staff meeting , you just say this is what I who I am this is why I 'm here I 've got a list of businesses which the school has provided with me already but I I will I may erm if I bump into you in the corridor I may just say do you know anybody else . |
19 | ‘ as if I meant to ! |
20 | I would go home for weekends , if I felt like it , and during the holidays . |
21 | The hostess rang and asked tactfully and hesitantly if I felt like it . |
22 | If I land on something where I need some money . |
23 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
24 | If I disappear to the Bahamas for a holiday . |
25 | A married 32-year-old store manager says : ‘ If I chanced upon an encounter , I think that maybe a couple of years ago , I would n't have worn one . |
26 | Now what if I support in the main the aims of the Act , there are one or two areas I think that some things are not a good idea . |
27 | S maybe if I says to him away you go to your granny 's and then and you 're not taking anything with you . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 |
30 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |