Example sentences of "if we [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came across this seed in Cumbria and said : ‘ I wonder if we ought to invest in a bit ? ’ . |
| 2 | I do n't know if we ought to put a timetable on that , on what 's going on , on this erm , eco-management erm , business , but also , I was wondering , could we not ask for a report to the March or April meeting of this committee , on what actions we could take to make progress on the recommendations of the district auditor in paragraph forty-four . |
| 3 | I was wondering if we ought to find out who 's decided to start using it again , and whether they really checked , I have been told they check on the source , but it 's like we 're slipping back gradually , and I thought if we said , if we pledged that we 're going to boycott timber , we should really keep to it unless we make a decision |
| 4 | Portsmouth director Martin Gregory , whose club have a chance of reaching the semi-finals , insisted : ‘ I doubt if we would vote for it to continue . |
| 5 | If we would give him half an hour to get over the shock of his resurrection he would quietly sit down with a piece of paper ( the back of a bigger envelope , I suppose ) and would work out the relevant design formulae . |
| 6 | Erm and I think the tenants ' group came to us and , and asked us if we would set up an advice session for tenants moving out , which could be situated in the flats , and could be run on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Right erm er presentation to the schools and then we need to consider if we would want to invite . |
| 8 | We did wonder if we would manage to find the place but we located it one wet Sunday afternoon . |
| 9 | This was where I began to wonder if we would succeed with our mission . |
| 10 | Hafpor tried hard , but eventually admitted defeat and asked us if we would walk a little . |
| 11 | Hartmut , a friend from Trinity College , Bristol , a gifted personal evangelist and now a curate , was ringing to see if we would go and work with him in a small commuter suburb of Upminster in Essex . |
| 12 | Why , did they say they they would go if we would go ? |
| 13 | ‘ It was not as much a question of whether we would take a new step in our computerisation , but if we would subcontract it out , ’ said Olivier and Xavier Decelle , Picard 's president and managing director , respectively , in an article in Les Echos . |
| 14 | ‘ We may have only won 1–0 , but it never looked as if we would lose . |
| 15 | He suspects alcohol abuse and wants to know if we would consider counselling . ’ |
| 16 | And then if we would find totally unacceptable we certainly would n't be prepared to do that |
| 17 | She asks us if we would agree that Julia Roberts is the most stunning thing we 've ever seen , and we have to admit that Julia 's extraordinarily wide mouth and upturned nose always remind us of someone with their face pressed against a plate-glass window . |
| 18 | Suddenly Odd-Knut gets up and asks if we would like to go dog sledging . |
| 19 | Anyway , to cut a long story short , she wondered if we would like to take payment in part with one or two garments . |
| 20 | ‘ He asked me if we would like to license these compounds because they were keen to develop them , ’ Vlitos says . |
| 21 | We have another in erm on Thompson 's Directory , we said we were asked if we would like a mention there , and that has been put in hand , with at the moment the Chairman 's name and address and telephone number , but when we get our office I 've no doubt we can change that because we 'll have a rota for the office and probably just morning hours and that can go in another copy . |
| 22 | So if we would like further consultation apparently it was noted in view of the test carry out what we could do erm in fact the questionnaires have the response , I do share some of Mr 's er er worries that erm I think we ought to get out of the way and say to number one that this er . |
| 23 | so she asked us if we would like to do this |
| 24 | Then I did ask myself if we would see this place again ; and when Jaffa started to disappear to our starboard , I remember I said to myself : ‘ If this ship could turn round now , I would return to Jaffa . ’ |
| 25 | If we would come with him to the great hall , he would listen to all sides of the argument and then draw his conclusions . |
| 26 | We may ask if we would have different views on the interrelationships of modern craniates if we had no fossils . |
| 27 | It looked as if we would have to take him out but an older Asian boy came and took him away , and he went quite confidently . |
| 28 | If we would have faith only the size of a mustard seed , how our lives would be enhanced . |
| 29 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 30 | Yes , yes , we erm , we 're obviously in Japan and erm , and increasing the sales slowly there but it 's a very good market for us , very good advertisement market er , for us and er , I think I 've told you before , even before , before the recession , it started , it looked as if we would recoup the extra spending in the first year . |