Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] if i could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 2 | Er I might see if I could pick up that Sheffield United guy Jamie Hoyland . |
| 3 | Oh I 'll see if I could get ideas . |
| 4 | out the window , she was trying to say oh I really want to go home this weekend , do you think you could ask if I could have one of your exeats and she 's still got one left ! |
| 5 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 6 | He had a spare ticket for the Leeds end which I said I would take if I could get past the ‘ security ’ outside the Leeds end . |