Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [modal v] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually I did this by writing to people asking if I might come and see them to find out how they were getting on . |
| 2 | ‘ If I may come straight to the point , sir . |
| 3 | If I may come tomorrow ? ’ |
| 4 | If I may come back Mr Chairman an and er express a view on behalf of Darcy . |
| 5 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 6 | Gramps asked me if I would come and return them , together with the statue , because he thought your mother would like to have them , and so I did ! |
| 7 | I 'll 'ave one o ’ them when I go to work and do n't forget to ask 'er if I can come again . |
| 8 | Well both are awkward , I said , but I will stand a light spanking if I can come home with you after . |
| 9 | If I can come to you Andrew , you were in the Royal Highland Fl Fusiliers , what |
| 10 | ‘ If I can come up with the names then I will take that to the chairman or whoever is in charge to try and get the backing I need to sign them . ’ |
| 11 | So in other words then just to , just to summarize erm if I can come or if I can come up with er a recommendation to provide that sort of cover within that er price range erm then erm is there , is there any reason why when I do that er next time that you could n't , come back with an appointment next week , that you could n't er proceed ? |
| 12 | So in other words then just to , just to summarize erm if I can come or if I can come up with er a recommendation to provide that sort of cover within that er price range erm then erm is there , is there any reason why when I do that er next time that you could n't , come back with an appointment next week , that you could n't er proceed ? |
| 13 | Well all I can say is , you 'll probably get yourself there see if I can come along . |
| 14 | If I can come in on Saturday rather than Sunday . |
| 15 | erm if people are restored to confidence , feel that they are able to travel , that of course reduces the number of people who are going to stay in this country and have their holidays here , and Stan , if I can come back to you , I mean we it is almost arguing against the point that you were making a few moments ago that , you know , you want people to stay in this country . |
| 16 | okay , so Rupert , if I can come back to you , I mean do you think then that we 're doing enough to , to make these improvements ? |
| 17 | ‘ A few days after the funeral , ’ I said , ‘ Karen phoned to ask if I 'd come over and help her dispose of some of Dennis 's effects . |
| 18 | As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world |
| 19 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that if I 'd come to you you would n't have sent me away with a flea in my ear ? ’ |
| 21 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 22 | My dad said he 'd buy me a ticket to fly back to England and David said that he 'd pay him back because he 'd be very happy if I could come back and help him as he did n't really know how to deal with his mother 's grief . |
| 23 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 24 | One day she rang me to ask if I could come along on Saturday and help plant potatoes in the back yard ; ‘ Uncle John is far too busy at this time of the year ’ . |
| 25 | I sent him a letter asking if I could come and talk to him . |
| 26 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 27 | On one occasion I screwed up my courage to ask if I could come in at 9 p.m. instead , at which Harold looked puzzled and asked why . |
| 28 | I wondered if I could come over and see your h — see him some time ? ’ |
| 29 | He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’ |
| 30 | Now My Lords I realise that some of your Lordships say well that 's not gon na happen , but if if I could come to one other point My Lords , where I think there is fairly , fairly universal a agreement and that is on the whole smaller organisations work better and if you have a police authority for instance of thirty or forty people , that 's not a very handy body of people to work with and if it 's smaller it is better . |