Example sentences of "if [pron] [modal v] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ROS : A compulsion towards philosophical introspection is his chief characteristic , if I may put it like that . |
2 | So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility . |
3 | Well , if I can check it on the plan , it 's , the plan actually shows half the site , there 's the central slide way way coming down through the development site , all that occupies , all one side of the slide way . |
4 | I have been sent to ask you whether , if I can arrange it with the captain , you would consent to look after them . |
5 | Let's see if I can do it for you . |
6 | If I can cut it without cutting me hand off . |
7 | ‘ This heavy-duty polythene should do the trick if I can wedge it across the gaps . ’ |
8 | ‘ Poor Bernard , I must see if I can sew it for him . |
9 | Secondly , I get another dollop of money , if I can put it like this , for Home Care right across the county . |
10 | We both argued that the levels of er housing development in Craven , Harrogate and to a lesser extent perhaps Amblet Hambleton should not be constrained , so as to reduce erm the the steady trickle if I can describe it as that of migration from the West Yorkshire conurbation to those areas , in perhaps er l looking at the different proposal for the new settlement which might be located in the Leeds York corridor . |
11 | but you , I do n't know which we , you just have to say next time you see her oh which reading test do you use and you can work out , how , what , you know , I 've got a reading test somewhere I 'll see if I can find it for you , just show you |
12 | But if I can get it to Andernesse somehow , she thought , then surely it 'll be safe and everything will stop … ’ |
13 | Nine hundred and sixty seven words that takes about five or six minutes to read it if I can read it in this light . |
14 | It just depends where we 're going cos I do n't know what we 're doing yet So I 'd and the woman 's coming round tonight so I 'll just , sort of , say to her if I can keep it over the weekend I can do a lot more so otherwise I 'll feel a bit bad |
15 | But erm and essentially , the difference is this , if I can illustrate it by means of reference to appendix four in er N Y two of o o of North Yorkshire . |
16 | I 'd probably pull him out if I could do it without too much danger to myself . ’ |
17 | ‘ To get my 150th would be another landmark and it would be nice if I could do it in the Premier League . ’ |
18 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
19 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
20 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
21 | When a pump action toothpaste tube became empty in my bathroom , I decided to take it apart to see if I could put it to further use . |
22 | And I rang them and see if I could cancel it for the Monday and he only , the doctor does n't sit on the Monday , so I 've got |
23 | Oh that 's erm ah yes , I should try to use the calculator if I could find it on the machine ! |
24 | Doubted if I could find it in the undergrowth . |
25 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
26 | When Scholes writes that ‘ no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study ’ , I am reminded of C. S. Lewis 's argument that any piece of writing has a claim to being literary if someone can read it in a ‘ literary ’ — i.e. an absorbed , attentive , loving — fashion . |
27 | very lucky if she 'll give it to you . |
28 | She picked a saucepan off the cooker and raised it high , as if she might fling it across the kitchen like a hatchet . |
29 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
30 | I said that if she would leave it with the bill at her hall-porter 's desk , she could trust me to take it and leave the money without attempting to see her . |