Example sentences of "[adv] if [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germaine Meyer was wearing a sky-blue blouse that summer afternoon and Modigliani was immediately arrested by her colouring , a blend of rose and white , and asked her eagerly if he could paint her . |
| 2 | Perhaps if we may . |
| 3 | Well perhaps if we will , we were n't to , if we went next week , we 'd have two weeks earlier than last year wo n't we ? |
| 4 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 5 | Perhaps if we can arrive at some sort of specific amounts or some research in that direction , we might Mr Chairman , be able to take representations to government in a more positive way . |
| 6 | perhaps if we can quickly , I mean I do n't want a lot out of Tesco 's , it will just save turning out , I do n't mind turning out this afternoon but , if the traffic |
| 7 | I think it was fifty , I do , but I 'm not sure oh perhaps if we can get over there at the end of the , well it 's the end of the month next week anyway in n it ? |
| 8 | Right , I hope , we wo n't be to long now , perhaps if we could just bring up the item you wanted to mention . |
| 9 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 10 | Perhaps if we could find out more about where they came from , we might be able to say why they came . |
| 11 | And er I think perhaps if we could put a c are are we allowed to put round the table some |
| 12 | Perhaps if you would like to go round the |
| 13 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps if you could learn a little tolerance . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps if you could be so good as to slip the jacket off , Major , we might complete the hanging of the trousers ? ’ |
| 16 | " Perhaps if you could be more specific … " he suggested . |
| 17 | But you will be receiving notification of the said meeting taking place and my colleague from Northern Irela Wales Northern Ireland , perhaps if you could have a chat with me in the corridor , I may be able to do something which can help you alleviate the sa situation between us . |
| 18 | But er yeah , it 's , it 's I find it loses er , a little bit of interest fairly quickly erm because it 's , the main subject , the chap jumping down , I think the road was nicely shown , but perhaps if you could have just had a , a longer lens just to make it a bit more important in the picture . |
| 19 | I think perhaps if you could have arranged her so that er this foot somehow was resting down here , well it might have been better . |
| 20 | And perhaps if you could stop the snow and see us all safely back to the quarry as well , that would be a big help . |
| 21 | First of all , perhaps if you could all let everybody else know what we 're talking about , what your particular skill is . |
| 22 | So then perhaps if you 'd like to take a look at the video in that , in the meantime |
| 23 | Perhaps if you 'd do that , Nurse Elmore , and Nurse Avery can get the four-hourly observations done before visitors . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm particularly concerned perhaps if I may ask her to show some concern for this herself that the remoteness of the newspaper library , way up in the rustic further regions of the Northern Line , the great virtue of the existing site is that 's on the Inner Circle , the accessibility of this site is really its greatest virtue . |
| 25 | Perhaps if I could remember them the whole mystery would be solved . |
| 26 | Perhaps if I could deal with Mr 's point first though cos I 'll just refer you I think to paragraph three point two , three year accident record there , fifty five injuries , seventy one casualties , many of them taking place on the distributor road network . |
| 27 | committee did draw distinction between the two different kinds of schemes , erm perhaps if I could just ask you what do you think of the committee the Good reports er conclusion on training for trustees where they er the recommendation was that it was a laudable objective , but should not be made compulsory ? |
| 28 | And perhaps if I can understand it more , then |
| 29 | Perhaps if she could speak to Mahoney again , tell him what happened out by Mountpelier that morning , he would tell her more . |
| 30 | Perhaps if he might ride — under escort , of course ! ’ |