Example sentences of "[noun sg] if you could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would help my concentration if you could stop tapping that blasted pencil . ’ |
| 2 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
| 3 | It would do us far more honour if you could succeed in obtaining a post under some other great lord . |
| 4 | ‘ Games teachers would say , ‘ There 's a meeting at such and such a place on Wednesday afternoon ; would you ask your teacher if you could miss your lessons ? ’ |
| 5 | You would get a different sort of feel again by installing a big armoire or bureau bookcase if you could afford one or the other . |
| 6 | One mark if you could tell me who , who , what , who they were . |
| 7 | If you could turn to page if you could turn to page nine I think it is . |
| 8 | It would be a miracle if you could have a clear picture of the total future ( in fact if you could do that for yourself or anyone else you could probably make lots of money as a clairvoyant ) . |
| 9 | Because it 's no good saying you 're interested and then going to ask your mother or father if you could talk a violin home and they said no I do n't want you practising at home I do n't like the sound of it or whatever . |
| 10 | by the divisional court and er it was a case where the divisional court er had to er consider what it should do in the interim , the Lord Justice er in the divisional court judgement deals with the interim position at er page twenty five of the transcript , starting at letter F and er going through to er page twenty eight paragraph B and I think it might help my Lord if you could read that passage in the justice latest judgment . |
| 11 | I should therefore esteem it a favour if you could speak to your friends along the lines I have indicated . |
| 12 | Dear Newsagent , I would be Judith-Chalmers-ly indebted to your good suntan if you could find it in your deckchair to reserve me my very own monthly copy of that phew-missus-it's-a-scorcher gamesplaying bible , ZZAP ! 64 , starting with the July issue , on sale Thursday 25 June . |
| 13 | if you would n't mind in the meantime if you could think of a few names you know as you 're going about your daily business . |
| 14 | Apart from changing your diet , it would be a great idea if you could grant yourself a little more importance , and make sure you avoid getting overtired or missing meals , when at all possible . |
| 15 | That 's why it would be good idea if you could man the |
| 16 | erm Peter wants to tighten up on on on the business of erm carrying holidays over and I think he 's right , actually , erm and he also is using this opportunity to try to et us to plan our holidays as a group so that we 're not all off at the same time , or if it 's appropriate we should all be off a the same time then we 're off at the same time , but it 's erm common sense should prevail one way or another , but it would be a good idea if you could let me have erm a brief indication of any major times you plan to be away . |
| 17 | It would be a miracle if you could have a clear picture of the total future ( in fact if you could do that for yourself or anyone else you could probably make lots of money as a clairvoyant ) . |