Example sentences of "[vb past] if [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton . |
| 32 | Haines asked if I would ring up Max Aitken — whom he knew to be a very good friend — to ask him to dissuade his editor from publishing the story , which had until then been kept as a dark secret . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him . |
| 35 | She told me she was pregnant and asked if I would baptise the baby . |
| 36 | She told me she was pregnant and asked if I would baptise the baby . |
| 37 | The telephone rang , and a voice asked if I would help the local Brownie Pack with a ‘ Challenge ’ using my knowledge of Medau Rhythmic Movement under the overall heading of Keep Fit . |
| 38 | A nice government official helping to run the camp asked if I would mind staying until all the old and sick and pregnant women were flown out , and of course we were only too pleased to stay . |
| 39 | ‘ A few of them actually ASKED if I would mind having the clothes ripped off my back . |
| 40 | On 26 April I was summoned by Mr Baker to his office at the Department of Education and Science , and asked if I would chair a Working Group to prepare proposals for English in the National Curriculum . |
| 41 | Then she asked if I would knit some for other mothers , so I agreed to her putting my name on her notice board . |
| 42 | He asked if I would say that ‘ on the record ’ . |
| 43 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 44 | When I was in a fit state she asked if I would like to talk to her . |
| 45 | One of them asked if I would like some beetroot . |
| 46 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 47 | I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday . |
| 48 | They asked if I would like to be gallery secretary . |
| 49 | Jack called Sandra and asked if she would appear in a Corman film that weekend . |
| 50 | Then , last summer , Claudia our Italian friend stayed with us and Jeane asked if she would like to come to the Community Church . |
| 51 | He hesitated a minute and then asked if she would like him to examine her . |
| 52 | Sue said a lorry from the area would be going to Brasov and without stopping to think , Christine asked if she would like to take some wool . |
| 53 | Only later , much later , when Penman knocked and asked if she would like tea , did it strike her that she had no idea why Michael Swinton had really called . |
| 54 | Before I left , I asked if she would come to see me one day . |
| 55 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |
| 56 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
| 57 | But he thinks he 's the centre of the world and he was going to make it difficult for Angie to do what she wanted if it would affect his career . |
| 58 | He had changed into a clean white shirt and tie , and his dark pants just fitted him , though Dorothy wondered if they would stand the strain of his sitting down . |
| 59 | Melanie wondered if they would go to church , to Midnight Mass , because she , in a muddled way , thought they must be religious if they believed so firmly in Hell . |
| 60 | I wondered if they would go in there . |