Example sentences of "[to-vb] if [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feedback is easier to accept if you can do something constructive once you have got it ; if you know how to develop yourself , you are more likely to welcome feedback when it is offered and also more likely to solicit it actively . |
| 2 | He suspects alcohol abuse and wants to know if we would consider counselling . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He wants to know if we 'd like to ? ’ |
| 4 | We have an idea and we want to know if it will work . |
| 5 | I own an ex-Irish army Series III 1972 Land Rover , I 've recently fitted a Range Rover V8 instead of the 2,25 and would like to know if I can put a transfer box on to a 5-speed SD1 gear box . |
| 6 | And er after a time , they wanted to know if I 'd take complete charge and I said well yes I said , but what are the men gon na think ? |
| 7 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 8 | Wanted to know if I could remember whether Mr Meredith went off riding on the day Anna was attacked . ’ |
| 9 | I had to know if I could put life into it . |
| 10 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 11 | After you have studied these papers , I would be pleased to know if you could appear at the public inquiry to present evidence in support of the Regional Council 's case and , in particular , on the supply and demand for office floor space in the Edinburgh area , and the poor marketability of Millerhill as a location for major office and class 4 business development . |
| 12 | body of people to try and reduce the rent they were paying erm but it , it 's er , it 's initially a difficult situation that we have said yes we do n't mind you erm we do n't mind granting you that , but we want to know if you will accept an assignment of the lease from the previous company cos |
| 13 | I have been quoted coots ranging from £2,000 to £5,000 and I would like to know if you can give me any advice on which of the more common Ford , BMC , Perkins diesel engines can be obtained from scrappers , reconditioned and fitted . |
| 14 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 15 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 16 | ‘ Squish broke his ankle in Klosters and is being invalided home and Trouncy wants to know if she can bring Jean-Pierre , their French exchange . |
| 17 | Mrs Mitchell wants to know if she can increase or decrease the width of the pattern , in order to get complete repeats of the pattern on a sweater that is a different size to the one she used her 23-stitch repeat for . |
| 18 | Apparently her parents think she 's staying with wanted to know if she could send them our phone number and say she was staying here . |
| 19 | The thinking behind the wolf plan was to discover if they could regulate the deer numbers and live in harmony with the rest of the island 's wildlife . |
| 20 | ‘ It will be a great score in years to come if we can go ahead and lift the Sam Maguire , but if we lose it will count for nothing . ’ |
| 21 | This was where I began to wonder if we would succeed with our mission . |
| 22 | When the yard closed we began to wonder if we could use the Worm in some way , and when Sakata opened we began to realize how . |
| 23 | It was uncomfortable enough , knowing she would have to face him , but it was worse not to know when , to wonder if she would turn around suddenly and find him watching her with those cold , cold eyes … |
| 24 | She was beginning to wonder if she 'd misread it — got the time all wrong . |
| 25 | Otherwise defender Darren Wassall may begin to wonder if he might make more money by doing something else at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 26 | Coffin was already beginning to wonder if he could fit a face to the type of killer he had imagined . |
| 27 | Joe began to wonder if he should go to the police . |
| 28 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd begun to wonder if anything would work — it was beginning to take over my life . |
| 30 | The process of drawing inferences from non-experimental data is usually one of slowly elaborating a relationship between two variables , testing that it contains no spurious component due to the operation of a prior variable , and testing to see if one can pin down whether the cause influences the effect directly or through an intervening variable . |