Example sentences of "if i can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I can not stop this , my solicitor will help me gain compensation . ’ |
| 2 | How an I going to take any wickets at all if I can not float my deceptively slow left-armers out of the darkness of the trees at seven o'clock on a late September evening ? |
| 3 | ‘ I will speak to him , ’ he said to her when they had got out of earshot , ‘ and see if I can not resolve this matter . ’ |
| 4 | Charles 's following ( populus ) then swore " in its own language , the lingua romana " : " If Louis keeps the oath which he swears to his brother Charles , and my lord Charles for his part does not keep his , if I can not make him refrain [ from that action ] , then neither I nor any other whom I can make refrain will give him any aid against Louis " . |
| 5 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ At least I have given you your past even if I can not give you your future . |
| 7 | I am sorry if I can not fulfil your request on this point . |
| 8 | If I can not go to my own home , let me have a home in some country where my people will not die so fast . |
| 9 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Moreton , Sally is an old friend of mine and if I can not speak to her I would like to leave a message . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I find life so boring if I can not enjoy a drink , ’ he said . |
| 12 | If I can not come out soon — much of me will die , and only I will know enough to mourn its passing . |
| 13 | And if I can not rid myself of it I will just have to go into the service and begin to root out the cause . |
| 14 | If I can not persuade her to keep you on , I promise I shall arrange matters for you in some other way . ’ |
| 15 | It is pretty disgraceful if I can not put to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East the points which have been the centre of debate in this country for the past 10 days , but I shall do so . |
| 16 | As he explains : ‘ If I can successfully transfer what I believe to be management skills applicable to any discipline , then I would hope to follow a career path that will ultimately lead to directorship within an operations environment . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm just thinking in terms of if if I can just finish . |
| 18 | However , if I can just shift these mirrors right ah , done it ! |
| 19 | Erm it I think it is , because I think we 're in a , we 're in a dip , if I can just go off the the , the idea of conventional investments at the moment . |
| 20 | Okay so if I can just go through what I 've just talked with , with you about . |
| 21 | But if I can just go back to where we were talking earlier erm and I asked you about anybody that you may be able to refer me on |
| 22 | Right if I can just go back to erm I 've lost my place now |
| 23 | Yes , if I can just interject something here which I think is rather striking , when one used to go on holiday on the Continent , going to church was at the same time a bewildering an exciting experience because you could n't understand what was going on . |
| 24 | If I can just reach the horses , thought Floy , moving stealthily forwards . |
| 25 | If I can just reach the horses and reach up and untether them , I believe we could be off and down the road and the creature would never catch up with us . |
| 26 | Erm when you see erm Alan John erm if you see them over the next day or two if I can just give you this er these , these little leaflets |
| 27 | Right , if I can just give this shirt to you , Annette . |
| 28 | But if I can just reiterate the criteria . |
| 29 | I if I can just remind participants of what we said in our original objection , that further justification will be required to demonstrate that the level of detail proposed in the deposited policy H two is not incompatible with P P G three and does not involve over detailed or unduly restrictive policy guidance . |
| 30 | Now if I can just refer as I did in my earlier submission to the possible results of that , I suggested that the requirement for the new settlement to be located beyond the outer boundary of the green er York greenbelt , should be rolled into criterion one , the need to avoid the greenbelt . |