Example sentences of "if i [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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1 | It would serve you out if I chose to use the letter in an action against you for breach of promise ! ’ |
2 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
3 | If I wished to raise the level it would be a simple matter of raising the lip on the top header pool where the water runs into the bottom header . |
4 | A couple of weeks after my appointment to the Arts Council , a letter arrived from Downing Street asking if I wished to accept the honour of a peerage . |
5 | Even if I fight to improve the school ( the battle began two years ago but victory is nowhere on the horizon ) my child is a child for 10 years more . |
6 | Batty said : ‘ If I had to miss the game , I know we still have a squad strong enough to beat Rangers . ’ |
7 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
8 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
9 | If I had to describe the contents of Zettel as the answer to one question I think the question would have to be : What is the relevance , for our understanding of ‘ psychological ’ concepts such as understanding , thinking , expecting , intending , imagining , seeing , dreaming , knowing , believing , doubting , pretending , remembering , and feeling , of that account of meaning which distinguishes the later from the earlier writings of Wittgenstein ? |
10 | Not even if I had to block the Valve for a week … |
11 | If I had to replace the lock myself it just would n't get done . ’ |
12 | I suppose if I had to make the choice , I would sacrifice skiing for the sake of the hills . |
13 | If I had to list the assets I was born with she would have to come top . |
14 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
15 | For the moment my boat was staying on Straker 's Cay , and she would only pass into the senator 's care if I agreed to extend the trial two weeks , cruise-cure into a full summer 's excursion . |
16 | If I try to enter the same thing , it does n't work . |
17 | Even if I try to change the tone of my voice . |
18 | I was ruled out of order , I erm I there were point out then that twenty five new councillors and I understand it was n't legitimate if I wanted to restrict the vote only to those twenty five so that the rest of you would actually realise that this has gone on far too long , I only put that as a I think it is very , very important erm that we break new ground . |
19 | If I wanted to squander the money in six months or a year , I could do that too , but if I did he would haunt me . ’ |
20 | If I wanted to sue the immigration people I would . |
21 | But on , on my other remote control if I wanted to alter the sound or the colour , that was on the erm remote control and it 's just a little |
22 | I 'm essentially a social historian , although I sometimes think that if I wanted to find the right adjective , and I 've never been too much worried about adjectives , I would say I 'm really a cultural historian . |
23 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
24 | If I wanted to get the highest allocation to units would I pay level or escalating premiums by looking at that table ? |
25 | I went out and slammed the door behind me , turning the key in the lock as if I wanted to safeguard the proof of the crime and its only witnesses , repeating the same English phrase , over and over again , ‘ Just you wait and see . ’ |
26 | If I wanted to check the football results I had to go across the road to read Mrs Stewart 's Sunday Pictorial . |
27 | Nigel asked me if I wanted to stay the weekend . |
28 | Could you please remind me about what to do if I forget to take the pill at the right time ? |
29 | ‘ You mean , if I agree to play the gaoler . |
30 | It 's bad enough having to take out a loan to get married , I sometimes wonder if I need to do the same as a bridesmaid ! |