Example sentences of "if we could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 2 | Wendy and I had decided that we did not want to remain in Wolverton , if we could go to one of the more interesting towns nearby . |
| 3 | Well what I 'd quite like to do is if we could go back over |
| 4 | I know Steve asked if we could go back to Thursdays cos he ca n't make a Wednesday night . |
| 5 | If our tea and lunch breaks could be structured on the lines of the ancient Egyptians I am sure that by 10.30am each day there would be a smile on the face of each and every member of staff ; and if we could ensure that all our members were treated by their employers in the same way , our membership figures would double instantly . |
| 6 | ‘ Life might be more exciting , if we could create paper ’ , says finance director Dale , ‘ but look at our results . |
| 7 | ‘ It would undoubtedly be desirable , ’ wrote the Comte de Saint-Germain , perhaps the greatest French war minister of the century , ‘ if we could create an army of dependable and specially-selected men of the best type . |
| 8 | If we could meet this brother at least . ’ |
| 9 | Once we have finalised our response to the Welsh Office , I think it would be very useful if we could meet you to explore shared interests and clarify how best we can work together on this issue . |
| 10 | She asked if we could meet . |
| 11 | There can be no serious defensible pedigrees here ( even if we could decide what characteristics had to be inherited to ensure pure descent ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd prefer if we could decide today . |
| 13 | ( For if we could achieve the desired reductive consequences by framing an innocent person , and if these effects are all that is needed to justify punishment , what is wrong with punishing the innocent ? ) |
| 14 | It would be great if we could achieve that level of non-smoking among school and college students . |
| 15 | At the moment my preferred delivery date is Monday 24 May , and I wonder if we could collect the items from you — or have them delivered to us — at around 9.15 that morning . |
| 16 | So if we could collect it all up together and when we are going down we could take the whole lot down out of the way . |
| 17 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 18 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 19 | I should now like to take a look at your suitability for this particular job , ’ or ‘ If we could move on from your qualifications I 'd like you to tell me a little more about your personal interests and hobbies ’ . |
| 20 | It would be healthy for public services and for dole queues if we could move away from national wage bargaining in a variety of areas . |
| 21 | If we could move to Paper E. Item six , Joint Staffing Watch . |
| 22 | Thanks , that 's Paper G. If we could move on to Paper H. Trade Union Recognition . |
| 23 | I wonder if we could move now move over to the first which is on er the first main resolution of which amendment to the other resolution . |
| 24 | If we could hoist the Delos to the surface we might well find out . ’ |
| 25 | This provided us with an opportunity to investigate the whales to see if we could discover anything about them that might explain why they had beached themselves . |
| 26 | Mr Milligan is , of course a friend of , and hero to , his fellow depressive , the Prince of Wales who — as if we could forget — used to imitate the zany funster in revues whilst at Cambridge University . |
| 27 | Angus Crichton-Miller , managing director of the Rank Organisation 's holidays and hotels division and a member of the study group said : ‘ It is not an efficient system to have such changes between busy and quiet periods and it would be better if we could flatten prices over a longer season , rather than have such high-peak-season prices . ’ |
| 28 | Though I could probably find what I need on a skip if we could borrow the car again . |
| 29 | ‘ I was thinking if we could stop his cows from getting out of a field or save his hayricks when they were on fire , ’ said Heather , who loved reading stories and was always having make-believe adventures , with herself as the heroine . |
| 30 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |