Example sentences of "if they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He wrote notes , asking if they could meet but to no avail . |
| 3 | Once , the Harvard training officer allowed a dealer to visit a wealthy businessman who had expressed an interest in picking up Hard Rock Cafe shares , ( as he had contacts there ) but only if they could meet up . |
| 4 | The next morning , though , he found a message on his desk from Paul , asking if they could meet for a drink at lunchtime at the Club . |
| 5 | They wondered why they were asked if they could stand heights and naturally no one admitted to such a weakness so seven volunteers were picked to appear in Les Jambes de la Femme . |
| 6 | So when Grandad 's uncle , Richard Tallentire , asked if they could bring Mother up , they agreed to let her go . |
| 7 | But no one in Class 1 had seemed unduly disturbed by his account of them , even if the Husayn twins had said that pigs were ‘ boring ’ and had asked if they could bring in the novelization of Terminator Two . |
| 8 | As well , Faye had asked earlier if they could devote some time to foot care , which both knew was very important . |
| 9 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 10 | So he promised them if they could shift over 30 electronic flykillers on the phone he would take them to Alton Towers for the day . |
| 11 | The British did not want to act themselves if they could avoid it . |
| 12 | Twenty thousand rupees it would cost , but the extension worker said the government would pay for it if they could register a co-operative . |
| 13 | I asked the probation department if they could arrange a visit as it did n't look like anyone else was going to . |
| 14 | It still appeared deserted Their excitement was such that he doubted if they could stop now even if the gamekeeper did appear . |
| 15 | Burying her face in Luke 's chest to hide her blushes , Perdita asked him if he knew the Spanish for Super Tampax , and if they could stop for some on the way . |
| 16 | I would be happier if they could sign just one more quality defender especially if they could play equally well at right back and center half . |
| 17 | Someone shouted to him asking if they could step over to help . |
| 18 | EDWARD and Joyce Widdup , hailed nationally as principled fighters against the onward march of brick and cement , have lost their battle — four months after saying they were willing to sacrifice £2 million if they could continue to live in their green oasis on the outskirts of Bradford , West Yorks . |
| 19 | If they could lay hands on a second-hand boiler , did he know enough to fix it ? |
| 20 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
| 21 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |
| 22 | I did n't ask if they could tell the sex yet , because I do n't want to know . |
| 23 | LEE WEARS a shiny nylon jacket that 's on loan from the Sir Alf Ramsey estate , and cheesy sports pants that look as if they could walk home on their own . |
| 24 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 25 | What would animals say about us if they could speak , what would they do to us if they have the chance ? |
| 26 | ‘ I did think I might ask Mr Evans if they could stay on here . |
| 27 | He felt only sorry for him and sure that , if they could stay alone together for a while , Fiver would come round to an easier state of mind . |
| 28 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 29 | This was a Hibs side , too , with no need to fear relegation and every incentive to probe for damage done by Rangers ' injury crisis while seeing if they could move themselves closer to a place in Europe . |
| 30 | I made a point of saying to the Indian Ministers whom I met that , just as they had announced elections in the Punjab , so it would be excellent if they could start a political process in Kashmir so that there would be people representing the Kashmiris with whom the Government could talk . |