Example sentences of "if [pron] wanted [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 If I wanted to copy all of the department twenty two files to the , the A disk , the floppy disk .
2 ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it .
3 Even to allow such images into her mind meant she 'd dropped the barriers too far — something she could n't afford to do if she wanted to survive this experience mentally intact .
4 If she wanted to climb all that way , that was her business .
5 She was beginning to speak more quickly now , as if she wanted to rush all the words out .
6 What if you wanted to push that there VW Golf off this ‘ ere road , through that there hedge … ’
7 Fresco enables developers to create applications that use tens of thousands of run-time objects : ‘ you 'd have big problems if you wanted to do that with conventional X-Windows widgets or XT intrinsics , ’ he says .
8 Gillian said she did n't want flowers , she did n't want to , to , they thought they were a waste of money and er she said , needed , she 'd wanted to send any , if you wanted to send any just to send it to , to nursing .
9 So , all th , even if you wanted to make that qualification , it 's there , in him , I am righteous !
10 So if we wanted to do some , I mean if you , if you can use that to do mental arithmetic to impress your mates , that 's .
11 If we wanted to pick this up and said , This was an idea .
12 If they wanted to do that while we climbed our mountain , that was fine by me .
13 You know they they 're a lot of the older men makes you wonder have they been sacked so they do n't have to pay them hand shakes at the end you know if they wanted to lay some people off .
14 And on a farm when there was only one team , if they wanted to have half a day , carting , aye well the carter was very very annoyed , he did n't like that job at all .
15 A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any .
16 Titch left him a key , you see , while he was away , so he could keep an eye on the place , or maybe if he wanted to do some painting , the way your nan carried on about him doing it at home — anyway , he went round there that night . ’
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