Example sentences of "[conj] see if " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whether or not the contract has anything to say on this subject , an employer should at least explore the possible alternatives to dismissal , such as allowing you to make other transport arrangements or seeing if you can be fitted in elsewhere within the organisation . |
| 2 | After a while , Marcus , as if impatient , or to see if he had had any effect , stopped the breathing exercise and , half sitting up , began to pull the limp body about , almost roughly , almost angrily , as if he would scarcely believe that he was not succeeding . |
| 3 | You 'll need grout too , plus a tile cutter , preferably heavy-duty type , especially if using quarry tiles ( Vitrex makes one which will cut wall and floor tiles ) ; and it 's worth investing in a tile file or saw if you anticipate a lot of fiddly cutting round pipes and similar obstacles , and a tile gauge if you have any really awkward shapes to tile around . |
| 4 | We really must keep a better fire , or see if we can put in some central heating of some sort . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Ask about , or see if there 's any ole newspapers lyin' about in yer 'ouse . |
| 6 | So it 's that does n't Cindy 's now see if we can put the lorry back or see if the |
| 7 | As yet er , that has not been possible , but if you knew of anybody , young person who you thought might be suitable and might mi , might like the challenge of an interesting venture of this nature I 'm sure if you let us know , or let the moderator know we 'll be very happy to , er , suggest that name or see if there 's any , any possibility erm , in continuing that . |
| 8 | Well I shall sign off now & see if I can get in the office . |
| 9 | Why the hell should I look at the roof except to see if there was a satellite TV dish . |
| 10 | If all these are in order than see if anyone has replaced any of the chassis outriggers in the past ( as for the some reason 6 cyl station wagons suffer more than their fair share of chassis rust ) and that they have been replaced accurately . |
| 11 | Sir Frank added that Britain had no ‘ power to do anything other than see if it can influence the French or whichever country it may be . |
| 12 | And then you could say well we could try threes try that see if you could make em into into sets of three . |
| 13 | try that see if it 's open . |
| 14 | We 'll just check that see if it 's right . |
| 15 | The aim of this small investigation , which can not hope to be truly scientific , is to investigate the extent of the problem and to see if there are any obvious patterns . |
| 16 | Already , and it is hardly May , I have wandered down to the County Ground at Taunton to see old chums , and some not so old , and to see if I any longer belong . |
| 17 | As always when drawing , I stand back from the piece at regular intervals to get an overall feel as to how the drawing is developing , and to see if it is uniform in shade and texture . |
| 18 | Such interviews are particularly important to assess character and to see if the interpersonal chemistry is right . |
| 19 | As always when drawing , I stand back from the piece at regular intervals to get an overall feel as to how the drawing is developing , and to see if it is uniform in shade and texture . |
| 20 | I just want to know those three things — the extent of the damage , the location of this ticking noise and to see if it 's possible to remove this atom bomb or whatever , which I 'm convinced in advance is impossible . |
| 21 | At present it is smothered with yellow varnish , and while conservation due to begin at the Rijksmuseum in the Spring will certainly improve it , it remains to be seen how much of the picture can be recovered , and to see if the Rijksmuseum 's money was well spent . |
| 22 | ‘ And to see if you remind them of anybody . ’ |
| 23 | After an hour he went to see how she was doing , and to see if she needed anything . |
| 24 | It will be interesting for me to compare the processes and to see if the two can benefit from each other 's experience . ’ |
| 25 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 26 | No those 15 trucks and trailers will move from Assab to Desai and they should arrive in Dessi this morning , and then in Desai they 'll have to be transferred to er a certain amount of food to smaller trucks , and we think that the first group of trucks will be just perhaps 5 trucks that will really test the road from Desai up to Waldia in the area controlled by the rebels to see if there really is a safe passage agreement and to see if er there are bridges out on that road or whether there are land mines left on the road , to see if it is actually possible to move food across those lines . |
| 27 | The other best bit about sleeping with Marie is waking up and seeing if she 's awake . |
| 28 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 29 | We can test the usefulness of wide-ranging theories of juvenile delinquency by reading books like The Jack-Roller and seeing if they bear any resemblance to the theory . |
| 30 | An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes . |