Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] i [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I do n't know if I can give xylophone cat , it 's a good erm |
| 2 | I had to know if I could put life into it . |
| 3 | Want to see if I can spot Miss and Victor . |
| 4 | You want me to see if I can find Mick do n't you ? |
| 5 | With one , one man said I used to put , in the cold mornings I used to put my other hand at the bottom to see if I could get heat , but he could n't touch his fingers because they were so tender . |
| 6 | Well this woman came round last night and asked if I 'd take part . |
| 7 | Then the lady in charge asked if I could alter garments that were too long or too short and , mug that I am , I agreed . |
| 8 | I realised there were periods of time when this pool is hardly used , so I approached the management and asked if I could bring parties of residents here from Conway House . |
| 9 | My teacher , Mr Taylor , did tell us to do our talk on something we knew about , so I asked if I could bring Dawn in and tell the other kids about what I was doing . |
| 10 | And what is more , I 'll give it or not as I please ; and I 'll be buggered if I 'll ask permission of some pushy little perisher before I do so . ’ |
| 11 | Oh I 'll see if I could get ideas . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll see if I can locate Mr Clancy , ’ she said , in some alarm . |
| 13 | Oh right well I 'll erm er see er I 'll , I 'll see if I can catch Ian and , and , and see what , see what 's happened to it |
| 14 | Let me see if I can get Bryony to see where this moorhen is . |
| 15 | Not just on my own he just said that , it was a bit bad cos I , I said to him , you know , who 's going and he listed like er reeled off , I ca n't remember , reeled off a load of blokes yes last night and I said are there any girls going and he said well I 'll see if I can get Laura and Giles to come and I said yeah I feel much better about that , you know , whatever and then today he said erm look ca n't go and was a real , I du n no he 's got something and he 's usually like the real medium and he , you know , if there 's e if there 's ever like a pregnant pause then he 's the one that like keeps it all going |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll see if I can get tickets , ’ was all he offered before kissing her sweetly on the mouth and going inside to get some paperwork together for the meeting with his lawyer who was driving out from Palma to see him . |
| 17 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 18 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
| 19 | All I know how to do is write songs , and that 's what I want to do because I would like people to feel as good as I did when I heard a song for the first time . ’ |
| 20 | And when I get a first-class degree , which I hope to do , I 'll be forgiven because I 'll bring status to the family . |
| 21 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
| 22 | Er I doubt if I , I doubt if I 'll see Granville before Friday . |
| 23 | ‘ I would only go if I could take Terry , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ Although I doubt whether I 'll have time to fit everything in . ’ |
| 25 | He was about to ring off when , on an impulse , Theodora said , ‘ I wonder if I might visit St Benet 's ? |
| 26 | ‘ I wonder if I can send Dick my love and wish him a speedy recovery through Guitarist … ? ’ asked Clem . |
| 27 | I wonder if I could bring Mr Williamson back to the basic methodology of calculation of the overall requirement share . |
| 28 | Well I think if I could ask James to help on the geographic spread of the profits overall and then I could perhaps supplement that afterwards on the oil services . |
| 29 | One young waiter did , but very ( very ) badly , and after several efforts asked whether I could speak English . |
| 30 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |