Example sentences of "[verb] if [pron] [vb mod] [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 and anyway this fellow said do you want some rabbit it 's a pound each , so we ordered some rabbits , ai n't got them yet like , but I do n't know if we 'll get them or not
2 Do n't know if we could hold them to , to it .
3 I think you are meant to post the voucher with your ticket application , I do n't know if you can use them over the phone .
4 Tom did not know if he would have them .
5 I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all .
6 Apparently her parents think she 's staying with wanted to know if she could send them our phone number and say she was staying here .
7 In the Australian experience referred to earlier , those engaged in the study of alternative community-based educational initiatives stressed the former rather than the latter , ‘ The innovating organisation will only survive if it can show them ( the statutory bodies and local power groups ) that its power is complementary rather than invasive . ’
8 Well would you perhaps like to give them a , a ring to , to say what I spoke about today then I 'll give them a ring , say if you could ring them tomorrow then I 'll ring them er er tomorrow evening a as well and then perhaps I can , you know , they , you 've given them the ground work to actually er for me to ring as well and then I can discuss with him and arrange an appointment to go and see him is that okay ?
9 ‘ Well , they can just think again , ’ replied Rachel hotly , ‘ and if anyone says anything to you on those lines I would be obliged if you would put them straight . ’
10 I had taken a couple of slices of bread up the tree with me , with the intention of feeding small pieces of pinched flake into their midst to see if they would accept them .
11 We 've got the department quality manuals , working guideline , we 've got the quality control manual , we 've got the quality manual erm , it would be nice to see if we could harmonise them .
12 " We are always looking for new ideas on planting and design to see if we can vary them to suit our garden . "
13 In marking the piece , draw his attention only to the words is , it , bom , stown , Point out to him wondow , garben and somedody to see if he can correct them himself .
14 As it was , I already knew of their resignation as both had phoned me to see if I would give them backing in a boardroom coup .
15 I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling …
16 two hundred and twenty nine then hundred and seventy five but I mean if we could sell them six quid a time well
17 If you had your own cat as they 're very territorial animals , I mean if they could see them off .
18 This idea that protect children , not tell them about what 's happening , I mean if anybody can protect them to that extent when even Neighbours is put at a different time on the television , you know , erm that somehow we make them warm and secure by not telling them , to me that is making them dependent and unable maybe to cope later on in their lives .
19 So twelve , I mean if you can remember them twelve stands for four beats in a bar anyway
20 Well when they was feeding these up , you could have one for yourself as long as you let the government have one , see , and er , er , of course the next to feed a pig up , see , but er , I mean if you could fed them properly you could erm , perhaps get one ready in er , six to nine months you see , and er , which would be a , a good bacon pig like , if you fed it er , correctly .
21 The boys asked if we could pay them some ‘ small money ’ to buy pens for schools .
22 And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually !
23 ‘ I was n't too keen on two or three of the swear words , ’ he said , ‘ and I asked if I could leave them out .
24 I asked if I could read them .
25 Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction .
26 Next day a great buzzard asked if she might join them .
27 Then she went down to the cancer shop and asked if she could help them .
28 Comment If these results seems rather too trivial to bother about , let's see if we can make them more impressive ( and less " obvious " ? ) by stating their conclusions in words : ( i ) The product of the additive identity with any integer always yields the additive identity .
29 Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support .
30 Let's go underground and see if we can get them to talk a bit more freely . "
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