Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [modal v] get a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , probably if you want me to get that old mower going I ought to go up to Woods and see if I can get a new drive belt . |
| 2 | To see if I can get a big one . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish he would , if I 'd get a good price for it , ’ the man joked . |
| 4 | See if you can get a similar report significantly quicker elsewhere and then make a decision as to whether a less powerful but quicker report will do . |
| 5 | you see if you can get a certain amount of money yes I mean take out two thousand or something |
| 6 | See if you can get a good view of these birds and count the number of toes . |
| 7 | Starting at the crowded favoured end is all very well if you can get a good clean start , but more often than not , there is so much crowding that only a few boards get away in clean wind . |
| 8 | There are certain upper class journals that use photographs a great deal , so if you can get a good photograph of something , that will already begin to sell it , in a sense . |
| 9 | If you really want to see the blues , see if you can get a Northlite tube ( if they are available ) or a Trulite . |
| 10 | It might help in advance to give certain additional information to each of the three groups independently of the others ( see above section on small group work ) : perhaps the Pied Piper is prepared to let the children free if s/he can get a good deal ; perhaps the mayor is unwilling to use any public funds to buy off the Piper . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's going to be a tough test for us and if we can get a good result there it should bring the confidence right back . ’ |
| 12 | Now if we can get a proper public transport system , a properly funded public transport system which will make , you can force people off the roads but you can also force them to persuade the approach with a properly funded er public transport system which is A priced within the peoples pockets and B er you can lead to views that will be er , er will be a great advantage for the area and the fifth terminal at Heathrow could fall par to this structure but if this new structure is n't there and if it is n't part of this adequately funded transport system then there is no point in , in building it was as I said earlier be , be madness . |
| 13 | If we can get a clear idea about the situation in which teachers find themselves at present , and how they experience it , then we shall be in a better position to see what the most productive way forward is . |
| 14 | ‘ If we could get a decent job , have somewhere settled to live , then we could get on with a proper life . |
| 15 | You ca n't play sport properly on a shoestring so if we could get a major sponsor for the world cup it 'd put a lot of people 's minds at rest so they could concentrate on their cricket |
| 16 | It is ‘ very cold , very handsome , and very dull ’ : ‘ Who 'd live in such a great , overgrown place as this , ’ Lady Glencora asks , ‘ if they could get a comfortable house like Matching ? ’ |
| 17 | she were gon na look at that place at er Audrey 's brother 's got it same as Walter 's , er second hand stuff to see if they could get a little bit of something , start him off , like , you know |
| 18 | what if they 'd get a new |
| 19 | But if he can get a new constitution accepted by regional leaders and , still better , by an elected assembly , he could establish a constitutional order with real legitimacy whatever parliament decides . |