Example sentences of "see [conj] [pron] could [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That as soon as he was refuelled he took the opportunity of seeing if he could locate the remains of that American plane ? ’ |
| 2 | Many had come to see if they could break the record for the longest uninterrrupted ride on the tidal wave . |
| 3 | The Edinburgh specialists were so touched by their pleas they invited the family over to Edinburgh to see if they could help the boy . |
| 4 | Almost nine months later , we found an engine without the accessories , and Continental Airlines once again came to the rescue , flying Tim , our mechanic Chuck Blanchard and me out to see if we could get the Tri-Pacer flying again . |
| 5 | We then had a stroke of luck as Filden I broke down in Dieppe and the owner was sent to see if he could locate the trouble . |
| 6 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 7 | So , he grafted tissue from the posterior margin that would die to other parts of the chick limb to see if he could rescue the cells from death . |
| 8 | There must have been something specially feline about that particular note , because Gautier carried out experiments to see if he could fool the cat , but she always responded with her critical paw precisely when the note reached high A. |
| 9 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 10 | ( In this particular case Hertz was testing Maxwell 's electromagnetic theory to see if he could produce the radio waves predicted by that theory . ) |
| 11 | The three weeks that I was in the scheme for — they trained me to see if I could do the job properly , they were able to see what I 'd be like when I was doing the job . |
| 12 | I blurted out , ‘ Doctor Reid , could I try to see if I could stop the disease without using splints or operating ? ’ |
| 13 | I ran to see if I could help the traveller , who was swearing furiously as he pulled himself free of his horse . |
| 14 | Reverting for a moment to the last chapter , we saw that we could answer the question of how it is that subsequent generations could acquire the superego organization produced by the primal trauma of human civilization , but only is so far as our answer was limited to archaic hunting societies like those in central Australia . |
| 15 | So we went back to the basics to see whether we could ask the Government to abolish the ‘ cohab rule ’ altogether . |
| 16 | Would Sara and Mr. Preston come down to the police station and see if they could identify the men ? |
| 17 | The only hope now was to reach the hand-pump in the galley and see if he could keep the level within bounds . |
| 18 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |