Example sentences of "see [conj] he 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ( In this particular case Hertz was testing Maxwell 's electromagnetic theory to see if he could produce the radio waves predicted by that theory . ) |
| 8 | The only hope now was to reach the hand-pump in the galley and see if he could keep the level within bounds . |