Example sentences of "[adv prt] see if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw one in the box once when she was trying her pearls on to see if they went with one of the dresses . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na put that one on to see if I can get me score down . |
| 3 | But even in remote situations I would strongly advise against this , after doing as much in a cottage in Appin only to be greeted by the landlord who had popped in to see if we were alright . |
| 4 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 5 | Our neighbour from the next door flat , a Dutch Javanese married to a Scotsman , came rushing in to see if we had heard the news . |
| 6 | ‘ I looked in to see if you were all right , and found the room empty . |
| 7 | Went round and put his hand in to see if it was dry . |
| 8 | I just decided to put it in to see if it tastes better . |
| 9 | I just decided to put it in to see if it tastes better . |
| 10 | And er something I switched the erm recorder on just before you walked in to see if it recorded . |
| 11 | I slipped in to see if he was all right . |
| 12 | If Rhoda had gone to see her sister in Eastleech , surely she would have called in to see if she had any messages . |
| 13 | Not until Miss Tuckey had missed next morning 's service did a neighbour with a key go in to see if she was all right . |
| 14 | Mrs Dawson praised Sarah for the times she has popped in to see if she could help . |
| 15 | Every year one or 2 more people come along to see if they can take on last year 's winner . |
| 16 | ‘ The Gruagach sent me here , ’ began Caspar , and stopped , and then went on with more assurance , ‘ they sent me along to see if you can provide a — well , I do n't know what you 'd call it really . |
| 17 | his lower eyelids down to see if he had anaemia . |
| 18 | The Italians , and indeed all foreigners , are known to be cruel to animals , thought Daisy , looking down to see if she could catch some peasant beating a horse or kicking a dog . |
| 19 | just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again |
| 20 | Try , come on sit down see if you 've got any more Sit down properly come on . |
| 21 | rush over to see if we can find the pot of gold . |
| 22 | Without thinking , I got up and went over to see if I could lend a hand . |
| 23 | So if ever you read work apiece , and re-submit it , you must change the title because if if you send it in , they look up to see if they 've seen that title before , if it was rejected before it will be rejected automatically . |
| 24 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 25 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 26 | Often it is the company wife who is being quietly summed up to see if she can ‘ keep up ’ with her husband or pull her weight in a job which makes a lot of social demands . |
| 27 | THE body of Robert Burns 's lover ‘ Highland Mary ’ should be dug up to see if she had his baby , says biographer James Mackay . |
| 28 | When we used to go to school in the morning I used to have to lift the bonnet up to see if she |
| 29 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |
| 30 | Oh let's connect it up see if it works . |