Example sentences of "see [conj] [pron] [modal v] find [pron] " in BNC.

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1 still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee .
2 Oh , see if I can find something to er
3 I shall have to ask around today and see if I can find his owner .
4 Oh let's have a look and see if I can find it .
5 See if I can find it .
6 See if I can find you a picture of a of a , I 've got a picture of a Roman legionnaire here but not the standard bearer .
7 Go down to the lobby and see if you can find me a copy of …
8 See if you can find them .
9 Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes
10 See if you can find your cousin Sheila ; you said you 'd ask her to dance , remember ? ’
11 Well unle , unless you come up here and see if you can find it .
12 ‘ Frank , could you do me a big favour and see if you can find who this guy Azul is ? ’
13 see if you can find his hat any where Martin
14 Ferret space today 's date and see if it can find anything .
15 See whether you can find one .
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