Example sentences of "to see [subord] i [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 As it was , I already knew of their resignation as both had phoned me to see if I would give them backing in a boardroom coup .
2 My private idea , which I hardly dare mention in case I 've got it all wrong , is that you were copying the style of some book or other to see if I would recognize it .
3 A lady come up yesterday to see if I would do it .
4 Some time towards the end of 1943 I was approached by the US Office of War Information to see if I would join their staff as adviser on Burmese subjects and language .
5 To see if I 'd nick it or not . ’
6 I feel each letter to see if I can guess which one 's mine .
7 He then continues to say ‘ This is a game to see if I can make you say ‘ sixteen ’ within sixty seconds ' .
8 I 'm gon na put that one on to see if I can get me score down .
9 I do it ( a little ) to see if I can get him drunk and careless , but so far he wo n't touch it .
10 I stare into the TV picture to see if I can see anyone moving in my flat .
11 I wanted to see if I could experience it .
12 I had to go over there just to see how dockers worked over there , to see if I could improve it here , well I could n't because dockers would n't do what they , they were doing in Holland .
13 Corman admitted , ‘ I did one film really more as a joke to see if I could do it ; filmed it in two days and a night .
14 Our own son had practised Ramadan on one of his trips to the Middle East ‘ just to see if I could do it ’ .
15 enquired just to see if I could do it but er
16 I popped in on yer to see if I could do anything for yer , like did yer want a medical bandage that I could get cheap .
17 Accordingly , one winter 's day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place in America , I decided to see if I could find him .
18 As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ .
19 When a pump action toothpaste tube became empty in my bathroom , I decided to take it apart to see if I could put it to further use .
20 I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling …
21 I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow .
22 They waited for my comments , waited to see whether I would condemn their beliefs or laugh .
23 ‘ So after the fire , Himmelbrau and Strick called me in to see whether I could do something to re-establish their client files — thirty years of legal practice up in smoke .
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