Example sentences of "to see if [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Contact your insurance company to see if they 'll offer a discount for customers with burglar alarms . |
| 2 | It 's important for the younger people who are waiting to see if they will get a pension when they retire . |
| 3 | Planners will today be told to see if they can find a way to close a vital Nottingham City Centre link road without causing major traffic problems . |
| 4 | If there is a real difficulty , get in touch with someone from their local community to see if they can provide an interpreter . |
| 5 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 6 | At every corner they paused , checked the signal strength , held it at arm 's length to see if they could detect a greater strength around the other side . |
| 7 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 8 | she were gon na look at that place at er Audrey 's brother 's got it same as Walter 's , er second hand stuff to see if they could get a little bit of something , start him off , like , you know |
| 9 | The children looked all along the bank to see if they could find a boat . |
| 10 | Just la 's look to see if we can make a case all right ? |
| 11 | Well , I suggest someone nips over next door to see if we can borrow a room — that is , if it is felt that we need actually to discuss anything more . " |
| 12 | We hope to make contact with the many Catholic teachers in state high schools to see if we can organise an RE programme for the Catholic pupils . |
| 13 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like to make a record so we 're putting together some tapes this month and we hope to send them off to recording companies and agents to see if we can get a contract . |
| 15 | He had gone early , before it was too unbearably hot , to see if he could obtain a newspaper which might tell him what was happening . |
| 16 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 17 | Willie peered gingerly outside to see if he could catch a glimpse of the strange boy from the Post Office . |
| 18 | He looked across to see if he could catch a glimpse of Nenna and the girls , and ask them what they thought about it , but everybody seemed to have gone ashore . |
| 19 | Sometimes new tooling and equipment er and as I said before , a craftsman always looks to see if he can do a particular job better , if not somewhat easier er than hitherto . |
| 20 | And in the last year or so , several of the top galleries have approached me to see if I 'd consider a deal with one of their artists ; for example , Fischer Fine Art offered Gillian Ayers , and Nigel Greenway offered Jeffery Camp . |
| 21 | I 'm keeping my head swivelling from side to side to see if I can spot a space |
| 22 | I 'll have to see if I can borrow a car . ’ |
| 23 | To see if I can get a big one . |
| 24 | I shall have to see if I can get a sitter for you two children . |
| 25 | Without thinking , I got up and went over to see if I could lend a hand . |
| 26 | To see if I could do an early . |
| 27 | Er it 's just to see if I could get a repeat prescription for the pill . |
| 28 | I was trying last year to try to see if I could get a erm an Indian , you know when we sort of do looking at Asia |
| 29 | Ooh then I went to the B and Q to see if I could get a blind to match , but I spent , so I |
| 30 | My purpose was to see if I could write a novel with only two characters , preserving the unities of time , place and action ( it all happens in one day in John 's London flat ) , without any cheating through long flashbacks or such devices . |