Example sentences of "[verb] if [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if we ought to put a timetable on that , on what 's going on , on this erm , eco-management erm , business , but also , I was wondering , could we not ask for a report to the March or April meeting of this committee , on what actions we could take to make progress on the recommendations of the district auditor in paragraph forty-four . |
| 2 | So I do n't know if I can get a . |
| 3 | I own an ex-Irish army Series III 1972 Land Rover , I 've recently fitted a Range Rover V8 instead of the 2,25 and would like to know if I can put a transfer box on to a 5-speed SD1 gear box . |
| 4 | I should not object if you could introduce a note of patriotism in the schools ’ , And then , with a grin … |
| 5 | It might help in advance to give certain additional information to each of the three groups independently of the others ( see above section on small group work ) : perhaps the Pied Piper is prepared to let the children free if s/he can get a good deal ; perhaps the mayor is unwilling to use any public funds to buy off the Piper . |
| 6 | He tried how he could bear it by putting his fingers into the lighted candle , so I the other day tried if I could scour a pewter plate . |
| 7 | But Scotsman Billy said last night : ‘ My wife wonders if we should get a gun . |
| 8 | On the American side the multilateralists believed that protectionism in the United States might be weakened if they could win a demonstrable success against Imperial Preference . |
| 9 | Coffin was already beginning to wonder if he could fit a face to the type of killer he had imagined . |
| 10 | ‘ But Canon Wheeler would be obliged if you could attend a little earlier to get a head start , ’ said Miss Coldharbour . |
| 11 | Tuesday night about seeing if we can do a bit more sorting out in her bedroom . |
| 12 | This involved taking apart any statements made by known offenders and seeing if they could pinpoint a flaw somewhere along the line . |
| 13 | An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes . |
| 14 | Contact your insurance company to see if they 'll offer a discount for customers with burglar alarms . |
| 15 | It 's important for the younger people who are waiting to see if they will get a pension when they retire . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | The children looked all along the bank to see if they could find a boat . |
| 20 | Just la 's look to see if we can make a case all right ? |
| 21 | 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 . " |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 26 | Willie peered gingerly outside to see if he could catch a glimpse of the strange boy from the Post Office . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'm keeping my head swivelling from side to side to see if I can spot a space |