Example sentences of "if [pron] could get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could get exams just now , I would . |
| 2 | And I came to ask the doctor if I could get H R T. And she took my blood pressure and it was too high |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , it might be , if I could get hold of him . |
| 4 | If I could get hold of him , I 'd kill him . |
| 5 | The boy 's father , Gavin Lodge , said : If I could get hold of these idiots they would n't sit down for a week . ’ |
| 6 | Oh I 'll see if I could get ideas . |
| 7 | With one , one man said I used to put , in the cold mornings I used to put my other hand at the bottom to see if I could get heat , but he could n't touch his fingers because they were so tender . |
| 8 | Or it would be , if she could get Peter to understand . |
| 9 | She had the feeling that if she could get Eddie to go on talking long enough , there was a chance that something significant would emerge . |
| 10 | I do n't know if it was by accident — I should ask him one day — but I used to play that over and over again and just revel in that sound , and I thought if you could get hold of that sound and make a feature of it , and if it were not just two guitars but as many as you needed to make a proper arrangement , the possibilities would be endless . |
| 11 | if you could get hold of any before I went out , I need to be out at quarter to ten . |
| 12 | If you could get hold of it . |
| 13 | If we could get Laura saying nasty words to me on this tape ! |
| 14 | ‘ Talking about steamrollers , ’ Otley said , ‘ it would be handy if we could get hold of one . ’ |
| 15 | If we could get Tony 's ma on the list , we are only a step away from having inside info and influence . |
| 16 | Some felt constrained by lack of alternative child care — as many as two-fifths said they would return to work sooner if they could get child care . |
| 17 | He had heard that I knew Robert W. Service and felt it would be a ‘ good idea ’ if they could get Service to fly up and formally open the new building . |
| 18 | The only way it would matter is that somebody breathes the information to , if they could get hold of a card , and get into an office , they could actually use the information to make a payment . |
| 19 | Mom would probably give her back teeth to make a picture with McQueen but nobody would cast her if they could get Faye Dunaway . |
| 20 | The X Business Group , the force trying to energize this new-fangled trade organisation , the X Industry Association ( UX No 410 ) , has extended the December deadline it set to see if it could get industry backing until January because the solicitation letters just went out . |
| 21 | If he could get Jordan talking , he might get something out of him . |
| 22 | He wonders if he could get postcards of them . |
| 23 | If he could get hold of something from Beamish , he might be able to lay his hands on some thallium by lunchtime . |
| 24 | Its funny ( sort of ) , Iwas contemplating sending a begging letter to Mr Humphries to see if he could get hold of a shirt for me … |
| 25 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |
| 26 | If he could get contributions from Japan , the Germans , and above all , the rich Arab states , then the war could more than pay for itself , as well as unambiguously showing the world whose new world order it would be . |