Example sentences of "if [pron] can get [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If I can get hold of the erm the name If I can remember the name .
2 Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean .
3 Er if I can get date .
4 Let me see if I can get Bryony to see where this moorhen is .
5 Not just on my own he just said that , it was a bit bad cos I , I said to him , you know , who 's going and he listed like er reeled off , I ca n't remember , reeled off a load of blokes yes last night and I said are there any girls going and he said well I 'll see if I can get Laura and Giles to come and I said yeah I feel much better about that , you know , whatever and then today he said erm look ca n't go and was a real , I du n no he 's got something and he 's usually like the real medium and he , you know , if there 's e if there 's ever like a pregnant pause then he 's the one that like keeps it all going
6 For if I can do that — if I can get people to begin to comprehend the universality and the depth of our perversion — I would have achieved something rare and precious for the starving and dispossessed two-thirds of mankind ( sic ) from whose ranks I come , and for whose cause I must now fight . ’
7 ‘ I 'll see if I can get tickets , ’ was all he offered before kissing her sweetly on the mouth and going inside to get some paperwork together for the meeting with his lawyer who was driving out from Palma to see him .
8 If you 're not the patient but are visiting someone in hospital and ca n't afford the fares , ask your Social Security office if you can get help .
9 See if you can get hold of the medic at the back of the house . ’
10 Also try a dodge used by the Japanese — feed lettuce and , if you can get hold of it , Chinese Leaves , which is a colour-enhancer , besides providing Vitamins A , C and K and vital roughage .
11 If you can get hold of a copy of the record , check out the last section of the song and see how the whole sequence is moved up a fourth , becoming A7 , D7 , G7 and C7 , into the fade of A7 and D7 .
12 If you can get hold of the rarer tritium you may liberate nearly 18 MeV through the reaction : A problem the problem in the attempts to fuse nuclei together and release their internal energy — is that all nuclei carry positive electrical charge .
13 If you can get hold of examples , some TV advertisements are excellent aids for language teaching : they are short and very carefully planned ; every word and every visual is there by design and for specific effect .
14 Can you have a tuna sandwich there love , if you can get hold of one
15 It 's alright if you can get day release from your
16 oh yes , and , and er it 's amazing those few seconds , how much they can relieve pain and suffering , if you can get people out quickly and , and take away the , the trouble from them .
17 If you can get Neil Kinnock in , and by George , you 'd get them things done in your house !
18 After hearing defence submissions that the £600,000 payout to Mrs Sutcliffe was ‘ perverse and excessive ’ , Lord Donaldson said : ‘ It may be that the general jury approach to newspaper libel at the moment is tempered by some indignation at the way some branches of the Press are run — coupled with the feeling that , if you can get £1m on the pools , why should n't you get £1m on the newspapers too ?
19 Well let's see if we can get things quietened down for your life .
20 Mr McFadyen said : ‘ We 've already been pledged financial support by several organisations if we can get part of the old school building as a community centre . ’
21 If we can get man set up the same way we 'll have a real world-beater on our hands . ’
22 I wonder if we can get hold of some more attractive furniture .
23 cos they 're not X directory if we can get hold of the number , er so she 's going to say to her could she do it any quicker and I said well the woman said if she could do it any quicker she would ring me , she asked for me phone number .
24 you get , see if we can get hold of like , I mean you wo n't be able to get hold of a Wurlitzer because nowadays they 're like gold dust , but you might be able to get hold of parts , you see .
25 And coach Bill Calcraft , a lock in Australia 's 1984 Grand Slam-winning team , agrees : ‘ If we can get promotion , and it 's a big if because this season only one club goes up , I do believe the club , with all its superb facilities and tradition , can attract the players to put it in the top flight again . ’
26 I thought perhaps we 'd go erm , see if we can get stand by tickets for it , on Monday .
27 Er we evaluate the need and how many people want to go on it , we evaluate what it 's gon na cost and then we see if we can get money through the the safety budget that director safety holds .
28 If we can get hotel rooms for them in Reggio then they will be on the flight . ’
29 I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul
30 Any clause dependent on another : We will go to the theatre tonight ( main clause ) if we can get tickets ( subordinate clause ) .
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