Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [subord] i [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Poor Bernard , I must see if I can sew it for him . |
| 2 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'll know because I shall take great pleasure in telling everyone the truth ! ’ |
| 4 | Er I might see if I could pick up that Sheffield United guy Jamie Hoyland . |
| 5 | I 'm er I 'm gon na erm , I might see if I can record some conversation on a bus , but I do n't know . |
| 6 | I might see if I can persuade them to do some practice bits with Therese . ’ |
| 7 | Oh I 'll see if I could get ideas . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me what you want to know from me and I 'll see if I can oblige , ’ he says , after another pause slashed and stabbed by the insect life . |
| 9 | ‘ If you ask me what you want to know I 'll see if I can tell you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll see if I can locate Mr Clancy , ’ she said , in some alarm . |
| 11 | And if not I 'll see if I can think of an excuse to try and contact her myself . ’ |
| 12 | Doctor Volkov is off duty today , but I 'll see if I can check through the files in case . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll see if I can hurry it . ’ |
| 14 | Oh right well I 'll erm er see er I 'll , I 'll see if I can catch Ian and , and , and see what , see what 's happened to it |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll see if I can get the service engineer out this morning . ’ |
| 16 | I 'll see if I can get you some clothes tomorrow . |
| 17 | And I 'll see if I can get a copy of CorelDraw . |
| 18 | a minute I 'll see if I can get you something |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Well I 'll see if I can get some candles that colour . |
| 21 | Well they 're obviously not , looks like a pensioner or something , but eh , you know , erm I can , I 'll see if I can get an old , a walking club going with them , you know ? |
| 22 | And aye your mum said today well I 'll , I 'll see if I can get it er can do anything with it |
| 23 | Oh I 'll see if I can get some of that . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | I know what we 'll do ; I 'll go up on the dunes and you hit the bell with your bit of wood and we 'll see if I can hear it . |
| 26 | I 'll see if I can find out more from Kathleen . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll see if I can find you a treat . ’ |
| 28 | Then I 'll see if I can find you a job and some decent lodgings . |
| 29 | I 'll see if I can find it . ’ |
| 30 | But I 'll see if I can find . |