Example sentences of "if [pers pn] can [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sift through the letters and bills and whatnot and see if I can make any sense of it all . ’ |
| 2 | Can I I if I can get any tapes to you this week I shall . |
| 3 | If you can offer any information or guidance on career-changing workshops etc. , I would be very grateful . |
| 4 | ‘ If you can cough any trifle on it up , Pip , I 'd recommend you do it , ’ said Joe , all aghast . |
| 5 | Look hard at your outgoings and see if you can eliminate any luxuries without making yourself too miserable . |
| 6 | Having used these twelve sentences in your do-it-yourself practice and been aware of the sound ( or memory of sound ) and of the slight differences which are visible , you may like to compare two sentences , each from a different group , specially noticing if you can spot any difference in the diphthong shapes . |
| 7 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 8 | Er if you were a fairly decent criminal though you , you may well have a look through the windows to see if you can see any detectors on the wall , just to confirm it , because by now you 'd be thinking that a lot of these are dummies . |
| 9 | Amy , take Mr Thompson and get all his wife 's details from him , please , and then see if you can find any notes . |
| 10 | Helps if you can find any matches . |
| 11 | See if you can get any wood |
| 12 | If we can treat any piece of conversational data as a process in which two or more participants speak within the topic framework , we should also find in their contributions elements which characterise their own personal ‘ speaker 's topics ’ . |
| 13 | My next port of call is the area agent , if we can get any sense out of the poor old boy . ’ |
| 14 | Probably the ideal candidate for reading our book would be someone who would perhaps be involved in the manufacturer of erm products and , having recognised that washing machines are involved with microprocessors , are anxious to see if they can get any insight into the role that microprocessors can play |
| 15 | ‘ If they can get any mug to buy it . ’ |
| 16 | The NRPB now intends to begin an epidemiological investigation across Britain to see if it can spot any increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer in areas under the night path of the radiation cloud that spread south-east from Windscale 25 years ago . |
| 17 | We show that provided the B's believe that A follows a linear strategy , then , it is best for A to behave in this way even if it can choose any strategy . |
| 18 | I ask Steve if he can see any reasons behind the constant attrition of top mountaineers . |