Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [modal v] [pron] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | with the bloke who we have it with and say can we have it a bit earlier . |
| 2 | That 's right , I mean you , you looked in , in , in , if you had a fire out in the sticks somewhere , you 'd look to see where the telephone was , where if there were any , and then knock on somebody 's door perhaps , at two o'clock in the morning and say can I use your telephone , and they were n't very happy sometimes I can tell you . |
| 3 | Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know . |
| 4 | I 'm not stopping people doing it , because people ring me up and say should I do it ? |
| 5 | Half past eleven at night they went and knocked Wendy 's door and says can you give me some photos of your daughter and there were two girls and they thought that they were the only two and the woman said that the only two girls I know that are alike them , their age group , erm , er are Nicholas daughter and erm , and erm her friend |
| 6 | Anyway tapped on window for told me to come in and says will you tell your mate to move his car . |
| 7 | I could always phone up my mum and get can you pick me up from the Galleria and take me back to Haileybury please . |
| 8 | sending their mail to erm Body Shop er , they 'd been grooming their nails because they 've heard that the Body shops , in the paper the other day erm are paying ten pounds per nail if your nail 's an inch long , you know , so you cut this talon off if it 's an inch long and they had loads and loads of them sent in envelopes or people just ringing up and asking can we send our nail , ten pound a nail and they said , where the rumour started from these people had heard that because they do n't do erm experiments on animals any more they 're using nails to do experiments , the nail polish and that |
| 9 | And he said that he 'd phoned them and said could they change it and he 'd finish at eleven then he can still start tomorrow night again at quarter to one . |
| 10 | and David phone him up and said will you take us up dad . |
| 11 | ‘ So he came to you and said can you put me up and you did ? ’ asked an unfeeling Coffin . |
| 12 | For example if you went into a bicycle shop and said can you sell me a bike suitable for a seven year old child ? |
| 13 | But if you did and said can you sell me some erm emulsion paint , which is non-drip , and they sell you some matt paint , which drips , then clearly they 've sold you something which was not fit for the purpose that you had specified . |
| 14 | And then she went in one day and she knew she 'd had a thousand and said can I extend it ? |
| 15 | And see can you get him back into the world ? ’ |