Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I mean I always thought if you were parked too close to it , they take your number and next thing you know , you get a , a , a summons come through the post .
2 Police say he only survived because he did n't hit anything as he rolled down an embankment .
3 Let me just check before we start that everybody 's got this .
4 Erm let me just see if I 've got a I made a whole page of notes here du n no whether any of its important .
5 I imagine it perhaps starting as one , and then escalating , as Serafin waits , smiling eagerly at her pupil , and Summerchild hunts back through his life for the required circumstances , covering his retreat with bursts of fire as he goes .
6 Examine yourself honestly to see whether your convictions are truly your own or merely inherited beliefs or shared opinions .
7 Okay well tell me no tell me please do because
8 ‘ It takes all your colour , ’ she began hesitantly , ‘ and I know I hardly look as though I would know which colour went with what , or what suited whom … ’
9 Cos you know she usually do if I have n't been round for a while she 'll say oh what 's the matter , have I done something wrong or why you have n't been round or Perhaps she thinks well it 's too far to come .
10 I know she only dribbles because of the stroke , I know that , but it does n't help .
11 cos they 'll be , whe ah well they might , you know you never know if you get a phone call from a school do you ?
12 ‘ It 's all right , I know what ter do if she wakes up , ’ he reminded her .
13 Suppose we now proceed as in 2.9.3 : we begin with the submatrix Yo and successively evaluate unc and we then solve for Mo the eigenproblem unc Then a new approximation to Y is unc At this point we may ask : what is the purpose of eigenproblem ?
14 I mean , I bet he never complained when he got 8 weeks off when he was a boy .
15 Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it .
16 Do I really care whether it hurts you , honestly .
17 Do I really care whether it hurts you , honestly ?
18 I think she just assumed because she was coming down here with her job
19 I said , I think you better go before you do n't worry about the party .
20 Of course , what do you always do when somebody says that — look down .
21 Do you always snore while you think ? ’
22 I mean do you really care when you look at these game shows , and things like that , whether this person wins a car or a holiday , you know in wherever ?
23 ‘ And do you really think if I had twenty thousand dollars ’ worth of jewellery I 'd still be here ?
24 How do you actually decide whether a state of a system , or a group of people is better than one stage than another .
25 again which they 've had have n't they ? , for how many weeks in the year do you actually attend cos I said that you do n't get grant for the holidays and it stipulates the term
26 " Mr Herriot , " he said as the smoke rose around his ears , " do you ever feel when sammat happens that it was meant to happen and that it was for t'best ? "
27 This enabled the topic of social relationships to be covered , although a direct question was also asked : ‘ Do you ever feel as though you 're on your own too much in the daytime ? ’
28 Do you ever feel as though you 're being ganged up on ?
29 What do you usually wear when doing the vacuum cleaning ? ( please tick all that apply )
30 I 'd still go out and do the same tomorrow , but it makes you wonder why do we really bother because we 're not getting the backing we need .
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