Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through one of the glass panes in Plover Hide I could see a twite : a plump little linnet-like bird , brown , streaky-breasted , with a bright yellow stubby bill . |
| 2 | It is the text , however , where I fear I must fault the guide at times . |
| 3 | Anyway i , d' you wan na use your hose I mean I 'll put the car in the garage if you do . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean I might see the prince ! ’ |
| 5 | and I mean I 'd love the Bluecoat but I mean you 've got to be pretty clever for that . |
| 6 | I 'm , I 'm not quite sure , I mean I 'd give an |
| 7 | Well I would er , I mean I 'd have the bathroom slightly cooler then and all ! |
| 8 | I mean I can mention the firms , there were several of them in Stapleford , because I know two , but er perhaps as well not to . |
| 9 | The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays . |
| 10 | I mean I can understand the point of will , will , will |
| 11 | It depends which relief road we 're talking about , but I think I would accept I mean I can accept the point that er Mr is making about er the relative er benefits in terms of traffic relief afforded by either an inner northern route or an outer northern route . |
| 12 | I mean I can take a form up to the porters in Goodricke and they 'll give me a key to a minibus . |
| 13 | MAX : You mean I can have a go at the tune ? |
| 14 | Oh does she , I , I mean I can have a word with little kids always . |
| 15 | I , I mean I can have a sausage roll and a piece of cake |
| 16 | I mean I can see a typical lot of people at a time |
| 17 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 18 | I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees . |
| 19 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 20 | I mean I can get a bit more off you see . |
| 21 | W well if it wou if it would help I mean I could produce the list that we have in mind . |
| 22 | From where I lay I could see the repeated pattern of the sleepers slowly passing beneath the train . |
| 23 | So I send I 'll send a bit each w week fortnight when I get all my money . |
| 24 | I expect I 'll find a way of testing your different abilities . |
| 25 | Joan and Dennis will tell me all about it I 'm sure and I expect I will get a Christmas card from Kylie and her mother and father , ’ she added . |
| 26 | We can both feel the strain plucking at the atmosphere , so when I say I 'll return the keys to the landlord she gives me his address to get me out of the way . |
| 27 | Next time I see him , I 'll probably see him tomorrow no I , you usually see him round town , so I say I 'll arrange a time |
| 28 | As I say I 'll take a stall and I 'll be there all day if anyone can help me . |
| 29 | I say I 'll have a word with them and he should n't follow me . |
| 30 | they ca n't tell the difference I mean there 's nothing In fact if I ca n't get Krona at Presto and I ca n't get it at Co-op , I shall write to Kr to Pre to Krona and say I 'll have a I 'll have a box . |