Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [modal v] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They avoid trouble at all times and only if they are cornered or pestered will they bite at their attackers . |
| 2 | Erm so we we asked and asked and asked could we change back to the old nutrients which we did do in the early part of December , and lo and behold , suddenly there was n't a problem . |
| 3 | Well I went to in oh about twelve months after that or less say , and er she wanted a man there , I went down there and asked could I have a job back you know . |
| 4 | Yeah , if they come up to you with a microphone and say would you like to say a few words for the television programme yourself |
| 5 | I tell you summat I 'm getting fed up because every time I do n't feel absolutely great , and I go over there and say will you stand in for me , I do n't feel well , I do n't want to . |
| 6 | I think I 'll write to Krona and say will you send a . |
| 7 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 8 | Shall I phone them up and say will you accept four fifty ? |
| 9 | Phone them up and say will you accept three fifty ! |
| 10 | And if anybody had got a cow and it calved , we used to go to him and say could we have the beastlings , please . |
| 11 | with the bloke who we have it with and say can we have it a bit earlier . |
| 12 | I 'll walk into a French bank and say can I exchange these back to sterling and they 'll say oh yes and then charge me five hundred fucking francs again or whatever it is. no five nines , nine eighteen twenty seven thirty six forty five francs . |
| 13 | You put these people on oxygen therapy for days and days and days , they come off and say can I have a cigarette ? |
| 14 | Do n't mean you can come up to me and say can I have ten grams of smack please Cassie all right . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Knock the bloke up and say Can you come and move your car ? |
| 18 | I might give you a ring later and say can you have Aaron |
| 19 | I 'm not stopping people doing it , because people ring me up and say should I do it ? |
| 20 | SKIN AND AGEING CAN YOU STOP THE CLOCK ? |
| 21 | It is not the purpose of this book to provide a history of coinage , however brief , but rather to focus on the methods by which coins are studied , for only when these methods are properly understood and applied can we realise the full potential of coins as an aid to interpreting the past . |
| 22 | What happened to all these girlfriends and this person that had phoned up on Stephen phoned up er it 's Wednesday right , and Stephen phoned up Tuesday and twenty five to eleven and says can I talk to Stephen , says hang on a minute who is it ? |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Anyway tapped on window for told me to come in and says will you tell your mate to move his car . |
| 25 | I could always phone up my mum and get can you pick me up from the Galleria and take me back to Haileybury please . |
| 26 | Well then did we all just sit there and say well you know do n't rot there 's nuclear sort of fallout and er oh dear erm what we going to do about it and decide should we get on onto it |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 29 | The lab developed analytical methods for these compounds , so that they can be detected and quantified should they appear in ground water . |
| 30 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |