Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Yes erm I do n't know if I mentioned you a question properly er right there were young lads in there they be young lads in that lodge do this and they jump up and they make a decision quickly .
2 What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ?
3 I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector .
4 The older man 's bushy grey brows rose as he shot her a penetrating glance .
5 ‘ That will get stolen , ’ the minister of health exclaims when I show him the picture of the pressure cooker that is meant to be used as a steriliser in the dispensaries .
6 I mean once I know what a thing is
7 Erm yes three pictures that you might like to sell if you give me a price for them .
8 When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered .
9 How would you feel if you knitted yourself a nice little doll , out of the most expensive yarn you could buy , and spent the best years of your life working on it to make it as perfect as you could — then it suddenly got up and walked away and turned into something different ? ’
10 Here ref , what would you do if I called you a plonker ?
11 What would you do if I gave you the jade ?
12 It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out .
13 It does n't matter if we do it a little bit before you do it at school because when you do it you 'll understand then and you can get a lot from it you can ask
14 But wait till you see what the old man did to some of the interior . "
15 Wait till I get you a cup of cocoa , Mark , ’ said Mrs Mallory .
16 You learn to listen because you know what a rectangle is and you can measure your idea of it against theirs .
17 She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before .
18 The creature is seen chasing two teenage boys — but all is saved when one tosses him a can of Pepsi .
19 Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him .
20 ‘ I 'm buggered if I know what the point is , ’ said Wilcox sourly .
21 Would you mind if we paid her a visit instead ? ’ she appealed .
22 Well I suppose I 'm sure Adrian wo n't mind if I paid him the day after or a week after or something .
23 Would you mind if I bought you a coffee or something ? ’
24 So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’
25 You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it .
26 * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here .
27 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
28 He frowned as he handed her a cup of tea .
29 Travis frowned as he handed her a mug of soup .
30 The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs .
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