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

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1 So what if they tell you to sod off and mind your own business ?
2 okay So what if you ask you in an interview , ‘ How do you feel about this personally ? ’
3 So what if I report him .
4 If you touch a wheel , you 'll fall in a slide and half the peloton will ride over you before they fall themselves .
5 Yes , well , if you go , if just you and I go we 're likely to end up with somebody who knows us .
6 Not anyone till I know who killed Ephraim . ’
7 ‘ It could , and both you and I know it , Kit , ’ Alec replied .
8 We give up something and we gain something from employment .
9 The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do .
10 And then after that erm , he said well , well he can please himself and I suppose he he erm , well I think er , year .
11 You would would n't you if I put you into the freezer .
12 Eighteen forty six , eighteen forty eight , or eighteen fifty take a guess ca n't you or you have one in three chances this is one I did n't know , who were the Magi ?
13 But at least then we 're gon na be ready are n't we if we put his name down at four or five schools in the area .
14 The problem there is that graduates are so terribly boring and uninteresting people basically are n't they that they find it difficult to impart their er
15 Yeah we could cut it into twelfths but there are only two people so they 're gon na finish up with lots of little bits are n't they if we cut it
16 The other morning , earlier on in the week , the phone rings quarter too six , you know , it takes a while does n't it before you realise what it is ?
17 It 's a matter for you as individuals is n't it if you witness something ?
18 Yes and that means forty percent does n't it if you know what I mean so we can make an assumption that Hydro Electric comprise a chunk of that
19 I think it must be easy to plan must n't it if you know you 've got that top number of hours from looking at what you 've got
20 It 's very annoying is n't it if you buy something from a shop and find it wo n't work ?
21 I mean one thing that 's mentioned before is about tag questions , which is where you put on question to the end of your sentence , as in Oh do n't you agree or Is n't it or you know you know the sort of thing I mean .
22 Then whom or what have I been seeing , Mrs Ridley ?
23 Businessmen are now so convinced of the need to have a well-trained workforce — partly because of persistent skills shortages and partly because of the evangelising work of the TECs themselves — that they will cut almost anything before they cut their training budgets .
24 Did either you or him shout anything ?
25 On 2 May 1839 Prince wrote to Gould in Australia warning him of Swainson 's impending visit : ‘ Mr. Yarrell has just called and requested me to tell you that Mr Swainson is going to Australia whether to collect or to settle is not known at present but he considered it of importance that you should know it as quickly as possible not that either he or I think it can in any way affect you as you have so good a start and his wonted and well known irregularity of publication will surely militate against him . ’
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