Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [modal v] [pron] " 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 | ‘ It was not logic that carried might one say that the quicksilver in the barometer changes the weather . |
| 3 | member of the US Congress whom Martin Chuzzlewit meets on board the steamboat returning from Eden , a chauvinistic windbag celebrated for a speech called ‘ the Pogram Defiance ’ which , Martin is informed by another passenger , ‘ defied the world in general to com-pete with our country upon any hook ; and develop 'd our internal resources for making war upon the universal airth ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Shall I phone them up and say will you accept four fifty ? |
| 10 | Phone them up and say will you accept three fifty ! |
| 11 | Just before you go on , sorry erm er would an official of a township peasant association walk into the house of a rich peas peasant , register in hand and say will you please join the peasant association , how would the rich peasant answer . |
| 12 | I think I 'll write to Krona and say will you send a . |
| 13 | And if anybody had got a cow and it calved , we used to go to him and say could we have the beastlings , please . |
| 14 | with the bloke who we have it with and say can we have it a bit earlier . |
| 15 | You put these people on oxygen therapy for days and days and days , they come off and say can I have a cigarette ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Do n't mean you can come up to me and say can I have ten grams of smack please Cassie all right . |
| 19 | Knock the bloke up and say Can you come and move your car ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I might give you a ring later and say can you have Aaron |
| 22 | I 'm not stopping people doing it , because people ring me up and say should I do it ? |
| 23 | Only by having fought every battle and won can we be free from the constraints of being used to act out the wheel of life and be truly ourselves . |
| 24 | Doubtless many poets envied Duck , for whom the queen had ‘ Enlarg 'd thy Bottle , and enrich 'd thy Beer ’ . |
| 25 | SKIN AND AGEING CAN YOU STOP THE CLOCK ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Anyway tapped on window for told me to come in and says will you tell your mate to move his car . |
| 30 | Well you have to tell a load of lies as he said well it 's a right shambles , nobody would go and see would they ? |