Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before .
2 I should like i if I may Mr Deputy Speaker , to commend Welsh billing authorities for their better than expected performance in collecting the council tax .
3 Course I 'd like it , if I could June I would like it for Friday .
4 And who should Mr Milburn be but your dear Andrew .
5 if you would Sue .
6 If you could Cynthia .
7 If Anyone Can Canon Can ’ , or so the TV commercials tell us .
8 And what would Gemma Dallam — Gemma Gage — think to that , she wondered , if she knew the price he had made another woman pay to recover her brown satin ?
9 And what would Jesus have to do for that ?
10 And what would Lord Pugh , that purified man , be feeling ?
11 And what would Silas do about Stella ?
12 McAllister put down her brush , placed her hands on her hips in the manner of every recalcitrant servant and said aggressively , with the hint of a twinkle in her eye , ‘ And what would Miss Mates say if I neglect my early morning duties ? ’
13 And what should Britain and France do about it ?
14 Well yes but it will Ruth be going ?
15 But what 'll Fagin say ? ’ asked the Dodger .
16 But what would Britain be like after three , and possibly four , terms of a Thatcher-dominated government ?
17 But what would Fernando have to say about it all ?
18 But what would Tolby tell them ?
19 But what would Gemma want to eat if she had the choice ?
20 Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ?
21 It also has to figure out how to take it to market , yet officials still claim no decision 's been reached on whether they 'll OEM it at all .
22 I explained as succinctly as I could Archie 's difficulty .
23 Well , no , you can not breed Killifish as you would Zebra Danios or Angelfish and it 's true that some are best left to the specialist .
24 He had gone out of her life suddenly and without explanation and try as she might Theresa simply could not get over losing him .
25 Power did count in the end , though , for try as she might Mills could not contain the might of Italy 's Emanuela Pierantozzi , the European champion , who stood a head taller and reached over with a powerful grip .
26 People with mental disorder can not act like consumers in the ordinary sense of the word because of the nature of their problems — they can not , for example , forsake the NHS for another service as they might McDonalds for Burger King — but we can , nevertheless , devise ways of listening to what they have to say and ensuring their voices are heard .
27 Be that as it may Dentdale certainly is , as I have said , the bonniest of all the Dales and Dent village , with its cobbled streets and whitewashed houses , the bonniest of all the Dale villages .
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