Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
2 | you see , he , he he can he cancelled cos his name came up and then he cancelled and he never heard anything and went a bit er we told him about Doreen , he said , oh I better go down and see what 's happened er he went down and then about three minutes later he got this erm card yes er , this week to say that come in , but , before you come in ring to see if there 's a bed . |
3 | My , I better go down and get cling film I suppose . |
4 | What , shall I just go in and say can I have all your houses that 's under forty thousand , forty thousand and under , yeah ? |
5 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
6 | Shall I shall I just write off and send them like pound or donation and a few leaflets could |
7 | But I just fled rather than talk to her . |
8 | Cash is overwhelmingly in sterling erm , can I just look up and remind my erm , refresh me on that . |
9 | May I simply go ahead and ask ? ’ |
10 | Why should I meekly sit down and take her schoolmistressly primness like a naughty boy . |
11 | Should I then speak out and invite martyrdom ? |
12 | After I have cut , straightened and sharpened the stakes I put them away to dry out and stiffen — to season — before they are used . |
13 | He told me just to run around and do some starts , which is the way I guess most athletes begin when they join a club . |
14 | ‘ If the dog wants to go out , had n't you better get up and take her ? ’ |
15 | Do you normally stay here or do you go away ? |
16 | Why do n't you just piss off and leave me alone . |
17 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
18 | Why do n't you just give up and go back down to London ? |
19 | Do you just drift along and accept what comes your way , rather than having specific goals that you are working towards in life ? |
20 | Do you just sit around and wait for inspiration ? ’ |
21 | ‘ Why do n't you just sit down and tell me the whole story from the beginning . ’ |
22 | Yeah , why do n't you just sit down and have our drink first . |
23 | Would you just sit there and allow your neighbour 's tree to grow to a size S 1 that inflicts a huge cost on you ? |
24 | Can you just get up and look under your seat for me for a moment ? |
25 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
26 | Would she just move away and forget ? |
27 | But why does n't she just shut up and get on with it , like everybody else ? |
28 | Can you possibly duck out and have coffee in the caff in ten minutes ? ’ |
29 | ‘ Why do n't you both come over and have a cup of tea some time ? ’ he suggests . |
30 | " Well , Becky , will you please go off and do your homework ? " |