Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I have dreamed it as a six-year-old ? |
| 2 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 3 | Can I put fuck you on a caption do you think ? |
| 4 | but you might you know miss it by a week and got three months , two months , three weeks at the most |
| 5 | He is over in Lewes unfortunately , but he did offer so to do , er which I think would you know put you in a more informed position to pursue the matter with this committee . |
| 6 | ‘ How would you like to join us for a while ? |
| 7 | ‘ Would you like to join us on a walk ? ’ they asked . |
| 8 | But would she like to do it with a stranger and one so strange as Leon who came , not just from ten miles off , but a thousand ? |
| 9 | Would she have told it in a different way ? |
| 10 | Would she have to face him across a court and wrangle with him in public over custody of Kirsty ? |
| 11 | Did you have to spend it by a certain time or |
| 12 | As he was mental , I mean would you have taken him to a hospital or the station ? |
| 13 | Could you have labelled it in a way that would sort of help yourself more ? |
| 14 | ‘ Damn it , Kathleen , do n't you go using me as a shield . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you care to join us in a drink ? ’ he asked the barmaid . |
| 16 | Now that we have video in the classroom the opportunity to focus on the visual is clearly there , so should we attempt to include it in a systematic way ? |
| 17 | Shiona felt her control desert her for a moment . |
| 18 | Did they have to sit him in a swivel chair that swung sideways with every movement of his body ? |
| 19 | However , he already knew Joy and Alan , and the kettle was boiling , so I asked him to sit down , and would he like to join us in a coffin ? |
| 20 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 21 | ‘ If he wants to kill you , why would he arrange to see you in a restaurant with the whole world looking on ? ’ |
| 22 | Let us try to reduce it to a set of propositions as we did with extract ( 2 ) . |