Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least let me stay here for a while until I get my head clear . ’ |
| 2 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 3 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 4 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 5 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 6 | ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury . |
| 7 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 8 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 9 | ‘ May I stay here for a pot of tea ? ’ |
| 10 | Should I stay out of the sun ? |
| 11 | All the way to the station she asked it , Shall I jump out of the car at the next light and run ? |
| 12 | shall I finish off after the break ? |
| 13 | Now can I remember about after the timber mill ? |
| 14 | I could n't look at them ; nor could I look back into the room . |
| 15 | Will I step up to the cottage for another bottle , or will you , or shall we go without ? |
| 16 | I 've been so hoping you would soon be ready to join Brownies , but how can I pass over to a Brownie Guider a girl who wo n't lend a hand without being given something first and who does n't know the first thing about being obedient ? ’ |
| 17 | Can I , yeah , can I go on to the application if I may Chairman ? |
| 18 | Why did n't I go straight to the Star Council ? ’ |
| 19 | Er at the risk of upsetting everybody again , can I go back to the point which has been made by North Yorkshire on this summary sheet here . |
| 20 | Do I go down through the garden ? |
| 21 | Giving Hilary a cheeky grin , he asked his mother , ‘ Can I go down to the village ? ’ |
| 22 | I mean , yeah , but how can I go out without the car that 's the trouble , but many car drivers |
| 23 | ‘ Why should I go out on a day like this ? ’ she asked . |
| 24 | Can I pick up on a point that you 've just made Mr Sedgewick and also points made by those on your right about exceptions and presumptions . |
| 25 | Can I come up for a moment ? ’ |
| 26 | May I come in for a moment ? |
| 27 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 28 | If I 've had a big bill , occasionally I 've had to say to my mum ‘ I 've no money left , can I come down for the week ? ’ and I 've had to go down there . |
| 29 | Shall I come down in the car for you tomorrow ? ’ |
| 30 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |