Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 2 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 5 | ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Should I stay out of the sun ? |
| 8 | All the way to the station she asked it , Shall I jump out of the car at the next light and run ? |
| 9 | shall I finish off after the break ? |
| 10 | Now can I remember about after the timber mill ? |
| 11 | I could n't look at them ; nor could I look back into the room . |
| 12 | Will I step up to the cottage for another bottle , or will you , or shall we go without ? |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ |
| 14 | Can I , yeah , can I go on to the application if I may Chairman ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Do I go down through the garden ? |
| 17 | Giving Hilary a cheeky grin , he asked his mother , ‘ Can I go down to the village ? ’ |
| 18 | I mean , yeah , but how can I go out without the car that 's the trouble , but many car drivers |
| 19 | ‘ Why should I go out on a day like this ? ’ she asked . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Can I come up for a moment ? ’ |
| 22 | May I come in for a moment ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Shall I come down in the car for you tomorrow ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | can I come back to the question if , you see if you do n't answer it I 'll repeat it , you as the person responsible for the figures would be anxious to make sure they were reaching the public accurately |
| 28 | Could I come back to the point about the twenty seven million passengers or some of I 'm not exactly , but I know it 's a lot , erm figure , it 's large number figure , as a num an extra number of cars . |
| 29 | Cos how many things did I put in for the thingums in the draws in Asda . |
| 30 | ‘ Shall I get on with the letters ? ’ |