Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I have a choice between working for a nice man who let's me get on with my work in my own way and as far as possible on my own initiative and a difficult woman , then I 'm not going to hesitate , am I ? ’ |
| 2 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 3 | As a personal contribution to the stability of British industry ( who on earth invented that one ? ) may I pass on a few nuggets of advice : |
| 4 | May I pass on to him some of the comments made to me by people I know in Belfast ? |
| 5 | May I walk along with you ? ’ asked Mrs Dare , and fell into step beside her . |
| 6 | May I walk along with you ? ’ |
| 7 | May I walk along with you ? |
| 8 | ‘ Then may I carry on , please ? |
| 9 | May I move on please to the next paper ? |
| 10 | ‘ May I sit down ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ May I … may I sit down ? ’ |
| 12 | He heard himself say : ‘ May I sit down ? ’ |
| 13 | Please , may I sit down ? " |
| 14 | May I sit down ? ’ |
| 15 | You , you were n't auto sort of automatically allowed out till ten you had to go to the office and say , please may I stay out till ten . |
| 16 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 17 | Please may I get down from the table ? |
| 18 | Please may I get down from the table ? |
| 19 | Please may I get down from the table ? |
| 20 | Please may I get down ? |
| 21 | May I look in about eleven ? ’ |
| 22 | SIR — In answer to Martyn Harris 's recent suggestion that the tie was a passing fashion fad , may I point out that on March 30 the tie celebrated its 106th birthday , and its popularity is as high as ever . |
| 23 | SIR — Having read each of Sebastian Faulks 's ‘ Essex Watch ’ articles , may I point out that Essex Man noted that Kinnock is an atheist and that Major is a cricketer . |
| 24 | But may I point out to you , Dr. Briant , that I for one — and I think it likely that the audience feels much as I do — find the material you are giving us in so admirably concise and ordered a manner is not as intelligible as it might be , since we are ordinary simple souls ? |
| 25 | And incidentally may I point out that the proper term for the external female genitalia is vulva . |
| 26 | ‘ May I point out that you 're sitting on his shoulder , not him on yours , ’ said the Thing . |
| 27 | May I point out that we have n't had a monarch in residence here since sixteen hundred and three . |
| 28 | Lucy said , ‘ May I point out that even if she 's here I doubt that she 'll be well enough ? |
| 29 | With regard to collections in Scotland and the housing of those collections , may I point out that many of us living in the west of Scotland are opposed to the building of a national art gallery in Edinburgh ? |
| 30 | May I point out , however , that it is not only for the convenience of passing citizens that mentally ill people should be cleared from the streets ? |