Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Midland Bank 's small business and branch managers have been issued with a business information guide to help them better understand the needs of people wishing to set up a bookshop or specialist comic shop .
2 It 's blown up into some kind of news story , so I better check the bulletins .
3 I just turn , I think I better tidy the room up that night .
4 I better take the tab out the video otherwise he 'll erase it !
5 I better have the dishwasher going .
6 Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ?
7 Did I not stop the lorry by the power of Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) ? ’
8 Would I or would I not welcome the security of a rope ?
9 I thought for thought for fifteen minutes I was er should I or should I not join the company .
10 But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true .
11 Can I just make the point that we are due to pay the next erm , annual subscription for this guarantee .
12 Can I just make the point of clarification in what said there , that as far as staffing additional works spread through for example we are assuming that staff costs are within the figures you are looking at and the the work that was referring to was was after you made your decision to will need to take some element of that cost into the start of the budget there is no staff figures that would occur after you 've formalised this budget we are not aware of so there there will be .
13 the track as such , can I just explain the position on the
14 Can I just answer the phone ?
15 Can I just answer the question I , I dodged ?
16 Can I just change the picture in closing thinking of harvest is not just the harvest that we reap for ourselves , the benefits that we get , but Jesus said also , he said , you look on the fields , they 're white all ready to harvest .
17 Well I tell him he must go , and if he does n't I just open the door wide to let the cigarette smell out and erm course then he as I say , I ca n't tell you what he calls me , but erm
18 Can I just pinch the Debs on back again ?
19 Will I just pout the gel on or
20 we can , can I just rub the lipstick off the end of your nose , where I kissed you ?
21 Can I just take the panel back through the er l back to basics on this matter in terms of the Greater in terms of Greater York and the the areas searched , firstly I think the first point of fact , there 's no part of that sector as far as I 'm aware that 's subject to any landscape designations either national or local .
22 Can I just take the numbers off those forms ?
23 Can I just query the cost of Cloverfield Hospice , I just wondered why that was so much more expensive than the others ?
24 Can I just put the point that it stands at the moment .
25 Er could I just ask the advice of the assembled expertise here ?
26 Yeah Can I just flick the light on for a second ?
27 It is in my mind that this last outrage can not be allowed to pass , nor can I longer leave the handling of the affair to Prince Henry or his advisers .
28 ‘ How , I wondered , would I ever win the Nobel Prize ?
29 My only hope , should I ever see the show again , would be to cling-film the whole face and fasten it below the chin with a Twist'n Seal .
30 They offered me considerable incentives to take up the role of figurehead in the new Whaddon regime ; unlimited and free use of Tilley 's taxis between 2.30 and 4.15 on Tuesday afternoons and generous discounts should I ever need the cat coiffured .
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