Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D Do you know do you know that Norfolk where the headquarters are where the incident room is , Norfolk have not had one reported incident to that forecourt watch , cos I spoke to the control staff , not had one to the force where it 's actually been centred . |
| 2 | Well alright he 's gon na turn left , er just pause let him clear and then follow the way t follow the way through . |
| 3 | He says do you know that they get cooked ham sandwiches and you get toast ? |
| 4 | We close with a cautionary note : one should bear in mind that a source of potential confusion always present is the fact that certain verbs lend themselves to occurrence with more than one type of adjectival construction , and to illustrate let us observe that any of the following , with their different modes of interpretation , are fully acceptable sentences of English : ( 72 ) Mackay preferred the picture stolen ( postnominal attributive ) ( 73 ) Shelagh prefers her holidays adventurous ( predicate qualifier ) ( 74 ) we prefer the king ( to be ) beheaded ( clausal ) |
| 5 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 6 | Never yes so I thought let them come and they wanted you to be there and then I could n't rid of I just could n't get them to change their minds you know they just wanted you there and I said |
| 7 | So when you 're asked do you believe that the entire gross national product should be spent on the N H S people say yes yes of course |
| 8 | He looks at me hard and says in a voice that can only be described as arch , ‘ Do you mean do I cry when I see children with flies round their eyes ? |
| 9 | What 's come out in the in the telephone call which you recorded was that er the father baby she is alleging is actually her own father what do you think do you think that puts her in any danger the fact that you 're making this public that the father may hear this . |
| 10 | I mean do you think that the actual cutting of the meat should be a managerial task ? |
| 11 | S so I mean do you try and u do you use things around the area ? |
| 12 | And got ta , do do you think that they were gon na accept it ? |
| 13 | Do you What do you do do you know if erm if you ever want to get to a phone to see a doctor or wh to get to a the doctor |
| 14 | Er , do do do you know if she 's likely to ha to have any timetable changes this term , do you know ? |
| 15 | Can you tell me then another side of this problem of abortion during the War is erm the problem of contraception then , erm I wonder do you think that people were n't aware of facilities for contraception then during the War ? |
| 16 | The years of battles and punishment that have not worked help them realize that keeping calm , ignoring slight misbehaviour , and rewarding appropriate behaviour are more effective ways of controlling their children and of having a more pleasant life . |
| 17 | She said let me know when you 're coming my love she said cos erm I do n't like cos I 'm on me own strangers and that |
| 18 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 19 | My Pete said , my Pete said do you mind that we sat at the table , I said yeah , that 's , that 's , that 's a |
| 20 | that was the first time we had an inkling there was anything , and that was the Sunday before we moved and he said do you mind if I come and bring the shed up and then I can stop in there and I go and have , a , anyway , he came with Alan and she made you a cup of coffee did n't she ? |
| 21 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 22 | Other people would hate that , it 's too restricting and er er and again it is , if you think about it , because if you 've got a , a regular date and you 're retired and something nice and exciting comes up , and that 's right in the middle of your , it bashes into your regular date , so then you have to say do I go or do I do or , or do n't I ? |
| 23 | Yeah , when it stops let me know cos I 'll turn it over . |
| 24 | So what compounds do you know that have carbon and oxygen in it . |
| 25 | Now I was gon na say do you feel that women are an integral part of the factory , there are a lot of women working in the factory , doing quite important jobs . |