Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 2 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 3 | Yeah , but thing is I mean , you know , there 's a lot of kids out there , I mean I 've know with , sort of , Lee 's friend you know , okay , with us I mean with Lee o okay we do n't I 've often said to him , why do n't you get a Saturday job ? |
| 4 | Yeah see I 've only got like erm two quid on me and I need to get home tomorrow and and I wo n't have anywhere to stay cos Dan and Honey are n't going and I 'd rather stick with them and Emma and Nick and just go back to erm Nick 's house |
| 5 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 6 | Well no nor do I do n't whiz about |
| 7 | I mean if you do n't , think , oh well I 'd I do n't want to be well it 's not the teachers fault cos you do n't get on ! |
| 8 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 9 | To punish me because he can see I do n't want to ? |
| 10 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 11 | No , I did n't think that , you see I do n't worry about that . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , if I ca n't choose something that 's actually there and I can try on , what chance would I have just looking at pictures ? ’ |
| 13 | Can I have just have about John Donne |
| 14 | How could I have possibly explained without hurting you that I could n't bear to be near you , because you no longer felt like my mother ? |
| 15 | Further to my letter of 19 May I have now heard from colleagues at the University of Waterloo in Canada , who have been instrumental in preparing the tape and are the owners of the copyright of PAT , the accessing software . |
| 16 | I ca n't get at the underside of my staircase ; how can I fix loose treads from above ? |
| 17 | Why on earth should I end up sitting by Heather ? |
| 18 | Will I forget how to speak to the audience ? |
| 19 | Do I start tomorrow looking for a new paper , because the Echo ca n't be doing with a man who lacks the bloody human touch ? |
| 20 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 21 | It makes me shudder now to think of it , how we waded into those strawberries and did n't suffer any ill effects afterwards . |
| 22 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm Jane Walsh — I hear you 've just moved in next door . ’ |
| 24 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 25 | Do you know how to multiply by ten normally ? |
| 26 | How did you know how to go about it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't you know how to speak to the King ? ’ |
| 28 | Do n't you know how to get to ? |
| 29 | ‘ Is there something you 've seen you do n't care for ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I 'll see you do n't suffer for this , Ellen . |