Example sentences of "and [vb base] [modal v] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll walk into a French bank and say can I exchange these back to sterling and they 'll say oh yes and then charge me five hundred fucking francs again or whatever it is. no five nines , nine eighteen twenty seven thirty six forty five francs . |
| 2 | You put these people on oxygen therapy for days and days and days , they come off and say can I have a cigarette ? |
| 3 | Do n't mean you can come up to me and say can I have ten grams of smack please Cassie all right . |
| 4 | That 's right , I mean you , you looked in , in , in , if you had a fire out in the sticks somewhere , you 'd look to see where the telephone was , where if there were any , and then knock on somebody 's door perhaps , at two o'clock in the morning and say can I use your telephone , and they were n't very happy sometimes I can tell you . |
| 5 | I 'm not stopping people doing it , because people ring me up and say should I do it ? |