Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have n't got any cash or nothing small banging in something . |
| 2 | Some manufacturers now charge little or nothing extra for diesel . |
| 3 | When Ronald Gregory , the ex-chief constable of West Yorkshire , said little or nothing new about the ‘ Yorkshire Ripper case ’ in a series of newspaper articles , he was castigated in Police Review ( 1 July 1983 ) and they republished a 1979 photograph of him when ‘ his loyalty was unquestioned ’ . |
| 4 | Federman 's first novel Double Or Nothing 1971 ) is a narrative about preparing to narrate , where the different persons named in the text personify different compositional procedures . |
| 5 | The outer northern rel relief road does nothing to reduce those flows or nothing significant to reduce those flows on Wetherby Road . |
| 6 | The metaphor does not in itself debase the theatre , and although Shakespeare is using plays and actors to present insincerity or hypocrisy that does not make him or them corrupt : the medium is not the same as the message . |
| 7 | Oh I 've not got a prawn and cocktail or them little tiny fish nanny had . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 9 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 10 | On the contrary , God gives men so many reasons to have lack of trust ( calamities , uncertainties , loss of hope ) that it could be said that God actually illustrates that trust in something or someone beneficial is not to be erected on happiness or good experiences alone . ’ |
| 11 | And sometimes , leaving his office , he would close his door in such a way that there seemed to be something or someone intriguing behind it , as Richard Miller noticed when he went to talk to him about banking for the contras ; it was deliberately stage-like , impressive . |
| 12 | Or someone curious to see just how far his retarded egghead act will allow him to go ? |
| 13 | There is however another sense in which we are all grieving people , because at some stage or another we will have lost something or someone significant . |
| 14 | They fear victimization especially if the harasser is their boss or someone senior to them . |
| 15 | This county is one that for quite a long time has had the policies , I think it 's it 's E it 's number eleven E E eleven is it or I eleven |
| 16 | with my new man or my new freedom . |
| 17 | I consider playing the hand-held I bought in Inverness but I 'm either not hooked on it yet or my jaded palate has produced game-boredom already . |
| 18 | They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule . |
| 19 | I must be quiet ; they must not hear my heart thumping or my involuntary gasp . |
| 20 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he or my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment had a meeting with business leaders to discuss the policy of the minimum wage , they would tell both the House and the country what business leaders had to say about the damaging effect on jobs that such a minimum wage would have ? |
| 21 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 22 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 23 | Not one leaf is to go out of the garden until either I or my chief taster gives the order . " |
| 24 | I was never really good at pretending that I could assume my client to be innocent because I or my instructing solicitor had been careful to ensure that he did n't actually confess . |
| 25 | Not something that the press , my mother or my estranged wife had any influence over . |
| 26 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 27 | If it helps , I 'm reputed to look like the big-nosed frog we love to hate , and I 'll probably be wearing my yobby green bomber jacket , or my blue one with WEST VIRGINIA on the back in letters that are visible from Leeds . |
| 28 | But then there is always the danger that these crazy policemen and judges might succeed in hanging me or my nearest and dearest . |
| 29 | Serve dessert wines with a slice of Christmas cake , pudding , or my two desserts . |
| 30 | Without any consideration for my talents — such as they were — or my own wishes — never expressed — he had decided my path . |