Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He wore a blazer , not unlike the one Lord Woodleigh wore except that instead of discreet brass buttons it was decorated by no fewer than five enormous , tinselly affairs . |
2 | And that would have been a lot better than and then after that rabbit , I went and did the car . |
3 | With further reference to the Toll-gate , it may be stated that the general traffic on the road , even in 1828–9 , was but little , and that scarcely on any occasion was the Keeper required to sit up late . |
4 | We know he was envied and bullied by his fellow pupils and that even at that age he had the gift of healing — restoring a robin which had been cruelly killed by his fellow students . ’ |
5 | To be drunk will be recognized as a symptom not of manliness but of extreme unhappiness , and since only on rare occasion do we want to broadcast the fact of our unhappiness to the world , the lager lout , the whisky soak , the sherry drunk will become a rarer and rarer phenomenon , until finally withering away . |
6 | On other occasions , both before and shortly after that visit , you made work which revealed your enthusiasm for other American interests : its space programme , its fashion , Detroit , Kennedy and Hollywood . |