Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had eaten little or nothing most of the day . |
| 2 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 3 | This involves you or someone else in a chain with you being paid by goods , services or benefits , instead of in real money . |
| 4 | If she is to come to live with you , or someone else in the family , consideration should be given to arranging this along the lines mentioned in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | Your child may need to know because you or someone else in the family is ill , or because he or she has HIV or AIDS . |
| 6 | Everyone will recognise themselves or somebody else in the song . |
| 7 | And you 'd expect some broken headlights or something here on the road . |
| 8 | But she wished the silly sod would look at somebody or something else for a change . |
| 9 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 10 | I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief . |
| 11 | Perhaps your correspondent could enlighten us as to the best method of preventing unwanted teenage pregnancy , bearing in mind that young people will always form sexual relationships , regardless of the wishes of their parents or anyone else to the contrary . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure that Hogan or anyone else at the top of the game could have withstood such punishment without seeking help . |
| 13 | He insisted : ‘ There was no fall-out with Glentoran 's new manager Rob Strain — or anyone else at The Oval . |
| 14 | Put in its simplest way , the principle of inverse irreversibility means that a scientist , or anyone else in the business of forming some general ‘ law ’ by which the Universe , or a very large portion of it , is governed , will view his law in direct inverse proportion to the amount and weight of evidence against it . |
| 15 | If you do n't want yourself , or anyone else in the family , to be one of those statistics in the next three minutes , then the answer lies in your own hands . |
| 16 | I would like to have more information from the County , or anyone else from the table for that matter , how this figure 's going to be split , clearly P P G requires it to be split between district , and I 'd like to see it split on that basis . |
| 17 | Modern genetic engineers already have the technology to write the New Testament or anything else into a bacterium 's DNA . |
| 18 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
| 19 | The basic idea of The Blind Watchmaker is that we do n't need to postulate a designer in order to understand life , or anything else in the universe . |
| 20 | He was monstrous , violent , wrapped in some kind of vengeance that seemed to have nothing to do with her or her love for him or anything else in the world she knew . |
| 21 | The , what we are proposing will by no means , create ghettos or or anything else within the housing stock any more than today 's policies are doing anyway . |
| 22 | The or , or anything so at the moment . |
| 23 | ‘ Some fools consider that nothing apart from the body exists , because movement arises from the body . |
| 24 | It will be evident that nothing parallel to the stage which is reached in the woman 's life can take place in men , and the phrase is meaningless . |
| 25 | Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play . |
| 26 | This was the first time that everyone else on the station at that time became aware of the danger , and they could only watch helplessly as the child stood petrified with fright between the rails . |
| 27 | Any impression of calm and harmony is down to the fact that everyone close to the band has obviously passed the Krypton Factor -sponsored How To Tolerate Courtney test . |
| 28 | Such is our penetration of the market that someone somewhere in the world uses an HTFS program to design a heat exchanger every minute of the day . ’ |
| 29 | And , he was an old enough hand to know that nobody else in the room wanted to know the answer . |
| 30 | She was not all that sure that things were turning out so well with Nicky , but she was ready to admit that everything else about the south was idyllic . |