Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | I wish you and everyone else at the school every success in the future . |
| 24 | And as long as this country persists in being the only one in Europe which does n't have a subsidised railway service , Barbara and everyone else with a car will continue to be put off going by rail . |
| 25 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
| 26 | Obstructing you and everyone else in the place , come to that . |
| 27 | and er , we were like , we was on about , you know like we were talking about the education system and everything in English and you know I told you they were on about people changing at eleven and everyone else in the class wanted the thirteen system except me , it 's only cos what they 're used |
| 28 | Forget the cameras and everyone else in the studio and talk to and look at the interviewer or the members of the panel . |
| 29 | , and everyone else in the group . |
| 30 | For although his authority was supreme , he preferred to regard himself not as a dictator but as a partner , acting together with directors , players and everyone else in the club in a common purpose . |