Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chart may also help parents recognize that the problem is not as bad as they thought or that finally they can demonstrate the seriousness of the problem . |
| 2 | or and apparently he 'd lost a strip . |
| 3 | or and then we used to have some gorgeous lamps that er we used to get in Chelsea that it was fasten on the wall and the lamp would come over on the shade , down and completely change , do you remember that ? |
| 4 | I mean you I do n't know if they 're dead or alive or and then it said see the next one , next week . |
| 5 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 6 | ‘ I have a business engagement , ’ she excused , and wondered for a moment if Lubor had guessed that her business engagement for that evening was with his employer , or if perhaps he already knew from some office discussion with him that she was dining with Ven ? |
| 7 | He wondered if Alexei was angry because he had been beaten again , or if maybe he was beginning to realise that there was no way , short of an accident , that he was ever going to be allowed to win . |
| 8 | Er one wonders how on earth they speak to each other , or if indeed they even know who each other is or where their offices are and there is n't that personal relationship that one might expect to find in the normal concept of a legal firm and indeed er without clearly we go to off the point somewhat to have a discussion as to whether or not er a partnership is a suitable legal entity for these people to trade under . |
| 9 | Their hair was uniformly black , and cut short , seriously short , or if long it was spiky and rigid , sticking up and out and sideways , like a handful of needles , rather than hanging down . |
| 10 | Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe . |
| 11 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 12 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 13 | And before Robbie could decide whether to deny the source of the gift or whether perhaps it would be safer to agree , Fen continued his speculative monologue . |
| 14 | Where as now they |
| 15 | Here the parachutes are of a different design , less easily guided and the team land on or as near they can to a four hundred metre line from two thousand feet . |
| 16 | would be grate , okay , and the same thing for next page , this is the day I started which , like maybe tomorrow or next day or when ever you start it Wednesday , I started at ten o'clock in the morning , was I , I was in Woking , what was I doing nothing just reading a , do whatever you have to put in your whatever you , |
| 17 | Ignore it cos the man might just leave him in there renting it until or when forever it goes up . |
| 18 | All types of medicines reputed to be the equal of branded goods except that generally they were just a load of rubbish . |
| 19 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 20 | ‘ Just the usual bookkeeping , except that here we are involved with two separate establishments . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's pretty much like the procedure at any hospital when an emergency crops up , except that here we tend to use a little more subtlety . |
| 22 | A rather similar phantasy informs the divide-and-rule thesis except that here it is the ruling class whose power is both all-pervasive , and works to sow the seeds of rivalry amongst those ‘ brothers and sisters ’ subjected to its tyrannical will . |
| 23 | Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad . |
| 24 | Except that already it is not quite that simple , since the post-modern sophisticate is also the critic of these other , negative ways of relating to the other ; he or she is the one who diagnoses their social and psychic economies . |
| 25 | And there is much more advice that I did not take in , except that later I remember it when a new situation arises . |
| 26 | ‘ Except that later I shall have to tell your Uncle Matthew . |
| 27 | Except that now he 'd stolen the cup Crazy Jake , their father , had given her . |
| 28 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 29 | I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there . |
| 30 | Every morning I climbed into the BMW and swept off , just as Dennis had once done , except that once I reached the Banbury Road I had nowhere to go . |