Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all or nothing on this one ! |
| 2 | If you have chosen bread to make up sandwiches , use only the thinnest scrape of fat ( preferably a polyunsaturated margarine or nothing at all ) . |
| 3 | Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement . |
| 4 | The best time to do this is first thing in the morning , after going to the bathroom , wearing your night clothes or nothing at all , but keep it the same every day . |
| 5 | ‘ Now it 's a Brahmin , or nothing at all — which would be simpler . ’ |
| 6 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 7 | Did it mean something , or nothing at all ? |
| 8 | Or nothing at all ? |
| 9 | It 's either all or nothing at all down there . |
| 10 | And by now it was all or nothing for both teams … |
| 11 | They saw little or nothing of each other . |
| 12 | He compares the suggested scenario with a group of people who have boxes ; in each box there is something ( or nothing in some , perhaps ) and each calls what is in his box his ‘ beetle ’ . |
| 13 | They ai n't got no lights on or nothing like that , but they 're real nice all the same . |
| 14 | " Oh do n't get the wrong idea — I was n't driven on to the streets through grief , or nothing like that . |
| 15 | But you would n't have er you would n't have easy chairs or nothing like that . |
| 16 | Can you not stick a band on pretty soon or nothing like that ? |
| 17 | There was no dole or nothing like this they had . |
| 18 | Or me in this unusual situation . |
| 19 | Or someone before that ? |
| 20 | But say it 's your mother , or your probation officer or someone like that , it 's all right . |
| 21 | What about James or someone like that ? |
| 22 | Er well I mean I want to find from A T S or someone like that how much their cars would cost |
| 23 | ‘ There 's something or someone in that damn barn . |
| 24 | ‘ Back to the '20s or '30s or somethin' like that . |
| 25 | Normally I 'd wan na come off when I 'd run outa money and I 'd got nothing else to do 'cos I 've never gone robbin' or anythin' like that . |
| 26 | He could n't make her out , or himself for that matter . |
| 27 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 28 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 29 | basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next |
| 30 | I mean , I 've got figures here produced by Shelter , probably some sort of pinko left Labour party front like the L G I O or somebody like that . |