Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 2 | There must be a world of delight beyond Roundhay , where Victor Sylvester always plays and all the men are gentlemanly and such wonderful dancers and my mother spinturns for ever in their arms or elegantly allows them to light her cigarette . |
| 3 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 4 | She kept the pregnancy to herself — or rather kept it from herself , and from everyone else , for too long . |
| 5 | Jack did not like flowers , or rather said he was ‘ bothered ’ by them , and they were banished from the upstairs rooms . |
| 6 | Barth introduces seven correspondents , or rather reintroduces them since they are all figures from his earlier works , and Barth himself is projected into the fiction as an updated form of ‘ Mr. B. ’ , Pamela 's seducer in Richardson 's novel . |
| 7 | There were grey areas in what she had told him — or rather allowed him to believe . |
| 8 | Truth is covered up , buried , and he comes and unburies the truth or rather shows us how we can unbury that truth within ourselves , shows us the tools we must use . |
| 9 | This they call the " balanced slate " , and their insistent message is that whereas under our present system a vote for a party is a vote for just one candidate regardless of his precise political stance , the operation of the STV would allow a party , or rather oblige it , to put up a spread of candidates embracing and representing all the factions it supposedly includes . |
| 10 | There is also much unnecessary hardship and fear and pain caused by man to animals in the way we breed them , market them , or eventually kill them in an abattoir . |
| 11 | Well , thank you very much er , Geoffrey , erm that was a very full , and I think er , and as he says , cautious account of what 's been happening , and he does remind me of all the finance officers that I 've ever known , in this thing , I 've never really seen , or rarely seen them smile . |
| 12 | Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did . |
| 13 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 14 | There is no tort or crime , as there would be if the police were to beat up the suspect or wrongly apprehend him or her in the first place . |
| 15 | Or do n't or manually type it in . |
| 16 | During its setup , it detects any sound drivers you have installed — you need Windows 3.1 or better to run it and 286 users will , I 'm afraid , miss out on all of this , since you need a 386sx or better in order to run Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode — so that when Johnny goes about his business you hear his grunts and groans the screech of seagulls , the lapping of the waves and so on . |
| 17 | All products from the jungle are shared equally among members of the large house , while garden products and artifacts are privately owned by the individuals whose labour produces them ( or literally creates them ; see below ) . |
| 18 | For instance , a canned food processor would not normally consider selling through mail order unless the company was providing a very specialist type of food or perhaps providing it as part of a hamper pack . |
| 19 | In this case , the human indexer will be provided with the terms not recognized by the computer , and must decide whether to list them in the golist or the stoplist , or perhaps to leave them unlisted so that they will be output for human indexer consideration on each occurrence . |
| 20 | For a frustrated moment Maria suspected him of doing it deliberately , to punish her , or perhaps to teach her some sort of lesson . |
| 21 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 22 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 23 | if you want to comment on any of those while we 're going through , or perhaps cross them off your list . |
| 24 | Indeed , the fashion in many quarters is to ponder whether the West possesses the discipline and finesse to ‘ manage ’ the USSR 's decline — or perhaps accelerate it . |
| 25 | He looked at the fire hard enough to dry out his eyeballs , or perhaps to singe them . |
| 26 | Obviously in practice the lenders must look for better returns than this ( for example by working their collectors harder or perhaps paying them less ) , which of course only serves to emphasise that their rates of charge are far from profiteering . |
| 27 | And so it is necessary to ask how we are to transform the distinction commonly drawn between arts and sciences , or perhaps replace it , deep though it goes in the structure of our educational curriculum . |
| 28 | And that would more or less sterilize it , as sterilized as you 'd , you know , you could ever get anything . |
| 29 | Most of the 16-year-olds say their fathers have more or less told them to ‘ go out and have a good time ’ . |
| 30 | Bernard more or less told me . |