Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 6 | While the Capital Guarantee Bond may be a fairly simple product it more or less requires us to go through the same process as all other new products . |
| 7 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 8 | Extending the term by five years or so means you have to pay out less each month . |
| 9 | Thirdly , the Convention may be silent both as to the substance of a particular issue and as to the law by which it is to be determined , in which case it is a question of construction whether the Convention covers the point or merely leaves it to be dealt with under the law applicable under the conflicts rules of the forum . |
| 10 | Just as successful on the flat or over jumps I think this is a very very worthy winner our congratulations to Mary Reevley and I 'm gon na get her on the show and present the prize to her . |
| 11 | Oh yes , if they want to come it does n't matter if it 's convenient to you or not does it ! |
| 12 | vivid description of him or not does it ? |
| 13 | Whereas if the teacher just does n't mark it , just gives a comment , or just ticks it , I tend to get lazy . |
| 14 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 15 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 16 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 17 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 18 | This does not mean that the applicant can not let the house , but if she sells it , or simply uses it as a second home , she may have to pay back the whole or part of the grant with interest . |
| 19 | Anything going on in the outdoors which interests , irritates or simply makes you laugh ? |
| 20 | Anything going on in the outdoors which interests , irritates or simply makes you laugh ? |
| 21 | Anything going on in the outdoors which interests , irritates or simply makes you laugh ? |
| 22 | Anything going on in the outdoors which interests , irritates or simply makes you laugh ? |
| 23 | Only once or twice has he taunted me with what sounds like the interesting sport of going into the gents in the Cauldhame Arms ( or anywhere else , I suppose ) and attacking the drowned fag-ends in the urinals with a stream of piss . |
| 24 | It treats it as a specific object of investigation , or else ignores it . |
| 25 | Where he finds beauty and pleasure in male animals , he asserts their masculinity very vehemently , or else denies it . |
| 26 | A person ‘ publishes ’ an article when he sells it , or otherwise distributes it by giving it away , letting it on hire or lending it . |
| 27 | Erm you might think that all graphs always look like that , or bits of graphs are always like that , or where does it all tie in ? |
| 28 | If the owner does not resist the taking of his property , or actually hands it over , because of , for example , threats of violence , in one sense it could be said that there is ‘ consent : ’ yet the offence of robbery , as defined in section 8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , involves , as one of its elements , theft . |
| 29 | Obviously intact err , just if somebody kicks it or accidentally drops them or something . |
| 30 | This does not , of course , necessarily justify further departures from principle , nor indeed does it justify a departure quite as significant as that contained in the 1985 Act . |