Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are famous figures , Churchill at Chartwell , Kipling at Bateman 's and Wolfe at Quebec House , and wonderful views — over the rolling Weald from Emmetts , the highest point in Kent , and of France from South Foreland Lighthouse — and do n't forget the Trust protects long lengths of coastline including 4.5 miles of the famous White Cliffs , as well as acres of open countryside and woodland where everyone can walk completely free of charge . |
| 2 | Take lots of care , & I 'll phone sometime soon |
| 3 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 4 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 5 | And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier , and the book had suddenly reached the stage — the wonderful moment to get to — where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created , and listen to people talking and watch them moving , all apparently independent of me . |
| 6 | So it was easy , I was bathing in a calm sea where I could swim freely ; you ca n't swim freely when you get tangled up in roots . |
| 7 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 8 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 9 | The navigator had survived with head injuries but the third crew member was O.K. I signalled to Athens asking them to designate the nearest airfield where I could pick up Brown and White in a Maryland . |
| 10 | We had another seventy miles till London and at least another fifteen until the next junction where I could get out . |
| 11 | where I will bring in my vast postcard collection |
| 12 | ‘ A room with lots of good natural light , and a large table where I can spread out my things . |
| 13 | ‘ If I cry , he gets so angry that I ca n't bear it ’ , said another , ‘ and I go away and find somewhere by myself where I can go on crying ’ . |
| 14 | By the way , is there somewhere where I can freshen up ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So my own cottage on the Donegal shore where I can slip away when I 'm not filming is the answer . |
| 16 | I got to cross the road , but I ca n't see no green man thing where I can cross safely . |
| 17 | ‘ I know it sounds absurd , but please do it for me or I might go out of my mind again , and really smash the living daylights out of him ! ’ |
| 18 | Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it . |
| 19 | ‘ Piss on your XPDs , ’ I croak , ‘ and give me a swig of that fizzy water fast or I 'll disintegrate messily all over your in-tray . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Stop fighting or I 'll go completely crazy … ! ’ |
| 21 | and yet when it , in er , when say comes round or I 'll go round you do n't look at all that much alike |
| 22 | ‘ Something has to be sorted out quickly or I 'll go back to Newcastle and see if anyone else is interested . |
| 23 | The response was , ‘ Never , or I 'll wind up in Diamond Hell , ’ a weird Buddhist allusion . |
| 24 | You 'll need plenty , this time of year , or I 'll stink out the hall . |
| 25 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
| 26 | Or I 'll , or I 'll turn up |
| 27 | ‘ Now get out of my way , or I 'll ride over you . |
| 28 | ‘ Either you tell me , or I 'll march right over to his room and ask him . ’ |
| 29 | But we 'll be told beforehand , or I 'll find out . |
| 30 | You bring him back tomorrow or I 'll get on to the police . ’ |