Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where exactly do you hail from , Hugo ? ’ |
| 2 | Where exactly do you establish its boundaries , when most of the well-known definitions , turn out to be legally and politically meaningless ? |
| 3 | And where exactly do you live ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So where exactly do I fit into all this ? ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , the only question seemed to be whether he should even bother to make a move , or just let her do everything for him . |
| 6 | I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen |
| 7 | The DTI sets out two options : abolition without replacement , and replacement by a ‘ compilation report ’ by an independent and suitably qualified accountant ( stating compliance with legislation and that the company is eligible for exemption ) with a directors ' declaration which , under two options , could simply state their obligations or also attest they have kept proper records and prepared accounts to give a true and fair view — and so , as the DTI warns , expose them to civil liability and weaken their statutory defences . |
| 8 | I am almost tempted to produce some enormous prize for any bookseller who can furnish me with a list of the shortlisted titles , or even let me know if they have the winning title in stock : I feel confident that I would have no takers . |
| 9 | There are so many others who have good reasons but who do n't hate like you do , who do n't keep it up , who can forget , do something else , or even use it to achieve something . |
| 10 | This will make the operations of poachers that much more difficult , or even force them to pack it in altogether . |
| 11 | How does he know — or how do we know — that they are right ? |
| 12 | I think it 's almost like asking somebody the question how do you decide what you 're interested in , or how do you decide what 's worrying you or upsetting you , or pleasing you . |
| 13 | Where abouts do you live then ? |
| 14 | So fascinated was he , that only occasionally did he remember to touch her , only once or twice interrupt her to bend and kiss her lips , and forgot completely his need for a cigarette . |
| 15 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 16 | You can either call the dog to you or else leave it sitting and return to it . |
| 17 | Or again suppose we overhear the following exchange : ( 26 ) A : How did Harry fare in court the other day ? |
| 18 | Or why do you speak with her ? |
| 19 | Then that little fawn you shot last night wo n't feel lonely in the museum . " |
| 20 | ‘ Though of course there was also that long leave he had towards the end of the war . ’ |
| 21 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 22 | Talk about jumping the gun — the machines are n't even announced for another three weeks , but Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site . |
| 23 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 24 | The thing that 's suggested just to sort of er bring that round to you to you know rather than just have me speaking , is to suggest that er if I start a sentence er perhaps you know people could join in with the finish of that sentence , you know . |
| 25 | ‘ By expanding Eastham Country Park we will at least be making use of the land for the benefit of the people of Wirral rather than just have it lying there . ’ |
| 26 | Excepting that er it might be the fact that always have we had what I would term an an outside trade . |
| 27 | She did nor immediately help her to get her things together , but sat on the side of the bed and drew Millie towards her , saying , ‘ It 's a sorry day , child . |
| 28 | Well I still think that well say you have a big massive thing and , and say it 'd take a hundred people mm er I suppose the bigger it is the more economical it is . |
| 29 | That 's it now that how do you spell ask ? |
| 30 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |