Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Some expressed the fear that she would be humiliated if she carried on , or that even if she won she would be leading a demoralised party . |
2 | People who are not subject to the authority of the law may then obey the rules for prudential reasons , or because even though they have no duty to obey , disobedience will do more harm than good . |
3 | The bride , however , may speak instead of her husband or as well as him . |
4 | If you are worried about anything , particularly your pet or pets , then either before you go under the anaesthetic or as soon as you are conscious , ask the nurse to ring your neighbour and find out if they received your message and whether everything is all right . |
5 | ‘ They 'll have it tomorrow morning — or as soon as I 'm free to give it . ’ |
6 | The Regulation enters into force on 1 January 1993 or as soon as it is approved by the European Parliament , which should be the end of March . |
7 | I think ya mentioned that once before and I |
8 | So that if even if they reach through they 're going to have to break the lock just to get in . |
9 | Singapore 's trouble is that as soon as its economy starts to grow by more than 6–7% , the labour market tends to get tight . |
10 | He was pleased to see that as soon as they left the abbey gate , they were joined by the soldiers Sir James Selkirk had stationed near the abbey . |
11 | Percy Lubbock , at the end of The Craft of Fiction , acknowledged that as soon as we have finished reading a novel we begin to forget it , and what is left to talk about is a vague cloud of fading impressions : ‘ the book vanishes as we lay hands on it . ’ |
12 | What it does say is neatly summed up by Bereiter ( 1980 ) : " the disappointing message of the Schools ' Council research is that as soon as we begin to look beyond syntax , vocabulary and the like and try to Investigate functional aspects of student writing , we begin to find out more about the school system than we find out about children . " |
13 | ‘ Is it just coincidence that as soon as we arrive all sorts of weird shit starts happening ? |
14 | At weekends we cycled there under the hot sun in the early afternoon , not minding the heat at all because we knew that as soon as we arrived the cool water would welcome us . |
15 | We know that as soon as we try and make inroads into that it , it would absolutely mushroom . |
16 | He stumbled and droned and scribbled in his book like someone half asleep , but Miss Thorne knew that as soon as he had got rid of the book and started working on the character of Scrooge he would be very different . |
17 | I suspected that as soon as he left the boatyard the chart would be similarly destroyed . |
18 | Nicholas Ferrar refused all these suggestions , having decided that as soon as he was free to do so he wished to lead a religious life . |
19 | Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock . |
20 | " You mean that as soon as he married I should be disinherited ? " |
21 | ‘ A lot of families will say that as soon as he 's got the dowry you 'll get the girl back . |
22 | Gary 's father , Frank Hutchinson , of Frederick Street , Meadowfield , told an inquest in Darlington yesterday that as soon as he heard the news on the radio he was certain his son had been hurt and immediately contacted police . |
23 | All teachers know that as soon as you say " Words never end in -ley " , some bright child asks , " What about valley ? " |
24 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
25 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
26 | same lines , but , he know he , you assume that as soon as you got outside him , that bloody draft would come round and push him back and the other bloke would carry on . |
27 | ‘ Yes , I sensed that as soon as I saw you . |
28 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
29 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
30 | At the ship 's office I was informed that Sir George Clerk , the British Ambassador , had sent a message that as soon as I landed I was to call on him at the Embassy . |