Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 2 | One way or another we 've had a pretty busy six months . |
| 3 | Very many men will admit , if they are honest with themselves , that at one time or another they have felt sexual attraction for a young girl — or boy . |
| 4 | Either for that reason or another he 's got a monumental chip on his shoulder . |
| 5 | Er , so some how or another you 've learned them , right . |
| 6 | I replied , ‘ There it is , you know , one way or another I 've had this and that stolen from me ’ . |
| 7 | For some reason or another I 've found a pizza that does n't affect his skin |
| 8 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 9 | But the best-laid schemes of mankind and its security police can be blown aside in the squeeze of the assassin 's trigger , sending one to heaven and one to hell and not for any good or ill they 've done to him . |
| 10 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 11 | say basically the same thing ; that , as emperor , he has the power to do a lot of damage and that power can quickly corrupt men , however noble or good they seem to start off . |
| 12 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 13 | Where practical we 've chosen to repeat information or at least summarise pertinent details within this volume so that you should n't need to keep swapping from one book to another . |
| 14 | At eight or nine I planned to run away with my friend Ann , to escape from the unjust punishments , the complaints of ingratitude , the wrongs I unwittingly committed . |
| 15 | And then when I was about twenty four , twenty four or five I 'd got twenty men working for me , so er we were n't doing so bad . |
| 16 | On the 6th & 7th he continued to colour the room , put in the hooks , and part of the tenters , coloured the frames . |
| 17 | Yes , I think whenever one makes judgment about therapy being better or worse you have to say er on what criteria and there are certainly certain criteria on which group therapy would do better for certain problems like us making feel people feel better if they had a symptom or problem which erm make them feel worse because , because they felt isolated from the community , so it means other people who have got the same problem makes you feel better erm and er certainly suggestion therapy can produce dramatic results especially in the short run . |
| 18 | When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been . |
| 19 | But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same |
| 20 | In a moment or two they had left the Trevi behind them . |
| 21 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 22 | We have looked favourably at a number of their items in the past but over the last year or two they have acquired a growing respect for the estimable sound of their CD players . |
| 23 | He remembered , from the one or two he 'd gone to with her , that she was in the habit of pocketing things and crunching large handfuls of crisps . |
| 24 | But for the last week or two he 's had to use a bigger bag . |
| 25 | After a moment or two he stopped laughing , and , in the fitful light of a moon playing hide and seek behind its veils of cloud , searched her face . |
| 26 | He had a thing or two he wanted to tell him . |
| 27 | In fact , for the first year or two she 'd expected to hear from him , asking for a divorce so that he could marry Marissa , who had , apparently , followed him to Sydney . |
| 28 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
| 29 | Somehow or other they had to get beneath the certainty and feed the seeds of doubt . |
| 30 | But er in France , there are , there are sixty year old , seventy year old jockeys , but he will win a race because all jockeys win races , I mean it does n't matter how good they are , sometime or other they do win . |