Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He kept asking where he could send flowers and whether it would be better to send them to the hospital or to here if she was coming home . ’ |
| 2 | The only person he does n't learn from , or at least so it seems , is himself . |
| 3 | Ever since human beings first began to practise agriculture , 10 000 years ago , or at least since they learned to fertilize the fields , they have caused extra quantities of nitrogen oxides and ammonia to flow into the atmosphere . |
| 4 | But by far the majority perish , before they are even hatched — or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves . |
| 5 | We noticed in our initial , cursory discussion of integrity in the last chapter that many of our political attitudes , collected in our instinct of group responsibility , assume that we are in some sense the authors of the political decisions made by our governors , or at least that we have reason to think of ourselves that way . |
| 6 | You look for ways to ensure that either it can be regularly dealt with by someone else or at least that it should reach you partly or virtually completed . |
| 7 | The second , and methodological , argument against historicism was that it was not ‘ rational ’ , or at least that it fostered irrationalism and mysticism ( Popper 1966 : 216 ) . |
| 8 | ( Note : Do ensure that you have carefully marked the Source disk or at least that it is ‘ write ’ protected . |
| 9 | Sometimes it is , sometimes it is n't , but what black people have to do is to become so well qualified that they can not be turned down on this basis — or at least if they are they can refer it to the Race Relations Board . |
| 10 | We expect some firm proposals from the Minister tonight , or at least when we debate this matter in Committee , that will assure the House that something will be done about this very dangerous situation . |
| 11 | When that aim is interpreted , or at least when it comes out of the other end of the machine , it results in the odd ex-chief executive being appointed . |
| 12 | ‘ Or at least until we 've worked out a policy . ’ |
| 13 | The habit of association among hand-loom weavers could last as long as the class of workmen itself , or at least until it became too unstable and diluted to preserve it . |
| 14 | Anyway , there 's certainly no way I 'm going to start physio on him the way things are , or at least until you or Dr Grant have given him the OK . ’ |
| 15 | Britain after 1945 is full of people who live alone because they like it , or at least because they like it better than any of the available alternatives . |
| 16 | ‘ However , life in Germany , whether you 're working or not , is more stressful and aggressive than over here and I do n't think students here appreciate what they have . ’ |
| 17 | The best that could be for the the Simpson woman is that at least when they had married , she stuck to him right to his death . |
| 18 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 19 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 20 | For ever and for ever when I move . ’ |
| 21 | The quay was deserted ; soon the Black Pig was floating out on the falling tide , and for once as they hoisted the mainsail the crew were well pleased to be going back to sea . |
| 22 | Erm as I told you before , the original er conformation of the house was that that the cooked food was brought through that door through the screened door and into here as you see . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course , ’ Fabia replied , and from then until it was time for her to drive Cara to the airport she listened intently to all her sister had to impart . |
| 24 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |
| 25 | If the arbitrator dies or is unwilling or incapable of acting a new arbitrator may be appointed under the Arbitration Act 1950 , and at least while he is acting within his jurisdiction an arbitrator is immune from liability for negligence ( Sirros v Moore [ 1975 ] QB 118 ) . |
| 26 | You can do without that hassle and at least if you 've a good relationship you got a good . |
| 27 | That 's true , but at least once it 's there it 's easy to clean up . |
| 28 | But at least when we go to yeah , you get to go to places like ice skating . |
| 29 | ‘ But at least when they are so very young , they have no chance to sin and bring more wickedness into this world . |
| 30 | ‘ It is bad enough losing their job but at least if they got the redundancy package that was available under Leyland-DAF , they would not be so badly off . |