Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then Jess said : ‘ Come in … come in , afore the weather does thee an injury ! ’ smiling at him . |
| 2 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 3 | Then again , we 've had Echo & The Bunnymen supporting us in front of 3,000 Seig Heil-ing loonies throwing bottles and chairs at them . |
| 4 | Many turners appreciate pleasing curves but like me , do n't possess the ‘ eye ’ or the skill to create them on a lathe . |
| 5 | In the context of the right or the freedom to protest it merits special attention . |
| 6 | Some had travelled a considerable distance for example from Australia , Germany , Belgium and the USA and were not disappointed by either the welcome or the expertise offered them . |
| 7 | Gerber , with 19 international tries in 24 Tests , is considering retirement when he returns to the Republic , insisting : ‘ When you are 24 your mistakes are forgiven , but when you are my age every game has to be excellent or the critics give you a difficult time . |
| 8 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 9 | Anyway , in case the police or the soldiers stop you , better for both of us if I 'm not your passenger . ‘ |
| 10 | However , I found the most frightful difficulty in persuading the various captains of these teams from one flight or the other to let me join in . |
| 11 | You see , he came from a family of ten lads and four lasses and food was the main object in their lives ; and if you were n't careful and hung on to your plate one or the other swiped it . ’ |
| 12 | It is not enough for one party or the other to tell us what his mind is , that he must do in person . |
| 13 | Too often it is exported for foreign exchange while poor people without the money to buy it or the land to grow it go hungry : South Asia still contains the majority of the world 's ‘ absolute poor ’ . |
| 14 | The refusal to see the signs of malnutrition and dehydration , or the determination to see them as something other than what they are , as a nervous condition to be treated with painkillers , tranquillizers , tonics and elixirs , represents the worst instance of collective bad faith in Bom Jesus de Mata . |
| 15 | Here she was ‘ so Irish ’ , a kind of veiled racism or compliment : it depended on her mood or the person saying it how she took it . |
| 16 | If you went to an estate agent you may if they 're willing to er have one or two estate agent staff to help you out and if you went to a golf club you would be likely to have the pro or the secretary help you out . |
| 17 | The report has informed the contents of the Bill , so will the Secretary of State or the Under-Secretary tell us whether the Government are going to reject the advice in the Rothschild report about the future size of the coal industry ? |
| 18 | Whether because of the position she 'd made him adopt , or the bonds securing him , he was as stiff as a fence post . |
| 19 | There are n't many new ideas , or the money to back them , so if there is a good script that has an Asian angle , the chances are it 's got a better probability of getting made . |
| 20 | Sufferers from drug addiction are perpetually in trouble with the Law because their drugs of choice may be illegal and because they may have to steal or commit other offences in order to obtain their drugs or the money to buy them . |
| 21 | At the moment , local authorities , which are supposed to police many of the new controls , do not have either the expertise or the money to make them work . |
| 22 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 23 | Debt , or the ability to attain it , has now come to be associated with power . |
| 24 | Was it the Virgin rescuing her own or the Devil showing he was beaten ? |
| 25 | But , if the refusal or the conditions prevent him from obtaining ‘ reasonably beneficial use ’ of the land , he can serve a purchase notice . |
| 26 | Peugeot is promising overnight delivery of parts or the customer gets them free of charge . |
| 27 | Either the investigating officer , using his own personal radio , or the officer accompanying him is then usually able to check those details almost immediately on the police national computer . |
| 28 | Like the world of commerce , the clerical profession offered increasingly varied opportunities to young men with the means , the talents or the vocation to seize them . |
| 29 | According to the economist , he lacks the tools of a statistical training or the will to use them . |
| 30 | Technically , an assault is either the application of force to the person of another , or the threat to apply it in such a way as to cause the other to fear or apprehend that he is about to be subjected to force . |