Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 2 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |
| 3 | In this case if our 50-year-old reduced his weight by a stone or so and maintained it indefinitely it may well be enough to control the diabetes . |
| 4 | Or so as to test him ? |
| 5 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
| 6 | The question for an Industrial Tribunal is not whether one of them was innocent but whether you carried out such reasonable investigation as you could and you reasonably believed it was either or both and dismissed them both because of that belief . |
| 7 | Most of these reserves were held in the Eurodollar market , which meant that rather than deposit them in New York the central banks of the oil producers deposited them in banks outside the United States . |
| 8 | It appears that rather than allowing us to enter a realm of meditation and escapism so associated with abstraction these paintings are determined to make us face up to the ambiguities in our readings of the visual world . |
| 9 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 10 | Haughtily I will now declare that even if asked I could not endorse anything in which I did not believe . |
| 11 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 12 | It made her toes curl just listening to him , and perversely that made her even angrier . |
| 13 | First you must fill the tank — a relatively idiot-proof exercise , though you must remember to unscrew it carefully and slowly when replenishing it , since the steam is kept under considerable pressure . |
| 14 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 15 | Amdahl Corp believes that its Huron applications development and production system is a winner , and rather than leave it stranded on the mainframe under MVS , it is taking it along in the direction the market is moving with two new versions , one that runs under its UTS implementation of Unix System V on its mainframes , the other for Unix workstations , the first version of the latter being for 80486-based machines under Unix . |
| 16 | And rather than make it into a viable erm , organization . |
| 17 | As Adam Smith remarks in 1759 : ‘ When a person comes into his chamber , and finds the chairs all standing in the middle of the room , he is angry with his servant , and rather than see them continue in that disorder , perhaps takes the trouble himself to set them all in their places with their backs to the wall . |
| 18 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 19 | One lane and that means one lane one lane and so that means I 've got ta squeeze you out . |
| 20 | I had ‘ flu ’ at the time , and perhaps that made me rather jaundiced . |
| 21 | She knew now it was something she could n't face , to be possessed of magic — magic that could explode without warning and all but kill you … ’ |
| 22 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 23 | In fact she called him to her dressing room after the performance and all but ordered him to leave his normal persona behind . |
| 24 | He damn near bankrupts me and all but gets me arrested . |
| 25 | Mr Browning coming in at that very moment ran to his wife 's side and all but hauled her out of the bed in order to get her upright — in a moment , the convulsion was over and she sank back quite exhausted and drained . |
| 26 | So Elizabeth was about to get her onto the to carry her out , she said nice and gently and picked her up and taken her outside ! |
| 27 | After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it . |
| 28 | And somehow that made it more real . |
| 29 | While she ate she read , another thing her mother would have disapproved of , but her ‘ book ’ was the parish magazine and somehow that made it better . |
| 30 | You can borrow the money from a bank easily and quickly and pay it back later as you can afford to . |