Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It did n't pay to let a woman know you cared , or rather that your body did . |
2 | ‘ Slowly I found out more and more about my marvellous father and though my mother — or perhaps because my mother — cherished his memory like that of nobody else , I found out she had lied to me about him . |
3 | If you are not entitled to a State pension in your own right , you will receive the dependant 's rate of benefit , i.e. about 60 per cent of the full rate ( or less if your husband is not entitled to a full pension ) . |
4 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
5 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
6 | They did n't hurt exactly , it was more of a niggly pain but I worked it out to about once every four minutes or so and my mum said we 'd better ring the hospital . |
7 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
8 | There had been a month or so where her face had been seen almost daily on TV : they had not yet quite forgotten . |
9 | Leave for 2–3 mins , or more if your hair needs it , then rinse off with warm water . |
10 | And why did you choose your pet — for its own attributes alone , or partly because your choice might influence others ' opinion of you ? |
11 | The most worrying thing is not that life was imitating video game imitating life etc ; that my perception of reality had been fatally flawed by subliminal computer messages ; or even that my brain was becoming all-too transparent to any two-bob amateur psychiatrist who cared to take note . |
12 | The strange behaviour of systems that exhibit quantum effects seems often to challenge common sense , raising questions as to whether quantum theory provides only an incomplete account of nature and some other theory is needed at a more fundamental level , or even whether our concept of reality needs adjusting . |
13 | The recent Toyne Report ‘ Environmental Responsibility , An Agenda for Further and Higher Education ’ , commissioned by the DoE and the Welsh Office states , ‘ Everybody has some scope for doing his or her job in a more environmentally responsible way , and needs to understand the importance of this … but may well need more than this , either because they have been given specific responsibilities within their organisation , or simply because their organisation 's environmental impact is heavily dependent on the way they carry out their day-to-day tasks , and on the decisions which they have to take . ’ |
14 | He had n't expected either that the Mess would be in a château , that the furniture would be impressively of its period — no worn armchairs or bits of junk in a state of collapse from subalterns ' games , as so often to be found in the messes of his experience , or indeed that his welcome would be so unaffectedly cordial . |
15 | Place believed that only since his youth in the 1780s had London 's artisans begun to improve into a more " respectable " class . |
16 | I appreciate that greatly and my heart goes out to them , ’ he said on BBC Radio 4 's Today programme . |
17 | Quite right , except soon as your back 's turned dear |
18 | We owe much to the Annales Cambriæ , for example , and would gladly know more of whatever lay behind the Norman chronicler William of Jumièges ' statement that shortly before his conquest of England Swegen visited Rouen and agreed with Duke Richard II that booty taken by the Danes was to be sold through the Normans , who would provide a refuge where wounded men could recuperate . |
19 | Five years after they split , they are more influential than ever and their back catalogue is about to be reissued . |
20 | This document revealed that ever since her father 's death , Miss Honey had in fact been the rightful owner of a property on the edge of the village known as The Red House , which until recently had been occupied by a Miss Agatha Trunchbull . |
21 | Speaking in the bar of a five-star hotel in Marbella , Yasmin Gibson , a bit-part actress , said that even though her daughter Gemma was now in the care of the local authority , she planned to stay on the Costa del Sol until the end of her holiday in two weeks . |
22 | The eyes held a strange expression , and he guessed that even though their gaze was directed towards you their owner 's mind was on something entirely different . |
23 | getting down to the project re resource sheets er Jack w we felt that even though our bid was fairly low , even a adjusted for a full calculation . |
24 | When he let her off it had happened that simply and her world had never been the same again . |
25 | I know they do Jed but but I mean what I 'm saying if priority states other forces have probably been waiting and rather than us sort of trying |
26 | To prove his importance and so that his entrance was emphasised all entered in order of precedence . |
27 | ‘ And so when our conversation was out of sync before — ’ |
28 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
29 | Men tend to put greater store by their work once there are children ( perhaps because of the burden of being the sole earner , and perhaps because their place at work is not unchallenged in the way it may be at home ) and housework , which before may have been shared equally , often now falls to the woman . |
30 | Yet , considering the sordid life to which the modern underclass is committed , and especially when their life is compared with that of the contented majority , it is an occasion for wonder that the discontent and its more violent and aggressive manifestations are not greater than they are . |