Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But these firms , as I said , they wanted this or that or the other and with er because of this fellow Mr he did nothing to get it out of his so it just happened , you know what I mean .
2 Practically everyone gets roped into ‘ bowling ’ at one time or another but the family , and , always seem to maintain the highest profile on the alley .
3 Very commonplace today go in to Thomas Cook 's there 'll be a video running continually with one destination or another or an activity holiday etcetera .
4 Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet
5 Usually with a drink or several and the company of good friends .
6 Tegel was designed for 5.8 million passengers a year ; in 1990 , it handled a million more than that and the result was chaos .
7 Those who did respond were much more likely to say that little or no contribution was fair .
8 We should distinguish here between expropriation , which suggests that little or no compensation is paid ; nationalization and forced divestment , which leave the question open ; and indigenization , which suggests that foreign personnel and control are changed to indigenous personnel and control .
9 It is very clear from the findings of the Survey that little or no change has occurred in the patterns of demand for the major categories of material studied on earlier occasions : the overwhelming majority of items requested are still modern publications , and the demand for foreign-language publications ( and , indeed , for publications in particular foreign languages ) has remained constant .
10 If the philosophy is to decentralise , in the way described in Chapter 21 , that is to say by effectively delegating authority to the sub-units , then it is likely that little or no role will be available for a corporate marketing department .
11 If trade union solidarity is to mean anything , it must mean that each and every worker sharing equally in the benefit of members and paid equally for the service .
12 He had seen to it that each and every boy found his way into a suitable occupation .
13 Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements .
14 Nigel resented the attention that each and every author he reviewed was getting .
15 He always considered himself to be Reformed and praised the Westminster Assembly , that there was ‘ never a synod of more excellent divines than this and the Synod of Dort ’ .
16 As the packing density is usually lower than this and the number of records per cylinder greater , overflow from a cylinder is not usually a problem .
17 At the Huntsman 's Inn in Ide , Kent , the refurbishment proposals were to involve demolitions so extensive that all but a portion of the building 's external wall would be destroyed , the planned reconstruction included an extension that would double the size of the original structure .
18 But the difference is that all but a handful are still towns .
19 The rest of the cat was omitted by the cheesemaker , giving the impression that all but the grin had vanished .
20 ‘ Do n't assume that any and every reference to the supernatural or any work of fantasy is harmful .
21 It was impossible to avoid each other in such a hectic department , but fortunately the very business of it meant that any and every contact was necessarily fairly brisk .
22 The district was sinister enough at any time ; now , with the feeling that any and every form of menace , from a cut-throat to a coal-hole , might be within inches for all I could tell , my small remaining resource of courage were exhausted within minutes .
23 And I 've seen when getting corn er just right er dressed for the mill , I 've seen us er doing with a spade and that and a tub .
24 to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff
25 And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers .
26 When they was doing the decorating and that and a lock went wrong oh take it down to Dick and er they 'd bring it and whatever I was doing , however important it was , just because they 'd be finish the decorating at night and they wanted to put the lock back , I 'd drop what I was doing and do this for them .
27 Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other .
28 Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other .
29 He says it 's come to my knowledge cos er they want this and that and the other .
30 Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other .
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