Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Truth is covered up , buried , and he comes and unburies the truth or rather shows us how we can unbury that truth within ourselves , shows us the tools we must use .
2 Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did .
3 Or do n't or manually type it in .
4 Obviously in practice the lenders must look for better returns than this ( for example by working their collectors harder or perhaps paying them less ) , which of course only serves to emphasise that their rates of charge are far from profiteering .
5 When the village was almost entirely an agricultural community then a case can be made , as we shall see , that the close-knit and overlapping social ties produced a situation in which everyone more or less knew everyone else , but we should be wary of sanctifying the agricultural village with a misplaced nostalgia .
6 We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems .
7 Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch .
8 Or merely kick it aside ?
9 Only then would he decide whether or not to take him back to our glorious green Earth .
10 If county shops put fanzines in , then we spectators can decide whether or not to slog them out of the ground after a couple of deliveries .
11 Here it is important to note that , despite the burden of many of the choices we can now make , people leave themselves with just as weighty a problem by refusing to recognize the options open to them , either putting themselves too easily in other people 's hands or not allowing themselves enough space to make an informed choice .
12 The widget-making company may increase the amount it pays the remaining workers ; it may reduce the price of widgets ( or not increase it as fast as prices in general rise ) ; and it may be able to retain some of the saving as increased profits .
13 Within hours of his departure HQ 5 Corps had acted on his " advice " and had approached Tolbukhin 's HQ about the handing over of the Cossacks , but they did so in a manner which reserved to higher authority the final decision whether or not to hand them over [ KP 93 ] .
14 And even while considering whether or not to remove it gently , she seemed to lack the power to do so .
15 This does not mean that a member can claim not to be bound by a rule merely because he has not bought a rulebook or not read it properly .
16 The main question was whether or not to keep it up .
17 So give it away , send it to a jumble sale , sell it if you can , or just throw it away .
18 Would they tell him why he was going to die , or just run him through ?
19 Like we 've had women who have wet their knickers and then put them on the radiator to dry , or just swilled them out in the sink and end up with a smelly room .
20 Whether you 're in a tight corner or just playing it straight , fit Harrison Drape 's new Superstyle ready corded track and you 'll discover it has some unexpectedly handy features .
21 Hardly a baffling puzzle for Holmes , I agree , but it shows what the fever to own books , or just to have them around to consult , may drive someone to do .
22 If you add the line SET WINPMT= prompt to your Autoexec.bat file ( or just type it in before you start Windows ) any MS-DOS sessions that you start will have the command prompt as defined .
23 or just have it there as it is .
24 Any way that you can think of that will help to get these axes right because most of the time it 's going to be this sort of thing I mean you said , Do you want me to work it you know use the graph or just work it out from this .
25 But who wants to give up a year or more to check someone else 's work ?
26 There are no stars , no-one grabs the spotlight or slyly edges anyone else out of fame 's way , they all support each other .
27 It does not , however , provide them with any defence to a claim that they negligently advised a particular treatment or negligently carried it out .
28 The cases do suggest , however , that where a director does possess a relevant expertise he should be judged by the standards of a competent practitioner of it , presumably on the ground that he has expressly or impliedly held himself out as being appropriately qualified .
29 There is an art to the task ; it is possible , otherwise , to put out the fire by smothering it with too much fuel , or even to poke it up too hard so that the last embers blaze up and the fire dies .
30 When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly .
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