Example sentences of "unless [pers pn] [vb base] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never leave the station unless I witness some person or persons committing or about to commit some offences , minor or otherwise . |
| 2 | Similarly , the apparent text of my obsessive orderliness read , ‘ Form and order make for efficiency , and efficiency makes for a well-structured , meaningful life ’ , while the sub-text read , ‘ Unless I impose some form and order on life , I shall lose control , chaos will ensue , and life will become meaningless . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't see how we can avoid that , ’ said Robert , ‘ unless you use some kind of periscope . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No way you 're going to be fresh … unless you get some rest . ’ |
| 5 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 6 | And do n't site it too close to a house wall , or you will get sooty stains — unless you build some form of screening . |
| 7 | Unless you have some experience in cutting clay pipes ( or can arrange the layout so that no cutting is necessary ) , it is probably best to stick with the easier-to-use uPVC . |
| 8 | However , unless you have some knowledge of the subject , it is just as easy to pay too much as it is to pick up a bargain . |
| 9 | You wo n't get an overdraft unless you have some security . |
| 10 | Unless you want some bits from down there . |
| 11 | But it does need cleari , unless we get some sort of consensus , and it behove you to say look this is |
| 12 | No chance of getting any laundry done unless we meet some tribe of washerwomen waiting for custom outside one of those zinc shacks like we saw in that village in Provence do you remember ? |
| 13 | If we are to proceed in our quest or to search our land we have to accept that we are unlikely to do so , unless we accept some measure of control ourselves . |
| 14 | In terms of activity , North Sea exploration slowed down in 1992 and unless we see some adjustment to the Petroleum Revenue Tax changes announced by the Chancellor in the March 1993 Budget , exploration will inevitably decrease further this year . |
| 15 | Some managers believe that they would lose touch with their department ( both workload and staff ) unless they retain some routine tasks . |
| 16 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 17 | Individuals have little incentive to innovate unless they have some way of sharing in the value which they have created . |
| 18 | A preliminary exploratory questionnaire study made it clear that subjects find it very difficult to give accident figures unless they have some anchors for their estimates . |