Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Success is n't the most important thing , it 's got most to do with where you live , which team you support , or where you used to live before you got moved out … you go back there , support your old team . ’ |
| 2 | Or that they would do as Allen had done already , dog the footsteps of the verderers , shadowing them from the cover of the forest , until they fell in with some outlaws . |
| 3 | At the time , however , they took the precaution of taking out a two-year lease on their office space , since they had no idea how fast the firm would grow , whether it would be a success , or if they would work as well together outside E&Y . |
| 4 | He wanted to know whether she would like him to make her a cup of tea or whether they might wait until his wife returned from a committee meeting . |
| 5 | The remaining disagreement is whether zidovudine monotherapy should begin early to take advantage of this short-lived benefit or whether one should wait until symptoms develop . |
| 6 | And in fact there are even more subtle things than that you can find if you look carefully at Oh I might er I think that we might go out into the garden and I 'll show you one or two other features out there that are er even more er interesting and er er exciting . |
| 7 | It is a constant concern that they might have achieved much more if services had been better and that they may regress if services do n't improve . |
| 8 | I wanted to light a match , but knew there were only four matches left now , and that I must wait until I reached the Bible-box where I could first make a handful of paper spills to keep the flame going . |
| 9 | It clear that it is costing British jobs on a substantial scale and that it will continue until the unfair practices cease . |
| 10 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 11 | ‘ I am he that was Norman Britton when on the earth , now returned to haunt you , Albert Roger Quigley , and to tell you that you are an evil man and that you will fall as I have fallen ! |
| 12 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 13 | And whereas you can see if you might have A type behaviour sort of lower down , , you think if you really want to rise , you 're going to have to cope . |
| 14 | Now as your sheet tells you and as you should know if you read it carefully , punctuation marks where someone is speaking come inside the inverted commas , so , the question mark is a type of punctuation , is n't it , obviously , so it comes within the inverted commas. okay ? |
| 15 | no , but if you 'll buy if you buy seconds tiles Margaret then you have |
| 16 | But if you 'd wait until I switch on the hall light … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Building a new luxury hotel in Barbados is a risk , no doubt of that , but if anyone can pull if off , I 'm sure Stephen can . ’ |
| 18 | But before she could decide whether or not finally to deny it he stopped her in her tracks with another accusation — one that she had definitely not seen coming . |
| 19 | This is a year when a partnership is not only important in itself , but when you should ask whether it can take you where want to go . |
| 20 | The sharp miniature flakes that covered the rock like fish scales cut into my finger tips and felt as though they would break as soon as I placed a toe on them . |
| 21 | But at this thought rage grasped her and shook her with red-hot hands , so that her eyes went dark and she found herself walking fast up the road , and then along another , and another , walking as though she would explode if she stopped . |
| 22 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |
| 23 | He looked as though he 'd crack if you touched him . |