Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] be [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm just wondering if it 's my teeth or that it 's just my blood that 's doing it .
2 I was also surprised to discover how few booksellers there were in Torquay , or if they were here their voices seemed strangely muted .
3 He wondered if Heather , sitting in the same chair and gazing at the same view , had somehow bequeathed to him this reaction , or if it were entirely his own , a product of the self-pity Kingdom had identified .
4 Join a SCIAF group — or if there is n't one in your parish/area , why not form one ?
5 HOW Will I know whether I have been regressed or whether it is simply my imagination working overtime ?
6 Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt .
7 That 's right , yeah , where as it 's now they 're all going to open up , gon na go chasing around
8 Except that she was n't his patient .
9 Except that it was n't her name that she carved into the yielding stone , but her sister 's .
10 ‘ I am off-duty , ’ said Sally-Anne awefully , ‘ and I am bound to tell you that although I am here I am not here in the sense of waiting on you . ’
11 So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a
12 Well it 's lovely that cos it 's like you can put your drinks on it as well and your cup of tea and that .
13 ‘ So that if they 're there they 'll see us . ’
14 ‘ No , I 'm just telling you that if you are then you 're going to have a long love affair with your right hand because I 'm straight and so is Rod .
15 I have this strong fear that if I am just myself , I 'm going to be dull .
16 Durance said : ‘ I believed that if I were there I could control what she told you . ’
17 Frau Nordern asked in a tone of voice which strongly suggested that if he was then he could go and do it somewhere else .
18 The increase in the number of prosecutions did not result , however , in a feeling of sympathy for homosexuals , but rather the feeling , as John Wolfenden expressed it , that ‘ nobody had any idea how much of it there was … but there was an impression that it was increasing ; and there was a feeling that if it was then it ought to be curbed ’ .
19 You suggested that while you were away I should continue with my diary and record anything I would wish to talk to you about .
20 ‘ They know that while he is abroad he can not answer the questions about what has happened to the promised recovery . ’
21 I remember that when we were there we went on th , it was either a boat or something ?
22 Because the water in itself er , I 'm sure that when you 're there it 's erm it 's a beautiful place to be , but the water in itself in this photograph has not got the best of light on it .
23 Dearest , I know that when I am away my darling goes out with others .
24 Oh I ask him , he said that when he was here he says oh I 'll pick them up another time
25 You 'd either a cart or a horse and cart , or a tractor and trailer , and you 'd nice peat , and all these heaps of muck and you knew that when there was n't anything else to do you 'd got to get out there and spread it .
26 Er and that they are so he asked Mrs to do the reading which she , came out it 's , , but so er there we are !
27 So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God .
28 They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature .
29 Mr Wilcock told the bench that Mr Smith was not a cruel man , and that it was not his intention to cause his animals suffering .
30 ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service .
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