Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather they 've given our county councillors a bloody nose by throwing them out , and the councillors are taking it out on us . |
| 2 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 3 | Or rather she had assumed it without thinking . |
| 4 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 5 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 6 | Or perhaps she had felt it then herself . |
| 7 | She had caught no fish , or perhaps she had thrown them back . |
| 8 | about the last month or so I 've felt it getting slower . |
| 9 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 10 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 11 | Or maybe they 've left them behind somewhere . |
| 12 | ‘ Either we have caught a sickness which is native to this world and we have no immunity against it , or maybe we have brought something with us , and because the air and the temperature are different here , it grows and alters . |
| 13 | Maybe it 's a search for the feelgood factor in the midst of recession , or maybe it 's got something to do with modern architecture , but the market for Christmas trees is sort of growing . |
| 14 | Once or twice I have heard her begin to tell the story of those days to some young man , but then halfway through a sentence she would go white with anger , knock back her gin and go silent . |
| 15 | Well either ill or else they 've gone you know cos it 's a nice day out do n't know . |
| 16 | Norman on his wall has a a a list of er theoretical waitings for the different specialists at Orpington hospital and presumably he 's got one beside it for Queen Mary 's as well . |
| 17 | And slowly he had extended his grip . |
| 18 | Now to many people community arts is a red rag to a bull because there is the feeling that a lot of these things start off quite splendidly as voluntary organizations , and suddenly they 've got their fingers in the public purse . |
| 19 | And what we 've got N here we 've selected as three and so we 've broken it up into three tuples because another rule in the method even though it can be broken is that each pixel can only go into one tuple . |
| 20 | And so we 've got our public part , our telephone , our fax machine , all through to the police , and now we 're basing the car here . |
| 21 | me , I , I got , I took me old three put out the other day and so they said got your |
| 22 | They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles . |
| 23 | They 're young and so they 've got lots of energy . |
| 24 | We are very grateful for their support and their continued interest in our programme and I think they were er conscious of the fact that Vice President Pandolfi was coming here and so they have contacted him saying how essential they think it is that the work should continue here . |
| 25 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 26 | ‘ And so I 've got his precious kids all for my very own , have n't I ? |
| 27 | But like , it was alright then because like means that you can changed up in this one corner of the changing room all the time and so I 'd got my shirt on while I was putting my T-shirt on like for the reason that my bra strap was bust , not actually because I 'd got a gigantic love bite around my neck ! |
| 28 | And so I have done something from a plane . |
| 29 | Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but |
| 30 | And so she 's got it in for us now , really badly ! |