Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing moved at the crossroads , or nothing that threatened a soldier 's life . |
| 2 | When Helen told Price Waterhouse that this was what she wanted to do , she thought they would say it was all or nothing and tell her to pack her bags . |
| 3 | Let us instantly go to my closet or yours and come upon our mutual trial for you have fired by soul with impatience . |
| 4 | Er apparently they phone her up or summat and ask her if she 'll go and stand in for other people and she turned round and says if I ca n't have this school I 'm not doing any . |
| 5 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 6 | that 's got asthma , and he often goes into or dia he 's a ba diabetic or summat and goes into comas . |
| 7 | There was absolutely no way of getting from Wandsworth to Wanley except by car , or none that did not involve at least four methods of public transport . |
| 8 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 9 | The Glenpatrick Golf Club holds the main golfing event of the year , or one that generates the most obvious competition , and that is the ‘ Buchanan Trophy ’ , the inter-company match . |
| 10 | There must always be an argument as to whether it is best to have a product that sells to a wide market or one that sells to a specific market sector . |
| 11 | In addition you will need to decide whether you want a type that will act as a further embellishment of your scheme or one that blends insignificantly into the background in order not to detract attention from the curtains themselves . |
| 12 | They did not have to suffer a very low-calorie diet or one that involved eating expensive and unusual foods . |
| 13 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |
| 14 | The resemblance could be particularly close if breeders were installing some trait that allowed the crop to thrive in a new habitat , or one that shielded it from parasites or diseases . |
| 15 | Is it the one of the right or the left or one that 's got his finger in . |
| 16 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 17 | Well I know the night Lindsey was smoking and she had or something but smelt the smoke on her breath and he got the belt and he gave her a belt and I lay in bed Kay and I cried |
| 18 | Ah it might be , maybe a dodgy earth or something that keeps the light on |
| 19 | I wonder if , it Mr , was it choir or his father or something that had it , I can if I can remember somebody saying . |
| 20 | Then , ‘ Berridge 's ’ , he said , or something that sounded like that . |
| 21 | It was cooked by a woman , or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda . |
| 22 | And they 've got this doberman or something that barks all the time like , and it 's allowed i in the garden and it sits in the garden all the time and all the rest of it ! |
| 23 | So if you have an unused runway or something that looks like one nearby , please use the conventional markings for a disused , unusable runway — white crosses or , at the very least , tyres or stakes painted white . |
| 24 | Oh good , perhaps he had a funny flavour or something that 's put him off |
| 25 | but I know there 's a , a LP or something that 's been brought out |
| 26 | If er , scientists and his team works on a , or think they are on to a discovery or something that needs researching , can get , the necessary funding , office , or firms that they benefit , say this in the previous paragraph , that 's fine , but to concentrate on topics which are I do n't think that happens . |
| 27 | But there 's a chance that while he was searching , he found some letters or a photograph or something that tied you in with Mahoney . |
| 28 | If you did have a list it one of the list B B C English or Queen 's English or something that makes people know what they w what you 're trying to tell them . |
| 29 | Give a detailed oral account of an event , or something that has been learned in the classroom , or explain with reasons why a particular course of action has been taken . |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't like to say that there is not such a thing as black magic but I know of a coincidence , or something that happened regularly . |