Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you really can only go shopping once a week , you will have to store all you fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator or somewhere cool to prevent them from spoiling . |
| 2 | He made his speech — or rather sought to make it — against a barrage of noise and calls to resign from the Opposition and was listened to in stony silence by the Government benches . |
| 3 | This rule adds a consideration to those already discussed as being relevant to the scope of Ord. 53 , namely whether the High Court ( which hears AJRs ) or the alternative forum is more expert in dealing with the type of issue in question or better equipped to resolve it . |
| 4 | ‘ I more or less had to prise it out of him , but in the end he decided I was n't such a bad risk , after all . ’ |
| 5 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 6 | Thornton did not have the strength in his punches to trouble Eubank early in the fight or enough snap to worry him later on . |
| 7 | Life offered , or soon beg to lay it down , |
| 8 | While there are proper ways of doing things , it is up to the individual to choose or not to choose to do them . |
| 9 | She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked . |
| 10 | People who mix old and new oil or just keep topping it up are sacrificing the good oil for the bad . |
| 11 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 12 | Children can be notoriously careless with their glasses or obstinately refuse to wear them . |
| 13 | In Botswana , government has consistently decided to live with the mining companies , rather than nationalize them or even seek to control them . |
| 14 | I certainly would n't bother to test it or even dare to test it now . |
| 15 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 16 | The problems and abuses connected with the laws of settlement will be discussed below ; for the moment we are concerned to stress that persons with a settlement in a parish had a real claim to relief should misfortune or simply age overtake them , or indeed if they could find no work or even none at wages sufficient for the support of the family . |
| 17 | Many hallucinated that they were shrinking or else expanding to fill it . |
| 18 | This sounds as if I were either sick of it myself or else trying to make you sick of it ; but neither is the case . |
| 19 | If he was complaining about overdue money or share certificates , the dealer would probably refer him , or else promise to ring him back later . |
| 20 | His Landlord , designing profit himself by it , by raising his rent or otherwise proposing to turn him out . |
| 21 | The forest was noisy with night sounds that only seemed to lock them closer into the area of light thrown by the fire . |
| 22 | His features showed no expression other than a mild amusement that only served to infuriate her all the more . |
| 23 | She swallowed and wondered if she should pull her hand away , but as Jake continued to hold it against his cheek , watching her with eyes that suddenly threatened to swallow her , she was aware that all at once her hand had become paralysed . |
| 24 | He could be quite casual in his attitude to his wife 's anxiety and more often than not failed to let her know when he was delayed . |
| 25 | For some time a rumour had persisted that Horemheb , in his moves to clear up the corruption which had flourished like rampant weed during the years in which the city had fallen into neglect , had more than once attempted to close it ; but that the interests which protected it were still too powerful for him to dispense with . |
| 26 | She liked the way he shuddered and groaned , docile as the pets that once had surrounded her and Sycorax and who would have submitted likewise if she had chosen to maltreat them . |
| 27 | I think that really does lead us back to the starting point which is the County Council 's view that er er that comprehensive study needs to be done as a matter of urgency and steps are being taken to get that work moving very soon now . |
| 28 | A ‘ natural high ’ that really does keep you up all night . |
| 29 | ‘ Any up and coming band that really wants to do it will do it . |
| 30 | Now that really did astound her , for she had assumed he must know , and that was why he was so convinced of her guilt . |