Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time you had arrested him or put his trousers on . |
| 2 | They will have to fight or bluff their way through . |
| 3 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
| 4 | The irony is that Angus Wilson is , in the best sense , an experimental writer , by which I do not mean that he makes holes in the page or shuffles his paragraphs around . |
| 5 | At the moment , experts are not very helpful , since they tend to disagree among themselves , or to hedge their conclusions around with so many qualifications that parents do n't know how to apply them to their individual child . |
| 6 | ‘ You can not go out at night without one of them making an obscene remark or getting his tackle out . |
| 7 | Yet he could hardly finesse or cost-cut his way out of a serious downturn there . |
| 8 | He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down . |
| 9 | Then , when it is ridden in the show ring , or it sees something possibly threatening , its anxiety peaks — it promptly stands on its hind legs or pulls its tongue back over the bit . |
| 10 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 11 | There was a solid line of cars all the way back to it , drivers peering ahead or craning their heads out of the window . |
| 12 | When you are trying to lose weight or to keep your weight down , it sometimes seems like needless fuss making a ‘ proper cooked lunch ’ . |
| 13 | Should he tax the Hungarian with it next time they met , or keep his knowledge up his sleeve ? |
| 14 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 15 | The rubber was stretching and stretching and not tightening enough , and I could n't move my hands for fear of it tearing the flesh off a finger or biting my nose off . |
| 16 | He therefore had the choice of making a new home somewhere or making his way back to a town about whose public feelings he could have no doubt , but knowing that if he did not change his ways the whole thing might happen again . |
| 17 | Flowerpot-shaped sponge — to bathe with or store your soaps in , £12.50 , from Heal 's |
| 18 | If possible , try to relax , lie down or put your feet up , until the worst of the symptoms are over . |
| 19 | People would yell or shout out , put excreta through the door hatch or throw their dinner out . |
| 20 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 21 | The client is encouraged , and initially assisted , in developing and carrying out strategies for testing thoughts and beliefs about what might happen , e.g. ‘ If I ask my boss for a raise he 'll sack me or bite my head off . ’ , |
| 22 | Very strong in his own way , not swaggering or throwing his weight about , but a great inner strength . |
| 23 | Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s . |
| 24 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe his boats unload there , the ones that bring his mags in , ’ Hitch offered . |
| 26 | But it was a tense trio that made its way back to Surrey . |
| 27 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 28 | There are some flaws , however , in her behaviour that make her turn out to be not so impressive . |
| 29 | Rather than break their eating up into discrete meals , they typically eat more or less continuously . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a question of horses for courses , finding the best route forward and adopting the practices to fit that rather than bulldozing your way through without perhaps realising the wider environment in which this needs to work , ’ says John Catford , director of the Health Promotion Authority for Wales and professor of health promotion at the University of Wales . |