Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps he knew something unsavoury about Latimer 's personal life . |
| 2 | Sooner or later it seems everything becomes collectable ; old telephone boxes , ancient park benches , and now the hunt is on for lamp posts , from all over the world , as Richard Hudson-Evans reports . |
| 3 | Maybe there 's a radar station over in the woods , or maybe they want everyone to think there is . ’ |
| 4 | Or maybe he knows something that we do n't know . ’ |
| 5 | Dr McNab was silent for such a long time that even those of his supporters who had remained steadfast throughout Dr Dunstaple 's persuasive arguments and had not yet crossed his name from their emergency cards , began to fear that perhaps he had nothing to say . |
| 6 | She had soon learned that almost everybody has something they want to hide , and something they 're eager to share . |
| 7 | In saying that our senses restrict us to appearances and that therefore we know nothing , they would mistakenly be supposing that knowledge is exclusively knowledge of necessary causes and inner natures . |
| 8 | Having thought he was hungry , he now realized that actually he needed anything rather than the overflowing plate of cholesterol the canteen at New Scotland Yard had provided with such admirable promptness . |
| 9 | Absolutely , it was absolutely fantastic and despite the rain , spectators enjoyed themselves and course designer Mike Etherington-Smith is a genius , and locally we had something to cheer us , you may have heard earlier . |
| 10 | Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called . |
| 11 | ‘ We began to talk , ’ Hoskyns recalled , ‘ and suddenly he stopped everything , and just asked ‘ Who are you ? ’ |
| 12 | cos basically they 've nothing to do |
| 13 | And so they lost everything . |
| 14 | He did n't know how to stop her and when she did stop by herself , when they got to the junction and had to change trains , he was afraid to say anything in case she started again , and so he said nothing . |
| 15 | Alexei did not understand why Jotan seemed to be amused by the notion , and so he said nothing . |
| 16 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 17 | It was out of season for rugby and so he had plenty of roving time and the nights were growing longer . |
| 18 | ‘ There was a guy at school who had a 12-string guitar and the sound just blew my mind , and so I got one . |
| 19 | Yeah , erm , called the Cycle Book , I 've got a copy erm , and so I got one from him , and there 's quite a few adverts in there bikes . |
| 20 | She 'd heard nothing and so I said nothing . ’ |
| 21 | I wanted Rickie to stop using it , and I wanted a friend to stop using it as well , and so I learned everything I could . ’ |
| 22 | Finally I make a 70 per cent reduction copy of my dick , because the highland reduction setting used the whole area of the glass that my dick could reach , and so I captured something vaguely obscene looking , even if the total overall scale was reduced . |
| 23 | And so she entered one more hidden compartment of her brother 's life . |
| 24 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 25 | The verses of Practical Cats revert to the " thumping " rhythms which he had assimilated as a child , and perhaps they owe something of their inspiration , also , to the memory of Eliot 's father who drew cats for recreation . |
| 26 | She thought she would fall to the floor , or faint , standing there at the mercy of his ravishing mouth , and perhaps he sensed something of her helplessness , because he raised his head again almost immediately . |
| 27 | If only we had something of the social sense they had in Germany , we might manage to give our young people the experiences they ought to have … [ in Germany ] the rambling movement … [ has ] reached enormous proportions — 2,500 hostels provide shelter for 6d per night … . |
| 28 | If only she drank something other than herb tea . |
| 29 | If only she knew someone , even of small influence , who might put her in the way of finding something more congenial — and in a genteel home . |
| 30 | If only I had someone to talk to . |