Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had , at first , absolutely no hope of consent , and for a week or so she tossed in bed at night preparing to brace her spirit against the inevitable refusal . |
| 2 | ( Or so it said in the T&A last night ) . |
| 3 | He passed ‘ the pleasantest part of his youth ’ as a student at Edinburgh University — or so he declared in his will — and it was as a result of his generous bequest that the Faculty of Music was founded . |
| 4 | I must 've spilt summat or maybe I trod in a puddle cos my trousers are all wet and cold . |
| 5 | Or else we go in the afternoon and truss your pvc . |
| 6 | Either an eminent barrister , Matthew decided , about to buy his wife — not his mistress , not with that hair — some expensive bauble , or else he worked in Fortnum 's , down in Piccadilly , where all the salesmen dressed like that , and was just showing off to his mother . |
| 7 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 8 | He loitered in the wings , although usually he sat in his dressing-room until the curtain rose on the Mermaid 's Lagoon . |
| 9 | ‘ Very merry , and the best fritters that ever I eat in my life . ’ |
| 10 | You know I 'm I 'm spending money and time on him that really I suppose in theory I would be spending on my own grandchildren . |
| 11 | And it makes no difference in terms of consumption that here they appear in the catalogue rather than inscribed on the surface of the image since the contemporary catalogue has claims to offer a unifying experience for the viewer . |
| 12 | That these same organisations apparently continue to do business suggests that either they do in fact offer something extra which the discerning customer wants , or that the demand is more elastic than one might expect , i.e. the average customer is not so very discerning after all and may have more money than sense . |
| 13 | More than likely it belongs in the decade AD 60–70 , to judge from the presence of a coin of AD 67 in the truncated western rampart and the quantity of pre- and early-Flavian samian recovered in the Fosse Way suburb . |
| 14 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 15 | While they were there , an elderly man came down the stairs from the upper floor ( with its second hand books and books of local interest ) , and started to wander around , absent-mindedly Clara could tell from a certain straining of attention on Walter 's part that he was trying to catch the old man 's eye , and eventually he succeeded in doing so ; the old man nodded and smiled , with a bare " minimum of recognition , and Walter said " Good morning , Mr Warbley . " |
| 16 | It was raw , frank and eventually it appeared in print . |
| 17 | Some people say that trotting on the roads helps harden the horse 's legs while others maintain that too much trotting mean too much concussion on legs and feet ; I follow the latter view and so we stayed in walk with the occasional gentle trot uphill . |
| 18 | Because of a longstanding health condition , her father was not considered physically suitable for the armed forces and so he worked in a munitions factory not too far from their home . |
| 19 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 20 | And so it happens in Court 13 . |
| 21 | A close contest between two evenly matched crews had been predicted and so it proved in conditions that were considerably better than had been anticipated . |
| 22 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 23 | She may say she loves you and perhaps she does in her way , but Pickles does n't think or feel deeply about anything . |
| 24 | If only we realised in time , we would n't waste our lives on trash. why is the best thing in the world tied to the least lasting ? |
| 25 | If only he believed in her , could n't they together submerge themselves in the waters of Eden and be renewed for all time ? |
| 26 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 27 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | The thief does n't know whether it 's been marked , cos usually they take in practise , what could the police be able to do ? |
| 29 | Each line speaks volumes about the lives of the real people ( in the first two instances ) and the characters ( in the third example ) involved , and if ever you feel in need of a cure for insomnia just memorize one of these quotations , take it to bed with you , and try to imagine the events that could have preceded and followed the moment described in each of the brief extracts . |
| 30 | In general , it reaches a maximum thickness of 40–50 m near the basin margin but locally in the southern North Sea it attains a thickness of up to 90 m , and basinwards it decreases in thickness to less than 5 m ( Fig. 4c ) . |