Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 2 | He refused to elaborate on his message except to confirm that it fell within the framework of UN Security Council resolutions , and that it had been delivered to an Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister , Sa'adoun Hammadi , who had visited Tehran on Feb. 1-3 . |
| 3 | In a speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 he announced that it was better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it began to abolish itself from below . |
| 4 | On returning to the box and resuming his duties , he was more puzzled than frightened for he did not believe in ghosts . |
| 5 | Gorbachev declined to comment on the talks , other than to indicate that they had been inspired by the scale of the commercial links which already existed between their countries . |
| 6 | I know I know I 'm taking it out of order but rather than wait until we get there , this has been raised , why ca n't we deal with it now ? |
| 7 | It would be better if you contacted the police rather than wait until they arrive to question you . ’ |
| 8 | I can do no more here than say that I believe that they illuminate some of the processes whereby females come to wish to disassociate themselves from mathematics and other scientific and/or technical activities . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed not to be doing the film , ’ Crawford added , ‘ but I would rather that people remember enjoying my performance in the play than say that I did n't quite pull it off in the film . ’ |
| 10 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 11 | This is usually easier said than done as they rust and are difficult to find . |
| 12 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 13 | ‘ Aye , ‘ t is more than time that she made herself useful . |
| 14 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 15 | The five leading members of the party at the centre of the controversy , Pearnel Charles , Errol Anderson , Karl Samuda , Edmund Bartlett and Douglas Vaz , although stating that they did not want to unseat Seaga , refused to give a public statement of unconditional loyalty to him . |
| 16 | She will have no choice except to do as I ask her — and then , once the murder is done , she will be in my power for ever ! ’ |
| 17 | The bearish money spread ( Fig. 7.9(b) ) reflects the profit and loss potential of an investor who gives a higher probability to the security price falling than rising but who takes out insurance in case of being wrong . |
| 18 | So-called commuter planes that carry up to 150 passengers whisper rather than roar because they use the latest propeller technology . |
| 19 | wilko knows about tore but leeds has shown no interest in him other than saying that they know about this player . |
| 20 | By contrast , of Germans , Italians , and Mexicans interviewed , more believed they had no influence at national and local level than believed that they had . |
| 21 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 22 | seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end . |
| 23 | Much more tricky than knowing if you 've found a badger sett , is knowing whether or not it is still active . |
| 24 | She says that it 's more comfortable and she can sit up in it , rather than slumping as she did in her old one . |
| 25 | However , prizegiving was only about half an hour later than planned and we set off for home at a reasonable hour . |
| 26 | It is easier to say whether a man has paid the money or not than to say whether he has complied with other orders ; and if he fails to pay , it is easy to get the money by selling his goods , if he has any . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not really inclined to do a post-mortem on ‘ Provision ’ , other than to say that I acknowledge that it was less successful and less fun than the previous album , ’ he says in a most matter-of-fact voice . |
| 28 | But to complain that its effect was therefore paralysingly glum would no more have occurred to her as fair than to complain that it made her feel fat . |
| 29 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 30 | Even in notation , the differences in musical language between orally transmitted ‘ folk ’ song , printed bourgeois song and recorded rock song come through : they hardly need comment , except to say that they do fit many of the stereotypes of the neo-McLuhanite model ( see Ex. 3.1 ) . |