Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 32 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 33 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 34 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 35 | a pink shuff shuffalot , lent or something |
| 36 | Nothing happens on the property in Kent — from which I conclude that our plans have either misfired or we have been seen through ( now there 's a possibility to douse even your ever-optimistic spirit ) and from you I hear nothing at all . |
| 37 | Because of the way he was looking , his parted lips , his wondering eyes , she felt desire , a flicker of it , the first sign , the first time for months , a movement like a string being plucked where she thought her womb was . |
| 38 | ‘ Sit where you are , Bill , ’ said the blind man . |
| 39 | What we perceive or what another species perceives ? |
| 40 | Tug looked sideways , towards the valley on the right , and recognized where they were . |
| 41 | When the trucks paused while negotiating a particularly tricky turn , and Rain recognized where they were and that it was a good place to be , they climbed out and took a short route out of the old town and back to the hotel . |
| 42 | ‘ A good thing you were near Gullholm when the engine failed or you 'd never have survived . ’ |
| 43 | But I 've just realised where we might find some of the answers we 're looking for . ’ |
| 44 | I 've just realised where it was taken . |
| 45 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 46 | And somebody might laugh or something with something . |
| 47 | There we would be , pistols at dawn and I 'd laugh or he 'd laugh and it would all be over . |
| 48 | The points about joint responsibility for assets , liabilities and profits apply whether a band member is dismissed or he or she leaves voluntarily . |
| 49 | ‘ I did n't tell you before , because I did n't want you thinking it was n't convenient to come and stay or something , darling ! ’ she 'd told her apologetically over coffee after lunch . |
| 50 | Rural Britain is full of retired brigadiers and industrial captains , chaps who got where they were through diplomacy , cunning and an instinct for knocking heads together when the bugle blew . |
| 51 | ‘ Neither of us , sister , got where we are today by toeing the line . ’ |
| 52 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 53 | Like how you got where you are . |
| 54 | I see myself as one of these animals , and I await with resignation but with confidence the moment when either I live out my life as providence decrees or I die as prescribed , convinced that I shall thus be useful in two ways , first to France and then to humanity . |
| 55 | I mean where we could dummy into the war here so the war starts in thirty nine so unless you 've got good reason to believe that consumption was n't affected until nineteen forty , we use a dummy for the whole war period once you 've edited , once you 've edited the variable you press the end key that saves the edit . |
| 56 | things , I mean where we went |
| 57 | Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong . |
| 58 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 59 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 60 | I mean where you buy the , the thing from you 'd think the seldom , the spares as you want them about every four months |