Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Where she always lived ; she never married . ’ |
| 32 | To the left , opposite the reception desk , in the parlour with the rubber plant and the lace half-curtains , where she sometimes had her breakfast ( if she was up before ten when Madame stopped serving it ) , she saw her grandfather , Sir Anthony Everard , erect against the window , with her young aunt his daughter beside him , Xanthe Everard , Miranda 's nursery playmate . |
| 33 | Paula spent most of her free time alone , window shopping , visiting News Theatres , where she sometimes watched the programme of cartoons twice round , and drinking endless cups of Espresso coffee in cafés and coffee houses . |
| 34 | Today she had brought sandwiches , as she wanted to spend her lunch hour writing personal letters , but she felt reluctant to reveal to this young man the name of the little restaurant near Westminster Abbey , run by gentlewomen , where she often lunched . |
| 35 | A public-school education led to a secretarial college where she suddenly rebelled , sought work as an artist 's model , entered Soho , quickly becoming an habituée and one of the stars in Muriel Belcher 's galère . |
| 36 | Go back to the west coast where you probably came from and join the other vagrants there . |
| 37 | ‘ I 'm telling the truth now ! — It was there ; where you just said : Seal Sands Lock . |
| 38 | It was the clipping and runnering where you almost heard the gear moan . |
| 39 | But paragraph ( a ) does not , in my judgment , give any substantive cause of action where none before existed . |
| 40 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 41 | So you actually became dependant on the tranquillizers did you or or or you simply had |
| 42 | In America that either means you made it , or you just got off the boat . |
| 43 | T.V. is relatively difficult to get onto , in terms of you taking the initiatives , you contact the B B C or I T V and say , ‘ I have a thing which you ought to have , ’ and unless it 's really outstanding , the chances are relatively small of getting on unless you are very lucky or you know somebody or you just hit the right spot at the right time . |
| 44 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 45 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 46 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 47 | The stock editor generally concentrated on stock revision and supervision of withdrawals , but in some authorities he or she also played a large part in the selection of new books . |
| 48 | He or she also settled expenses incurred since the deceased 's death , such as the cost of the funeral . |
| 49 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
| 50 | The burden of proof lies on the defendant , who may be convicted even though he or she honestly believed , on reasonable grounds , that what was published was true and a matter of public interest . |
| 51 | Only one visitor failed to say where he or she normally lived . |
| 52 | Mr Wakerley suggested Miss Dart might have tried to escape , or she may have screamed , or she possibly saw Sams undisguised and had to be killed . |
| 53 | To perform the court 's order could require the doctor to act in a manner which he or she genuinely believed not to be in the patient 's best interests ; to fail to treat the child as ordered would amount to a contempt of court . |
| 54 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 55 | The individual will work less and give more hours to leisure , but this is not what he or she originally wished to do , and his or her satisfaction or welfare is thus reduced . |
| 56 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 57 | There were lots of hopefuls who would have been journalists if they had pursued a career , or who now wanted to learn . |
| 58 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 59 | In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts . |
| 60 | ‘ In the United States , where we also produced an improved result , there are now some encouraging signs of recovery as rate increases in both Commercial and Personal lines begin to take effect . |