Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ I have to eat about five times a day , or I just stop in my tracks . ’
32 Or I just sit there , not even asleep .
33 or I just wait till the mix .
34 Oh I see , yes , yes , I , huh , yes I would do , I , I , I would say in quite definitely that these words are inspired by such a such artist and , make it quite clear that I 'm a writer and not a , I , I , I do n't study art or I just do n't understand science and painting and , and its my responses to that , yes .
35 Either I am too heavy or I just do n't do it right .
36 And I just have to go to or I just have to sort of explain that when you pack a van , you do n't pack it like the advert for KitKat .
37 Chamberlain was explicit about his motives in a letter to Beatrice Webb : ‘ It will remove the great danger , viz , that public sentiment should go wholly over to the unemployed and render impossible that state sternness to which you or I equally attach importance .
38 The outside stitches can now be removed , or I sometimes leave them as a trimming , worked in a contrasting colour .
39 When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince .
40 I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them .
41 And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now .
42 Now if he happens to knock it or he , he lights it up or I always wake up .
43 Now erm in the main the most the people who go and talk , if they talk genuinely to their their other half or I always say partner instead of , nowadays that 's politically correct I think , erm then they so they 're they 're a lot of the times they 're talked out of it .
44 I still shop in J Sainsbury 's or my fanmily say I get withdrawal symptoms !
45 And I 've , I was , I do n't know if it was Michael or somebody else told me that they would n't insure it .
46 So if we make a list of what we 've got when you have a video night , if you or , or somebody else has the video list , you can say , well if you bring them back
47 A person may buy something in good faith , but may find out afterwards that the seller had no title to it , perhaps because the seller or somebody else stole it .
48 I have always enjoyed going to Highfield Holiday park and to Clacton because I know that when you get there , there always seem to be a lot of people who make the effort to welcome people to the Holiday park and they have always seemed friendly and if anything was wrong i.e. you lose something or somebody accidentally falls and hurts themselves or indeed somebody else the staff are always quick to help and so are a lot of other people who are on holiday there .
49 Rfereee Robbie Hart saw intent where nobody else did and Jan Molby smacked in the penalty .
50 Yet we must be careful not to use these observations as an excuse to disregard those features of the story which do not immediately appeal , or which immediately appal .
51 ( 3 ) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions , regard may be had to the previous conduct and activities in business or financial matters of the person in question and , in particular , to any evidence that he has — ( a ) committed an offence involving fraud or other dishonesty or violence ; ( b ) contravened any provision made by or under any enactment appearing to the Bank to be designed for protecting members of the public against financial loss due to dishonesty , incompetence or malpractice … ( c ) engaged in any business practices appearing to the Bank to be deceitful or oppressive or otherwise improper ( whether unlawful or not ) or which otherwise reflect discredit on his method of conducting business ; ( d ) engaged in or been associated with any other business practices or otherwise conducted himself in such a way as to cast doubt on his competence and soundness of judgement .
52 Colloquially , it means man-made chemicals or synthetic chemicals — ones that do not occur in nature , or which only occur naturally in very small quantities , compared to the amounts that we manufacture .
53 The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians .
54 Firstly , there are concerns that genetic engineering may , inadvertently , produce new pathogens that are detrimental to the environment by interacting with naturally occurring species or which adversely affect human health .
55 The breakdown of capitalism and the advent of a new form of society are conceived and explained as the outcome of the way a particular structure — the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society — works , not as the product of a historical process ; and the post-capitalist societies which can be foreseen , or which actually exist , may be as varied as were feudal societies or the absolutist states .
56 Nor did he want to do anything prematurely which put a question mark against the potential of the United Nations or which unnecessarily provoked the USSR .
57 ( ii ) at all times at least one share in the body must be so held either by a member who or which is a solicitor or a recognised body and who or which beneficially owns that share ; or by a member who or which holds that share as nominee for a solicitor or for a recognised body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a solicitor .
58 ( ii ) at all times at least one share in the body must be so held either by a member who or which is a solicitor or a recognised body and who or which beneficially owns that share ; or by a member who or which holds that share as nominee for a solicitor or for a recognised body or for a receiver appointed under section 99 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of a solicitor .
59 But ‘ the state ’ can not claim anything : only the government of the day , or its duly empowered agents , can .
60 Liz has been appointed customer services manager with Skipton Building Society , where she previously held a management post in the commercial lending department .
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