Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Come on , Ruth , am I mega-dumb or something ?
2 He said that the car must be ready by 25th July 1948 or he would refuse to take delivery after that date .
3 An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing , executed by or on behalf of the appointer and shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : —
4 Where it is desired to afford members an opportunity of instructing the proxy how he shall act the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : —
5 An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing , executed by or on behalf of the appointer and shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : —
6 Where it is desired to afford members an opportunity of instructing the proxy how he shall act the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : —
7 You can either frost the cooled cake as usual or you can warm up the frosting and pour it over the cake like a glaze .
8 Sounded like seven fifty or something ?
9 Oh , it 's a basic wage but it increased to about two pounds fifty or something , because of the status of the job .
10 Cos usually , if it 's been cut off , there 's a about twelve fifty or something , to be reconnected .
11 Now even if you put that in your calculator and you get it wrong , and you get fifty or something .
12 I do n't know it 's a hundred and fifty or something .
13 Erm in the afternoon at St William 's College and I think that 's ab I do n't know what it 's about two pounds fifty or something .
14 And as I say that was fifty or something a week and it was n't was n't worth it really .
15 And he got two fifty or something .
16 pound fifty or something for like a shampoo and rinse I mean I 'd use it if I go in there .
17 Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’
18 I think Andrew 's was the funniest where he just jumps up , goes woof
19 The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors .
20 Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub .
21 Most of the work is bespoke design and making where a client has definite requirements ; the brief may be very specific or it may be quite open .
22 What the Everest of this world or Alpine or whatever ?
23 It may be one that is large and far-reaching or it may appear relatively small and trivial but … ( of ) special significance for the person who makes it is that his choice will help to determine the pattern of his unique development over time .
24 Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence .
25 ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment .
26 And you think that 's not just a sort of relatively recent phenomenon in the sense of you know , the sort of mid nineteen thirties or you think it 's always been there ?
27 Seated where he is , Rhys Williams knows one false move could mean the might of God descending on him at any moment .
28 ( Anyone would think you 'd been offered the leading role in the latest Spielberg epic , for God 's sake , you 're supposed to be depressed or something .
29 I think it 's a stigma that a lot of men feel they ca n't show that they 're depressed or they 've got a problem so they 'll pick up a ph , a phone .
30 In many cases they get very depressed or they even die , because their image of themselves is very much bound up with work and .
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