Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Shortly afterwards officers smashed their way into Mrs Curran 's bungalow where they found the victims ' bodies in separate rooms .
2 If he remembered our meeting in the subway or my relationship to my aunt , very correctly , he gave no sign .
3 I mean , is it a new management technique or something ?
4 Other criticisms of the Ridley ruling appear to show scant regard for the integrity of the retailer or its competitiveness .
5 Did you get all monies applied for or only part payment or none at all ? !
6 If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job .
7 If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job .
8 the name of the game is to race over the mountains … you can either go flat out for the fastest time … or take a treasure hunt sort of trail where you find and check in at remote control points … the route you find yourself …
9 Whether it was her housekeeping or anything , he always let her down .
10 Two lads , went up to them and says get off that bike or we 'll pull you off !
11 She would n't give any explanation , so I assumed it was to collect a present that was too big to hide at home , like a bike or something .
12 A bike or something ? ’
13 Section 11(1) of the 1968 Theft Act provides : … where the public have access to a building in order to view the building or a part of it , or collection or part of a collection housed in it , any person who without lawful authority removes from the building or its grounds the whole or part of any article displayed or kept for display to the public in the building or that part of it or in its grounds shall be guilty of an offence .
14 Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above .
15 The proposals covered are development in a conservation area , works to a listed building or which affect the setting of a conservation area or a listed building , and developments in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty .
16 ‘ Building operations ’ , for instance , include rebuilding operations , structural alterations of , or additions to , buildings and , somewhat curiously , ‘ other operations normally undertaken by a person carrying on business as a builder ’ ; but maintenance and improvement works which affect only the interior of the building or which do not materially affect the external appearance of the building are specifically excluded .
17 So if he asks you questions about the building or whatever then du n no
18 Folly can mean a useless building or it can mean a clump of trees on a hill .
19 ( 2 ) The offences referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) above are offences of stealing anything in the building or part of a building in question , of inflicting on any person therein any grievous bodily harm or raping any woman therein , and of doing unlawful damage to the building or anything therein .
20 Everybody knows — including I think members of the Council from all three political groups — everybody knows that we 've got increasing numbers of elderly people , we 've got increasing numbers of disabled and mentally ill people in the community , and if there is one service , and I know there are others , but if there is one service that needs constant new growth it 's Social Services , and that 's not me empire building or anything like that , that 's me simply saying in straight managerial terms there are forces which require us to increase the Social Services budget .
21 William kept close to Hari 's side , though for his own protection or hers Hari was n't sure .
22 Heinrich , reeling after several glasses of schnapps , held carefully on to Emily 's arm ; whether for her protection or his , he did not question .
23 Judicial notions of justice must generally give way to those expressed by Parliament where they are inconsistent .
24 There is a point in moving him to London because that is near the Houses of Parliament where he has weight .
25 Young people do not want to live in them , when as often as not work means agriculture or nothing .
26 We get our , we 're very lucky because as I travel ov in the country , there 's lot 's of Co-ops as the Guilds do n't get the grant or they do n't get room rent .
27 because there is n't a grant or there is n't whatever it is and you know and , and how you actually manage to er cope with that yourself .
28 Downstairs wastes ( from the kitchen sink , for example ) can be taken out to a gully as in the older system , except that they must discharge below the level of the grid on the top of the gully , which means using a back-inlet gully or one with a hole cut in the grid .
29 So Mr went up and er he went a way up the hill , places that never a car or anything like that had been before because there were gullies and everything and he could have sank in the middle of a gully or something .
30 But this is a flexible and convenient resort where it 's easy to dabble in windsurfing for a day or two , and easy to choose between local culture , local sailing , or long day cruises .
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