Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps I mean a hurricane . |
| 3 | Or perhaps I made a mistake : you can see which I 'd rather believe . |
| 4 | or perhaps I make a rissole sometimes , but not put any onion |
| 5 | Or perhaps he had a premonition of the huge effort that lay ahead if he was to extricate France from a crisis in Algeria that had reached the verge of insolubility . |
| 6 | Or perhaps she took a swig of sherry . |
| 7 | But er it was quite interesting and er more or less you got a chance of going through the departments when you were before your time was out . |
| 8 | Whether they knew George Pittendrigh or not they felt a need to be solemn , to show at least an awareness of mortality . |
| 9 | It is the essential but usually overlooked fact that in any psychophysical experiment when , for example , subjects are asked whether or not they perceive a stimulus , their responses , verbal or otherwise , can not be relied on as accurate accounts of their conscious experiences . |
| 10 | But George Bartlett , QC , for the NGC , said : ‘ The inquiry 's time and cost would not be saved , because whether or not we express a preference for one of them , they will remain as alternatives before the secretary of State . |
| 11 | And Kollerstrom is quite mistaken in supposing that this part of the study could show whether or not there exists a threshold below which no effects occur . |
| 12 | Since they are objective the question of whether or not someone possesses a concept does not arise . |
| 13 | Whether or not you get a loan depends on many factors including a credit assessment . |
| 14 | What happens depends on whether or not you made a will to start with . |
| 15 | Top beauty therapist Janet Filderman , author of Perfect Skin ( Vermilion , £8.99 ) recommends letting your own skin be the judge of whether or not you need a moisturiser — do n't just apply it out of habit . |
| 16 | Whether or not you have a dog , display a sign on the front gate that says ‘ Beware of the dog ’ . |
| 17 | This has not only created severe problems for the national parliaments , who are finding the huge quantity of legislation difficult to scrutinise , it also represents a seepage of power to Brussels , since the best way of attaining power is simply to grab it , whether or not you have a mandate . |
| 18 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 19 | Everyday , people interact with one another and whether this is done informally or formally it involves a topic or string of topics . |
| 20 | Inside , the stove kept me warm while I cooked or whenever I made a mug of tea which was three or four times a night . |
| 21 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 22 | Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs ? |
| 23 | Or maybe you like a bit of both . |
| 24 | Or maybe you have a desire to ‘ expose ’ yourself in some way — perhaps as an artist or politician — but are blocking yourself through fear of humiliation or rejection ? |
| 25 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
| 26 | Sometimes Marie writes some stuff — poems and that , or else she reads a book . |
| 27 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 28 | Where the landlord retains adjoining property , or where he lets a building in separate parts , party structures must be considered . |
| 29 | When we were moving or when he thought a search was in the offing he 'd hide it in his underpants . |
| 30 | Throughout most of his working life he had lived above the shop at 32 Ludgate Hill , although latterly he occupied a house nearby in the Crescent , New Bridge Street , Blackfriars . |