Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose from chess on one side or if you fancy something a little less taxing on the mind simply turn the mat over and set the ‘ board ’ for a fun game of checkers — you could even use it to lie on when you come out of the sea ! |
| 2 | We 've got all the equipment , weights , cycles , rowing machines , or if you fancy something a little less strenuous , I take an aerobics class every morning around eleven . |
| 3 | Or unless you want her a bit what ti , Joanne Joanne comes in at quarter past six does she ? |
| 4 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 5 | ‘ She is n't important , never was important — except that she gave me a chance to get close to you again . ’ |
| 6 | For martial artists it mattered less what form you studied than that you made it a way of life . |
| 7 | Because that 's the thing like , although if she did something a bit more traditional , it 'd probably please the likes of us but when you think , the kids that are doing it , if she says oh we 're doing something out of Starlight Express it 'll be aah ! |
| 8 | Erm so that 's true , that if they give you the house , it is , it is an inheritance tax problem as well . |
| 9 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 10 | In fact I 've often said that if you show me a system which does n't have a performance problem then you 've shown me a system which is a failure . |
| 11 | assume that if you give them a population that owned seventy eight percent of the land and find out fifty percent of the land , then you , you know , you ca n't just give land , everyone 's not just gon na have land , you have to increase production to make everyone better off . |
| 12 | I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like , |
| 13 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
| 14 | When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it . |
| 15 | ‘ Read that while I get you a drink , ’ he said , handing her a piece of paper which she recognized as PA copy . |
| 16 | We would ask that before we send you a copy of the detailed memorandum you return to [ person ] at this address , the attached confidentiality undertaking typed on your own letter heading . |
| 17 | He almost had me going , but my Rule of Life No. 14 is that when somebody offers you the chance of a lifetime , they usually mean theirs , not yours . |
| 18 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 19 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 20 | so that when he sees you the next time , he 'll double check that . |
| 21 | She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page . |
| 22 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 23 | She carefully left enough of her father 's original hair tonic in the bottle so that when she gave it a good shake the whole thing still looked reasonably purple . |
| 24 | Although as I see it the facts do not fit easily into the existing category of duress or of claims colore officii , they shade into them . |
| 25 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 26 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 27 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 28 | I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life . |
| 29 | He told her that he was well and that he missed her a lot . |
| 30 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |