Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because of their ephemeral nature and partly because disclosure would often reveal either that very sensitive subjects were under consideration or that we had something in train about which we were not ready to make an announcement . |
| 2 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 3 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 4 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 5 | Jasper wondered if the man in uniform had actually seen Chris on the roof of the car , had had a phone call from Kensington High Street that someone was on the roof of a car , or if he knew nothing except what that woman was telling him . |
| 6 | Or whether you saw it at all . |
| 7 | Or whether you scared him after to death ! |
| 8 | Going through Joe 's mind as he mounted the stairs were thoughts which were very similar , except that he expressed his in a slightly different way . |
| 9 | John Nutting , prosecuting , said that although he said nothing to detectives after his arrest , with a lock knife in his hand , they later found a chilling message daubed on his police cell wall . |
| 10 | Before they started , he had warned his people on this , pointing out that if they allowed themselves to be delayed , they themselves would be in grave danger of being ridden down by their own fellows on the return charge . |
| 11 | I think you 'll agree you 're in a much stronger position that if you left it for months , and then went back . |
| 12 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 13 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 14 | I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’ |
| 15 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 16 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 17 | At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way . |
| 18 | I found that if I immersed myself in what I was doing , the people respected my work and usually kept quiet , aware of my concentration . |
| 19 | The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples . |
| 20 | At first he was really quiet but I kinda changed that because I treated him like my brother by punching him ! ’ |
| 21 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 22 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 23 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 24 | ‘ You must have realised that when you summoned him to your hotel to break the news — ’ |
| 25 | I swear to you that when I kissed you in Ib 's Club it was simply because I could n't resist the temptation . |
| 26 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 27 | I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger . |
| 28 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 29 | I overcame this problem quite easily in the end : I just gave her less for supper when she was off my hand , got her weight down , say , half an ounce , and built up her appetite , so that when I had her on my fist she 'd be hungry . |
| 30 | I knew that when I sold it to you . ’ |