Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 2 | ‘ After all , you 're not Irish — or so you keep telling me . ’ |
| 3 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 4 | Men fear rejection , disdain and loneliness only because they have never experienced them or if they have experienced them , they have felt only the normal reactions of despair and unhappiness . |
| 5 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 6 | We can not of course attract and keep customers if we do not produce what they want to buy , if we do not control costs , if we do not hire the right kind of people , or if we fail to motivate them . |
| 7 | Or if we do sow it , we sow it in vast , sudden blocks — before a mission , for example — which may appear so artificial to those on the receiving end . |
| 8 | Or if I 'd seen it , I had n't taken it in . |
| 9 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |
| 10 | Then send the form to our FREEPOST address or if you prefer fax it or telephone our 24 hour hotline . |
| 11 | Or if you want to leave them with me and then I 'll , I 've got to have a walk up to post office in a bit . |
| 12 | If the bishop ca n't hear you or if you forget to say it , he will ask you you are saying yes to all that the spirit will give you ? |
| 13 | For the accused to be declared insane , he must be so diseased ‘ as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if he did know it , that he did not know he was doing what was wrong . ’ |
| 14 | Is this because they never had them or because they have lost them ? |
| 15 | If he can not do this quickly — either because you have not told him what questions you have answered , or because you have indicated them in an order that is not that in which you have attempted them — he is likely to be mildly annoyed . |
| 16 | Step I List all the behaviours that cause you concern , either because they are disappointing or because you want to encourage them . |
| 17 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 18 | Conversely , a long period may restrict the purchaser should he wish to make changes to the vendor management team ( either because they do not live up to first impressions or because he wishes to promote them within the enlarged group ) . |
| 19 | Had you phoned well I did n't know if you 'd phoned after I 'd rung you , or before I 'd rung you . |
| 20 | The D R one A is currently an excellent er tactical reconnaissance aircraft , all weather , at night etcetera and er it will go on well into the next century so there 's no great hurry to make a decision er one of the first points has got ta be decided is whether we carry the reconnaissance equipment in a pod under the aircraft replacing some of the other weapons or whether we try to build it in and er but taking first things first we have to get the requirement sorted out . |
| 21 | Erm then we wonder whether to offer people the chance of , you know , offer them a resit year or whether we want to ask them to withdraw asking people to withdraw is very rare actually , I have n't seen that done very often |
| 22 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 23 | The survey manager has located and designed the survey stations in the Chief Superintendent or whether he 's had them built . |
| 24 | or whether you want to leave it until as an out patient . |
| 25 | They had excuses , or as they preferred to describe them , fair and reasonable explanations , for all the problems which had beset the Dublin plant . |
| 26 | And you sign them up or when I say sign them up they 're er an account is opened |
| 27 | Finally , he comes to the conclusion that psychopathology plays no causative role in creativity , except in the choice of subject matter , and that where it does exist it stems from social causes ; for example the stress that the person of original mind experiences in being at odds with society . |
| 28 | Do not add fat to any of the food ( except where we have specified it ) , and preferably omit salt too . |
| 29 | We 're talking about a thousand covers , cos the actual extra cost of print once once you start printing it the run on cost is is negligible . |
| 30 | they were laughing and giggling up the corner and er , I mean I did go just to let them know that although I did say I would n't come to every meeting I was quite prepared to still do |