Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I realised that men in politics had dominated world attitudes for long enough and although they claimed to be experts on everything , my experience showed that they understood very little .
2 The profit was down thirty million or so and if we look at the geographic breakdown of profit , er the U S A was up er and yet if er Addison Wesley was about the same Penguin was up ten so where did this thirty million drop in profits at oil services arise , was it in the U K and Singapore as opposed to the U S or , or was there something different about Penguin U S compared with Penguin U K ?
3 The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand .
4 Afterwards , they lay silently together and as he thought of the recent conversation with Giancarlo he slowly ran his finger along her hip-bone and down towards her inner thigh .
5 HERMS allows designers to record associate information about parts , ie which parts are assembled together and where they live in space .
6 When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend .
7 Shirley Armitage does n't give up easily and when it comes to vital care for her elderly mother , she 's prepared for a battle .
8 or touching it and that pad should be big enough to cover the wound , so you should something , overlaps , alright , and then if you find , if you unwrap the roll a little bit further , you do n't want to unroll it completely , your see that if while you 're using it in practice you need to roll it up again backwards towards the back of the bandage like so , we 'll roll it up again , backwards and when you get to the bandage you just fold the bandage up around the long end and wind the short end round it firmly and there it 's ready for use again in practice , you would n't of course do that for real would you ?
9 In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone .
10 Far too quickly and when he left for Oman , I felt that aching void which , after decades of marriage , never lessened when he and I separated to travel alone .
11 Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them .
12 Once and if they learnt of what was going on in their own backgardens , they may change their views .
13 We were going to once but when it came to it you did n't have the money for the licence .
14 it 's way down the I mean all these people go , Oh it 's people are n't using the english language properly but if you look at the english
15 Avoiding the foods in question may be quite difficult , especially at school or with friends , and you may wish to reconsider other options , especially if your child is not affected all that severely or if he reacts to a great many foods .
16 Wait until you get , what , do you want it now or when you go to bed , take it to bed ?
17 I was due to start Lord Hulton 's tuberculin test at 9.30 a.m. and as I drove round the back of the Elizabethan mansion to the farm buildings nearby I felt a pang of misgiving ; there were no animals in sight .
18 Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ?
19 ‘ Always wash your hands before you work with food , and before and after you attend to the personal needs of a resident . ’
20 Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back .
21 It is possible that they were taken to northern France ( Brittany ) by Cornish refugees about 1,500 years ago and that there continued to be trading between the two regions for several hundred years ; there is certainly a theory that the Breton cattle originated largely in Cornwall .
22 alright and if you look at the diagram on page thirteen and you look at the little arrow diagram you 'll see that it gives it quite nice and clearly there is that alright ?
23 Mr alright but when he gets in a bad mood .
24 Well the the or residual element er if you take out the I have n't got this figure actually to in this little table I 've got here but if you bear with me one moment .
25 It looks alright on the surface , you 're not going through a hassle at the moment , and our memories are short , fortunately and once we come into a calm patch the hassles of yesterday are quickly forgotten .
26 I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys
27 selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ?
28 And er there was a hand basin in there and when you went into
29 Cos he used to go shooting there and and they went in there and they should n't of done because Michael told them I 'd taken meadows back and he sa , he said when Tony told them , they , they 'd been there shooting he said well they 're , they 're out of bounds !
30 I had been born on Easter Sunday 21 years earlier and as I went into the water , I thought : ‘ Laddo , you 're going to die on Easter Sunday , too ’ .
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