Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened his eyes and cleared his mind of Camels and Albatrosses and Pups and Tripehounds , cleared his mind of everything but the thought of her beautiful body and the beautiful things she was doing with it , and for the next minute or so they were almost flying . |
| 2 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 3 | Heat the oil in a large casserole dish , add the meatballs and cook for 5–6 mins , or until they are evenly browned , turning them over frequently . |
| 4 | Most crucial of all , the royal couple themselves , with their thin permeable skins , will die if the atmosphere gets so hot and dry that they lose their body fluids or if they are badly chilled , and this may mean the end of the whole colony . |
| 5 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 6 | Or if they 're well grown , use a rake to collect them together for composting . |
| 7 | If all the chambers were as long as this , or if they were only used by people who had gone down deep into them , then his search would take months . |
| 8 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 9 | They do not apply if your employment is terminated during the term or if you are constructively dismissed . |
| 10 | So you got the whole spectrum of , or if you 're just doing it like French dictation , it wo n't , if words tend to just , to just be spoken language , right through to an immensely detailed erm , attempts to put everything down , including tone of the voice , and all these other ones which are extremely difficult to I think you noticed that I was standing looking at the transcriptions near each team . |
| 11 | See I do n't know if it 's just part real or if he 's just trying to frighten me . |
| 12 | He does n't now , whether they 've been a super star for a long time or if he 's never heard of them . |
| 13 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 14 | It is unknown how long Leapor worked for Susanna Jennens and the Chauncys , or if she was also employed at other houses . |
| 15 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 16 | Not for the first time she wondered cynically whether she craved Tyler Blacklock because he was tall , darkly handsome and unattainable , or because he was fast becoming a very rich and influential man . |
| 17 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 18 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 19 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 20 | One of the questions which must be answered is whether these do indeed show the predominant influence of Jamaican Creole or whether they are better described in terms of some other variety . |
| 21 | It does not appear to matter whether the learners are particularly interested in this input , or what they actually do with it , or whether they are actively engaged in achieving purposeful outcomes . |
| 22 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 23 | Since the good faith and honesty of the protesters were admitted by all concerned , this seemed to bring them within the statutory defence regardless of whether their beliefs were reasonable or whether they were universally held . |
| 24 | It was not clear whether the two latest bombs had been set to go off on Friday , like one discovered and defused on Sunday , or whether they were freshly planted . |
| 25 | The question was casual but Rachel thought she detected a flicker of interest in Louise 's blue eyes and she wondered if the stories about herself and David had reached the welfare office yet or whether she was simply becoming paranoid where he was concerned . |
| 26 | Whether she was just fainted or stunned from the shock or whether she was seriously injured , I would n't like to comment on that . ’ |
| 27 | They will not tell you whether a child is going to be a good citizen , when he 's nice to know or whether he 's well motivated . |
| 28 | I can well understand M M Mr Jewitt 's concerns , erm I think the simple fact of the matter is that not a great deal of Greater York new housing demand is likely to be generated in Hambledon district , whereas in Selby district a significant amount of er demand is likely to be generated , so really by way of conclusion I I would like through you to ask Mr Mr Jewitt if his opposition to the new settlement is as a matter of principle , or whether he 's really stating the case for Hambledon district , in other words , would he object to a new settlement in Selby district ? |
| 29 | I 'm not sure he 's an American or whether he was recently severed from his spouse . |
| 30 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |