Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he goes if he comes he goes or if he brings a load of friends |
| 2 | Are you behaving like that to make people laugh or because it is what you honestly believe to be right . " |
| 3 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 4 | Does property pass when the letter is posted or when it arrives ? |
| 5 | Instead it is copied to the plaintiff together with new Form N236 which asks him to confirm whether he wishes the case to proceed or that he is withdrawing the action ( Ord 9 , r 2(7) ) . |
| 6 | When the need arises to review the search firms they are using or when there is a particularly sensitive issue , then which firm is contacted is clearly a very important issue . |
| 7 | We have to ask whether there was some failure in the mechanism of the quota arrangements , and whether they can be adjusted or whether there needs to be some compensation . |
| 8 | I might point out , for instance , you are still often unsure of what goes where and which item is which . ’ |
| 9 | And the barriers drop , so if you try and go through when the lights are flashing or if you try and go round the barriers the chances are the train 's getting nearer and nearer and could hit you . |
| 10 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where livestock belonging to any person strays on to land in the ownership or occupation of another and — ( a ) damage is done by the livestock to the land or to any property on it which is in the ownership or possession of the other person ; or ( b ) any expenses are reasonably incurred by that other person in keeping the livestock while it can not be restored to the person to whom it belongs or while it is detained in pursuance of section 7 of [ the ] Act , or in ascertaining to whom it belongs ; the person to whom the livestock belongs is liable for the damage or expenses , except as otherwise provided by [ the ] Act . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was teaching , but one of the reason things worked out so well for me was that I did n't have to worry how I would eat or where I would sleep . |
| 12 | We made one together , one each in step by step so we showed 'em what to do and then if you were n't sure you asked or if he was n't doing it right so they did it together technical erm situation . |
| 13 | But he gets very angry if they come up to him in a restaurant when he is eating or if he is busy talking to someone else , ’ says Marci . |
| 14 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 15 | That is not to say , however , that such moments do not exist or that they do not have a profound and often life-changing effect on the person who experiences them . |
| 16 | The fact that the Anonymous Fellowships are not run by the medical profession does not mean that they do not exist or that they do not work except for a handful of rather strange zealots . |
| 17 | The tremendous variation in the experiences of First , Second and Third World countries in terms of income , population , foreign trade , resources , quality of life and blocs might lead the faint-hearted to conclude that the global system either does not exist or that it is so hopelessly complex that there is no point in trying to conceptualize it at all . |
| 18 | As she watched her daughter run before her down the stairs , she thought , As long as he lives or until she escapes she 'll never be free to do what she likes . |
| 19 | No-one knew what anything cost or whether they were keeping within their budget . |
| 20 | HINTS FOR BUDDING BECKERS AND GRAFS , STUNNING FURNITURE , WHAT 'S HAPPENING WHERE AND LOTS MORE |
| 21 | The way we cope depends on many factors , such as whether the particular answer really matters or whether it is being used as a vehicle to introduce , or work on , ‘ specialising ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Accordingly , on the fall of the hammer the property of this car passed to King unless that prima facie rule is excluded from applying because of a different intention appearing or because there was some condition in the contract preventing the rule from applying . ’ |
| 25 | He gave the jury a list of Meehan 's past convictions , knowing that he was prevented by the rules of evidence from telling them that Waddell was at that moment serving a sentence in Barlinnie for wounding or that he had served a previous sentence for perjury at Meehan 's trial . |
| 26 | When questioned further very few of them thought of this God or power as a man , but either as a person without a body or as something like air or gas , and a few said they did not know or that there was no God . |
| 27 | They never did know or if they did they were n't saying . |
| 28 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 29 | The authors warn visiting foreign scientists that their presence in the USSR will be used by the KGB to show that Sakharov is forgotten or that his exile is at least accepted . |
| 30 | In the next story in the Gospel , John the Baptist sent some disciples to Jesus to ask if he was the one who was to come or whether they should begin to look elsewhere . |