Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [subord] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ ( 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No-one knew what anything cost or whether they were keeping within their budget . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | They never did know or if they did they were n't saying . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ESP felt that a third option should be available — to clean and test the pumps , to see if they needed to be repaired or whether they were still usable . |
| 22 | Numerous demonstrations were held as war approached and after it broke out , the largest protest being on Jan. 12 when 40,000 attended two rallies in Paris . |
| 23 | You ca n't away with er some bum figures like this one , it 's not good enough for the members to give , be given wrong information and I and I can tell you this we 'll be coming back again and then we would know and where they were getting where they were getting the seventeen homes |
| 24 | They can not tell us because they do n't know and because they are campaigning for power at any cost . |
| 25 | It was a while before these plans were divulged and when they were , Wilson 's first reaction was one of alarm . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Where a right of action to recover land has accrued and after its accrual , before the right is barred , the land ceases to be in adverse possession , the right of action shall no longer be treated as having accrued and no fresh right of action shall be treated as accruing unless and until the land is again taken into adverse possession … |
| 27 | " If he 's not honest , he 'll know we 're afraid to come and if he is , he 'll think we 're suspicious , cowardly skulkers . |
| 28 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 29 | Since vitamin C is water soluble any excess is excreted and so you do n't have to worry about taking too much . |
| 30 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |