Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a co-ordinator 's retired or resigned who do you actually communicate with to find out if the group wants to continue playing |
| 2 | The problem is that when a parent is feeling depressed or overwrought it is difficult for them to think of alternative strategies . |
| 3 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 4 | ARE Soaps just right or do you think we need more fun ? |
| 5 | The employers acknowledged that management should accept responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce them . |
| 6 | Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves . |
| 7 | First then the proposition that management should accept a responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or to reduce them . |
| 8 | Profoundly deaf pupils will almost certainly need modification of the speaking and listening component , especially if they were born deaf or lost their hearing before acquiring language . |
| 9 | You could wank each other off — dry or using lots of lube — or press , rub and slap your dick against his dick , buns , face , chest , thighs … |
| 10 | The Minister must have been asleep or doing something else when I raised my final point about the article in the education press in Scotland about the middle of last year . |
| 11 | There is also some satisfaction to be gained from being deliberately rebellious or doing something outrageous and saying ‘ F*** you ! ’ to your own conventions for a night . |
| 12 | We do not wish to perform poorly or to undercut our objectives . |
| 13 | Does being brave mean being strong or overcoming our fears ? |
| 14 | … neither suffer them through negligence to mould and be moth-eaten or want their strings and covers . |
| 15 | Do you think that 's , do you think that 's what what you 've experienced there , do you think that 's untypical or do you think that 's a fairly good example of of of life in that part of Westerhailes ? |
| 16 | You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him , for you were strangers in the land of Egypt . |
| 17 | It 's that or hacking it with the hammers . |
| 18 | The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’ |
| 19 | It was either that or dump herself on to the perch in a heap , having given up the struggle , and she was much too graceful and proud to let something as undignified as that happen . |
| 20 | Supposing a fitter leaves the oil plug out of the car , there 's a leak , the oil drains out of it and it causes some damage , but that damage does n't appear until a thousand/two thousand miles later , are you going to exclude that or cover it ? |
| 21 | Erm I do recognise some faces , I know some of you recognise me and eh cos we 've done quite a lot of things together , but this afternoon what I 'm going to tell you about is how I fit in with Council , I do n't think any of you know that or know what the Local Government Unit is . |
| 22 | Does your wife do that or does somebody else do that , why not just ask me the question who does the gardening |
| 23 | Well why does n't , ca n't he do something about that or does he |
| 24 | ‘ Christ , ’ said Billy , ‘ you supposed to drink that or eat it , ’ and gave his usual raucous laugh . |
| 25 | Is the intention to palletize that or to leave it as it is . |
| 26 | And then , I either leave it like that or turn it to one . |
| 27 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |
| 28 | office place and give him a bag of plaster and tell him to plaster there for a day either that or send him up |
| 29 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 30 | okay any extension on that or do we come straight through to you ? |