Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that bastard , did n't know where he was gon na , he was indicating but I did n't know whether he was gon na just go on or what he was gon na do . |
| 2 | It was like that night when I woke up and the hurricane was there , I could n't turn my lights on or nothing I was shitting myself . |
| 3 | Other useful people may be the secretary of a committee you 've served on or someone you 've done temporary work for . |
| 4 | Oh I suppose he 's invested it wrongly or whatever I do n't know I I can understand why they did n't come to his rescue , you know , I mean , they 've got their livelihood to think about and he was a bachelor where as they 've got children , or and he 's brothers and they 're |
| 5 | And then he said I 'm always here and I do n't know whether he 's supposed to come down or what it is but as I said to him it 's a load of codswallop . |
| 6 | I think all the lads are the same , they 're all kind of into-themselves people , not loud or anything which I think is nice . |
| 7 | I do n't know if it shuts at five o'clock or what they do or if evening staff come on ? |
| 8 | and then you have to wire erm plumb it in or whatever they call it |
| 9 | The scope of the Cash Accounting Scheme , whereby traders have to pay VAT to Customs only once they themselves have been paid by their customers , is also to be extended . |
| 10 | But as usual Nan seemed to know better than everyone what to do . |
| 11 | ‘ But if they ca n't be shifted , there 'll never be room for you , no matter how much better than them you may be at the job . ’ |
| 12 | Actually I think somebody who gets a CSE grade 1 has to be very good , far better than somebody who can only just scrape an ‘ O ’ level grade C … |
| 13 | As far as the grades allotted to the candidates are concerned , a conscientious and uninterested student may very well do better than one who is imaginative and perhaps wayward . |
| 14 | First , on average , a better-educated person is likely to do the same job better than one who is less educated . |
| 15 | Take our kids away from us because you reckon you know what 's good for them better than what we do ? |
| 16 | And , it seemed to me that when I , as the er your representative on Provincial Finance Committee is asked to make a co , commitment for this , for this for er for nineteen ninety three I could say no better than what we had as out target this year and that was hard ! |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that there is much to be commended in general in his decision to reduce the infantry battalions by only 12 , 13 or 14 per cent. , which is a great deal better than what he did for the Regular Army ? |
| 18 | She said : ‘ I thought my father deserved better than what he got . |
| 19 | Yeah , Jacqueline did better than what she did . |
| 20 | Oh better than nothing I suppose ! |
| 21 | It took an enormous amount of discussion to persuade me that we had enough intrinsic skills to mount a successful oil operation , but those closer to the competition and the marketplace knew better than I their own relative abilities . |
| 22 | No one knew better than he their stubbornness and volatile fickleness , demonstrated repeatedly after the Exodus from Egypt . |
| 23 | It is often tempting to think that some critic you have read can summarise your viewpoint better than you yourself can , and so to end your essay with a quotation from someone else . |
| 24 | ‘ He fits your theory better than anyone we 've come up with so far . ’ |
| 25 | He said in a letter to shareholders : ‘ I believe that I know better than anyone what makes Amstrad operate and what needs to be done in order to secure its future . |
| 26 | You can lift a wallet better than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 27 | ‘ Billy can motivate players better than anyone I know … ’ |
| 28 | Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy . |
| 29 | ‘ NIRVANA HAVE made an LP which is not only better than anything they 've ever done before , it 'll stand up as a new reference point for the future post-hardcore generation , ’ confirms Steve Lamacq , as ‘ Nevermind ’ makes a gigantic , instantaneous cross-over , welcomed by all of the diverse colonies like hardcore , HM — anybody that 's partial to vitriol and cool tunes , attitude and your classic , penned-in teenage howl . |
| 30 | They are fast-moving , colourful , noisy , and as good if not better than anything you can buy for home computers . |