Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hire a bike or bring your own . |
| 2 | And even if no fingerprints could be found on it , even if several of the tourists had already discarded or misplaced their own sheets , there would not be too many Americans , surely , who regularly wrote their sevens with a continental bar across the downstroke . |
| 3 | Version 4.0 operates as a command language for application developers wishing to integrate or migrate their own sub-routines into the environment , but there is a point and click module available for non-technical users . |
| 4 | The House might decide to act on its own by appointing a committee to inquire into the matter or a private member might move resolutions or introduce his own measure . |
| 5 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 6 | Fewer people grow their own vegetables or make their own soup . |
| 7 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 8 | Choose one of the many pre-cut stencil designs on the market , or make your own from card . |
| 9 | Bear in mind that bread from a bakery can contain additives although it does not have to be labelled — buy bread from a healthfood shop or make your own . |
| 10 | One or more cages for the caterpillars-you can buy these ( see address on p. 60 ) , or use the spider cage ( Chapter 1 ) or make your own special caterpillar cage . |
| 11 | Or make your own fabric tie-backs ( see instructions on page 20 ) . |
| 12 | You can either buy a ready-cut type or make your own , tracing the design from a pattern elsewhere in the room , such as the curtains or the carpet . |
| 13 | You may think you stand on your own , or have your own choices , or make your own fate , but you do not do so . |
| 14 | For those who claimed to have seen or heard it all before , racism was always the same old story . |
| 15 | During this stage , the government may accept amendments or amend its own bill if deficiencies in drafting come to light . |
| 16 | Does ‘ mediation ’ mean adjudicating , dominating or pursuing their own interests ? |
| 17 | One of the implications of the Kentish monopoly of certain materials and sources is that other areas must have been either dependent on the Kentish elite for such goods , or sought their own exotic goods by making contacts with elites elsewhere , that is , entering into an entirely different network . |
| 18 | People often ask questions to bolster your status as presenter or to bolster their own status in the audience . |
| 19 | Neither should quotations be used to express an opinion and thereby avoid expressing your own opinion or using your own words . |
| 20 | Put another way , the more the teacher is explicit about what behaviour is wanted , the less opportunity the pupils have to come to it for themselves and make the underlying knowledge or understanding their own . |
| 21 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 22 | Go to his office and make a scene , or send him some flowers there with a really embarrassing message , or something . |
| 23 | Currently , real-time operating systems tend to be optimised for either low end , mid-range or high end applications , and customers either buy VRTX , go somewhere else or build their own system . |
| 24 | Within many sites , however , there are ranges of buildings which often occupy enclosed strips of land not unlike medieval crofts , suggesting that some people , craftsmen included , were raising their own produce or keeping their own pigs and fowl . |
| 25 | He did not look up , or say anything more . |
| 26 | Add to this the fact that many people no longer have the time to bake their own bread and cakes or grow their own vegetables and you will see how the situation has changed even in the years since the end of the war . |
| 27 | When music historians coin or appropriate their own terms ( e.g. Ars Nova ) , they themselves can define the stylistic and chronological boundaries and guarantee that the two are congruent . |
| 28 | Casuals or employing their own men , what they want I suppose |
| 29 | Ken and Pat Ferguson would like to re-cover your dining-chair seats for a labour charge of only £5 each plus the cost of fabric , which you can choose from a selection of pieces available in stock at reduced prices , or supply your own fabric . |
| 30 | He felt as he always did on the moor , and especially on this spot and on Big Allen , peaceful , without care , without self almost , at one with nature and the past , and as if nothing that happened down there could hurt or vex him any more . |