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 | Neither of these reasons for creating assemblies at the district and provincial levels implied a desire to make them broadly representative or to give them much clout , but as the draft legislation passed through the upper reaches of the government keen reformers got their hands on it . |
| 17 | The men were too busy working or having their enjoyment , or in bed — that 's been life ! |
| 18 | Highlighting Labour 's key theme of the NHS , he said voters faced a stark choice : to build up the health service under Labour or to break it up under the Conservatives . |
| 19 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 20 | Do the Labour Party want it banned to reduce smoking or to increase it ? |
| 21 | Amidst this confusion , my view of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ as a hyperlucid footnote to Crime and Punishment , as misconceived crisis and clarity , needs justifying : the very point of Stavrogin 's scattering of ‘ reasons ’ is that he and his document shall not come clear or clinch anything . |
| 22 | The restoration of the monarchy and its patronage proved a particularly valuable source of wealth and position to those who had remained faithful or changed their allegiance with a careful eye to the future . |
| 23 | Whether your hair is naturally curly or permed it needs extra special care to keep it in tip-top condition . |
| 24 | Do n't get your hopes too high or let yourself get too carried away after all you know what people are like . |
| 25 | Respect for their seniors was near the top of the list … however high or humble they might be . |
| 26 | For the widowed or divorced there was no difference between those with and without children nor any significant trend with the number of children . |
| 27 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
| 28 | So be it when I shall grow old or let me die . |
| 29 | But Charlotte , Emily and Anne Brontë did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame . |
| 30 | Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem . |