Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | alright , they move it out of Switzerland but if we ca n't have it here we 'll have it in Pakistan or somewhere where they want the money ! |
| 2 | If it 's Derry or somewhere else I do n't mind as long as the move is right for me . |
| 3 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 4 | For instance , man — or perhaps here I should say men — lack the huge canine teeth which distinguish the male great apes . |
| 5 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 6 | That is to say , whether or not records of achievement can coexist alongside GCSE or will , in the end , be defeated by it or perhaps even itself defeat GCSE will depend very largely on the curricular developments of the next few years . |
| 7 | ‘ But unfortunately , or perhaps fortunately I ought to say because the Press is here , that sort of sentence is not open to me . ’ |
| 8 | Oh yes that 's that 's er more or less well it 's the nearest approach to pe to er what do they call it ? |
| 9 | Joel Swanson did not understand , nor did he ever expect to understand , exactly what was going on , but the kind of activity he seemed to be hearing about , in snatches only , was more or less exactly what he 'd expect from his wife 's relatives . |
| 10 | I 've done a terrible thing and I 'm being chased right now Vic well more or less like you know . |
| 11 | After a brief spell in a florist 's shop , she entered Morrison & Gibb in November 1909 , aged 15 , and worked there more or less all her life . |
| 12 | Well I suppose more or less all my life . |
| 13 | I mean , it 's like the jeans , I say , for Laura I paid fourteen ninety nine for a pair there , and eleven ninety nine for the other pair , well I 've been and got myself two pair cos I mean , it 's more or less all I wear just a , a couple of weeks before , and I 'd only paid twelve ninety nine a pair for my own ! |
| 14 | Yet it is important to realise that in the last decades of the old régime in France the parlements were often expressing more or less accurately what public opinion there was on the issues at stake , and that they had frequently widespread popular support for their attitudes . |
| 15 | But I mean more or less so You 'll probably get a feel for when you 've got things . |
| 16 | You have effectively trained her to believe that if she only throws tantrums loudly or long enough she will eventually get a ‘ payoff ’ from a relenting ( or exhausted ) mother or father . |
| 17 | This allows the development , at one end , of a spreading , shallow-pool arrangement 30 cm ( 12 in ) or so deep which can be readily converted into a bog garden . |
| 18 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 19 | Shortly after Anna was born her mother married , and a year or so ago her husband died leaving her the house and a little money . |
| 20 | Six months or so ago nobody thought this could possibly happen . |
| 21 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 22 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 23 | When I first wrote ‘ you ’ a paragraph or so ago I meant it in the general , anonymous sense , universal second person . |
| 24 | A year or so ago I motored for the fun of it through Latvia and Estonia , from Riga to what was then still Leningrad , and never thought to encounter such ramshackle roads again . |
| 25 | If asked 10 years or so ago I would have said Pseudotropheus elegans , Ps. livingstonii , Ps. lanisticola , and an undescribed species ( still ) known as Ps. ‘ livingstonii likoma ’ . |
| 26 | I did n't know any details , but a month or so ago I had a row with my uncle and he said then that I must n't count on anything from him ; if I did I 'd be disappointed . ’ |
| 27 | A month or so ago I sat in an excessively warm room listening to a gentleman from Intel 's processor division telling the invited audience of dealers and journalists that 1992 would see a boom in 486 sales similar to the boom in 386 bought about by Windows . |
| 28 | A week or so ago I heard — others may have done so , too — Lord Cockfield assert that ’ the British people had no moral right and probably no legal right ’ to resist the demands of a federal Europe . |
| 29 | No , what I mean is er the new one sort of thing , the new Cher , it 's in the top thirty , it was about number three a month about a month or so ago I did n't know there was anything else |
| 30 | But Spittals is going to want to see results in a day or so otherwise we 're off to do some time on that robbery job . ’ |