Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can offer you tea , coffee , or whisky if you 'd rather . ’ |
| 2 | Virgil or Dante or Homo or something ? ’ |
| 3 | It is selling its 20% stake in American cellular communications group McCaw to AT & T and there is speculation that it will use the proceeds to mop up Cellnet . |
| 4 | Have a bath or change or whatever before dinner ? ’ |
| 5 | It is true that this ‘ agreement ’ , or settlement as I would prefer to call it , had only been viable when lesbians and gays tolerated their own oppression , tolerated homophobic behaviour , tolerated heterosexist indoctrination , tolerated liberal tolerance . |
| 6 | ‘ You have n't got a brother or sister so you just do n't know , do you , how someone might feel ! |
| 7 | ‘ Neither my brothers or sister or I have any children , ’ said Pakeezah when her mother had finished telling the story . |
| 8 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 9 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 10 | You could use some of the dry transfer lettering that is available from most art shops , or ask your local framer or photographer if they could recommend a calligrapher to you . |
| 11 | But as soon as the name has merged with the object it designates , we must , conversely , resort to metaphor , allusion or allegory if we wish a more expressive term . |
| 12 | He says privatisation , or denationalization as he calls it , will make the railways run better . |
| 13 | I want to paint like Berthe Morisot , I do n't mean with her colours or forms or anything physical , but with her simplicity and light . |
| 14 | This month at Exit Art/The First World , the recently expanded art conglomerate founded ten years ago by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo , you can see the very same announcements by Rauschenberg , Duchamp , Rivers & Co that you may have thrown away — along with about 200 others — in ‘ The Design Show ’ , a survey of gallery invitations from the years 1940–92 . |
| 15 | ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering . |
| 16 | A recent survey by law firm Eversheds shows that a quarter of senior executives of medium and large-sized companies are considering changing their accountants , bankers or solicitors because they do n't get value for money . |
| 17 | If you feel shy about breastfeeding in public , wear a loose jumper or shirt so you can push it up and tuck your baby underneath . |
| 18 | Er minding motors outside the Arms and the Bridge Hotel every night , maybe only get sixpence or sevenpence cos there was n't that many cars about at the time . |
| 19 | whether we needed to go back for anything to go in the fridge or freezer If I got this page sort of full by the end of the week , people there were picking out their , they were getting tea bags and coffee and biscuits , you know for two pages full , I 've got one page full and of course with that I could get erm , packet of the Ferrera Roche |
| 20 | The rhetoric may point to extreme scepticism or Pyrrhonism but its users , if pressed , are likely to retreat to positions which are no more than a modified version of traditional ones . |
| 21 | If there 's a small bonus then which in fact pays the petrol for the assignment probably , er providing the Government do n't put another twenty P on a litre or gallon or whatever . |
| 22 | It 's called the Hotel Leisure and Conference Centre , it 's actually based at Chorley or Charley if you come from that neck of the woods and er everybody that goes will be able to use the lagoon swimming pool er or challenge someone to a game of squash on one of our six courts . |
| 23 | On a practical and down to earth level it is worth finding out what clerical support you are likely to get in the clinic or base where you will be working . |
| 24 | I have not written to any other directors or shareholders as I presume you are in a position to pass on this enquiry . |
| 25 | ‘ For those who like term shares , the best deals at the moment are from Stroud & Swindon where you get 10 per cent gross fixed until January on £5,000 or more , ’ says Willis . |
| 26 | Forest landowners could not even erect fences or hedges unless they were low enough to allow the deer to enter and leave , consequently crops were often destroyed by them . |
| 27 | But ask your doctor or midwife if you are unsure . |
| 28 | N.B. It should be noted that in Austria twin beds often consist of two separate mattresses attached to a single frame or headboard and they can not be separated . |
| 29 | Both had been in detention without charge or trial since their arrest following the coup d'état which brought Hafez al-Assad to power in November 1970 . |
| 30 | He had previously been arrested in May 1982 , when he was editor-in-chief of al-Yawm newspaper , and was held without charge or trial until he was released following an amnesty at the end of 1982 . |