Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 .
2 But I ca n't see how any of them was physically capable of setting a trap like that or even knowing how to do it . ’
3 Well I went to in oh about twelve months after that or less say , and er she wanted a man there , I went down there and asked could I have a job back you know .
4 Do you want a lid to this or just holding it Tim ?
5 erm could actually do , so what we are saying here is it needs to be considered seriously in answer so you know we hope the Liberal Democrats will perhaps come in and support us on this or perhaps amend their motion and send this via the panel .
6 Could you comment on my own ideas to remedy this or perhaps suggest others ?
7 I mean what , what psychological characteristics would make one person more groupie than another or more needing or wanting or enjoying belonging to a group than another ?
8 It was this that finally resolved the men to organize a hunt .
9 It was this that finally scuppered her opponent .
10 And it is this that also characterises the responses of most of the correspondents who covered either Vietnam or Cambodia or both .
11 It was this that eventually scuppered Horner .
12 It 's small links like this that only fit together if you are quite alert when reading the book and remember small factors such as a yellow ribbon in a drawer and a gold locket around someone 's neck .
13 There 's more to this than just finding Mike before he gets to Bernard , is n't there ? ’
14 Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S.
15 Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time .
16 AMONG THE MANY letters we receive each week there are some that clearly merit publication , and not a few that clearly merit filing in the waste paper basket .
17 His words implied that there were two grades of fidelity : one which obliged a fidelis to promote his lord 's interests in all things , and another that simply bound him not to injure him .
18 If the government increases the money supply to increase the price level to engineer a fall in the real wage , actors can be expected to be fully aware of this and hence to adjust the nominal wage so that no real purchase on the economy can be obtained .
19 He ignored this and leisurely got into his undershirt .
20 The national dailies loved this and immediately jumped on Morrissey 's back in a typical display of hounding .
21 Alexander could see no point at all in doing this and flatly refused .
22 Turn the cooked sponge on to this and carefully peel off the paper .
23 He wondered if they 'd ever find husbands or boyfriends who would take them on such a holiday as this and rather doubted it .
24 Alongside this and particularly following the Exeter commission , Fowler also maintained his connection with his native county where he had a long-standing patron in William Courtenay , tenth Earl of Devon , his works including the Totnes bridge ( 1826–8 ) , a small group of churches , and alterations to the Earl of Devon 's Powderham Castle ( 1837–48 ) .
25 There was n't much point in pressing the bell so I fooled around with a small bunch of keys I keep for occasions like this and finally felt the tumblers turn in the lock .
26 Outsole wear patterns will support this and also tell which areas of the foot you usually strike on .
27 To avoid this and also to facilitate starting , engines are set to run about fifteen per cent rich on the ground .
28 Of performance against arousal levels and we agreed that the the purpose of training like this and also putting these principles into practice is to be able to handle more and more arousal er more and more nerves and still and still be able to perform in a confident manner .
29 The story tells us , at a literal level , how Hartleap Well received its name ; the curious prose preface emphasizes this and also conveys the idea of commemorating and preserving a tradition for posterity .
30 I 've always found it rather sad that a man could produce something as evocative as this and also produce a child who could not appreciate it. ,
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