Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 3 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 4 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 5 | effect so erm whether that means actually working directly for them or working for a company who specializes in erm the management of historic erm buildings or environments or areas . |
| 6 | Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred . |
| 7 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 8 | Neighbourhood Watches is organized er in the , there 's , we have a head coordinator i of each scheme which is er someone that lives in the area . |
| 9 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 10 | We must learn to hold ourselves and move with an economy of effort , using no more than the appropriate amount of energy for any activity . |
| 11 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 12 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 13 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 14 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 15 | If now " independence " is regarded as essential to basic existents , it is clear that nothing that depends upon a relation to something external to itself qualifies as a basic existent in the true sense of the word . |
| 16 | Definitely no pier and nothing that looked like a break in the reef . |
| 17 | There 's nothing that happens on the estate which I do n't know about . |
| 18 | News film of the General Assembly disturbance shows much shouting and placard waving but nothing that comes near the sort of heckling and barracking to which present-day government ministers are regularly subjected in visits to the north of England ! |
| 19 | There are three themes which stand out to me that run throughout the book that are all in some way or other interlinked . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose you sent me that gilgul as a friendly gesture , then , to lend a helping hand on the Gittel job . ’ |
| 21 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 22 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |
| 23 | A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance . |
| 24 | But they they always come and knock for me and you know they kicked that , you it was them that kicked down the walls ? |
| 25 | Yes , as a as a as a porter or a a a erm what they what used to call them that worked on the line , there was a special name for the li the people that read repaired the lines . |
| 26 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 27 | He was not , it appears , in any way responsible for the Montagu declaration — though he anticipated its thinking-but came on the scene shortly afterwards as one of the chief architects of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms . |
| 28 | The city was dominated by material problems like unemployment and housing , which although related to the issue of discrimination , were more obviously tackled by campaigns that focused on the issues themselves . |
| 29 | These rules were subsequently amended by the CMI , which although affiliated with the ILA acted as an independent entity . |
| 30 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |