Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Well , perhaps I wo n't light the fire until half past eleven or something to try and make it go that bit further .
2 After jointing and gluing ( be careful where you stop and start your tongues ) , two pieces can be cut off to finish at four and a half inches each .
3 My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has made it clear where we stand and we now want to know where the Labour party stands .
4 It is on this that I lie and visualize the various ‘ assaults ’ upon my cancer cells that I have already described .
5 It seems clear that they do and that a comprehension of such differentiation and its basis is part of the apparatus of significant agents , and in particular of speculative builders , in their own active differentiation of locales .
6 Jacqueline made it clear that she disapproved and eventually told Catherine to move out .
7 It is surely conceivable that she heard and had pity on us …
8 She says ; They all do it on bikes on the high wire so he wanted to do something different so he went and put shopping baskets on his feet .
9 The street ahead was clear so I slowed and risked a look in the mirror .
10 Some are easier than they appear but many others prove much more difficult .
11 This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags .
12 Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words .
13 In a recent survey one in five incontinent women were afraid that they smelt and one in nine believed that sexual activity was compromised .
14 she does n't seem the type that would be a school teacher I mean the erm that erm seven , eight year old that she teaches and I just think what she 's like at school .
15 when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over
16 ‘ Some people expect a movie to be more than entertaining if they go and just laugh all the way through , they think there 's something wrong .
17 My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself .
18 Behind him , Pipkin shivered in the damp and he turned and nuzzled him ; much as the general , with nothing left to do , might fall to considering the welfare of his servant , simply because the servant happened to be there .
19 His steps grew brisker and he punched and thumped at shop doors , crashed padlocks against their cold chains and hanged his hands on the windows .
20 I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday .
21 Wolff 's algorithm is a clusterer because it forms and names these sets .
22 Unfortunately for his system , they break free while he sleeps and take over his story themselves .
23 After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed .
24 She will go free before I do and so long as she is captive will I be .
25 We never reckoned with this when we went and trounced the lairds ! ’
26 Quate would like to see the SAM used to watch polymer chains in rubber as they stretch and bounce back .
27 She knew that his Gothic romance and glossary were being turned down by publisher after publisher and he grew despondent as he rewrote and rewrote again .
28 It was light when she awakened and eased her limbs to a more comfortable position on the soft bed .
29 The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête .
30 ‘ They must always be careful when they adjust and react to television that they do n't change the nature of their sport .
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