Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation . |
| 2 | By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level . |
| 3 | He adds : ‘ I do n't like living like a big star — where everyone has the potential to hurt you or want something from you . |
| 4 | If the manager runs a sales team where everyone has the job title ‘ sales executive ’ , then that manager can only manage effectively when his or her team have regard for the manager 's active status over and above his or her overt status . |
| 5 | But it was quite impossible for the TCPA or me to bless the Plan unreservedly . |
| 6 | ‘ It draws all the Gentlemen to it whenever they are within , especially after Dinner , so that my Br Fanny & I have the Library to ourselves in delightful quiet . ’ |
| 7 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 8 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 9 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 10 | I turn for where I remember the door to be and see others pitching forward , slamming drinks down to cover their faces with their hands . |
| 11 | I I ca n't be sure where I got the information from but from that time until the end of my shift at ten P M I was gleaning information from all different directions about the and the connection . |
| 12 | JUNE 16 : Today I visited the Department of Trade and Industry , where I had the opportunity to pick up a copy of The Personal Protective Equipment Directive ( Directive 89/686/EEC ) , which as a every single-market fan will know , cam into force on July 1 , 1992 . |
| 13 | And if I wear where I had the eternity ring on and the engagement ring and the wedding ring |
| 14 | No lights came on where I figured the master bedroom probably was ; that comforted me a bit . |
| 15 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |
| 16 | I then got up and went into another room , where I found the father Delavaud , still clothed , and lying on the bed , dead . |
| 17 | Where I think the problem lies is that the Victorian age was one which stressed personal salvation and the individual soul . |
| 18 | A class for the Over 60s at the Dolphin Centre in Darlington takes up my Tuesday afternoon , where I play the piano . |
| 19 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
| 20 | the last week in September and it was the last week it was open , so you 're better of going near the middle or I mean the beginning or |
| 21 | Or I mean the flood of phone calls that have no doubt saved the erm Green Party . |
| 22 | Or I said the money you do n't spend . |
| 23 | I do my bedroom out every day — sweep it and dust the furniture and I do something else every day , like I dust the tops of the cupboards or I give the wardrobe a polish . |
| 24 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 25 | I have no problem with empowerment or I love the word empowerment , because I split it up empowerment increasing the power we all have , for God 's sake what 's jargonistic about that ? |
| 26 | ‘ I work with Mr Mitchell or I refuse the assignment , ’ she snapped , her suspicions again aroused at this insistence on women only . |
| 27 | Or I spend the weekend in bed , dozing , lounging |
| 28 | Some boy or somebody cut the phone , you saw that at the beginning . |
| 29 | I could always get Fenella or somebody to answer the phone and I was n't in the phone book , so I figured that if I chickened out , I could block her . |
| 30 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |