Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had eaten little or nothing most of the day . |
| 2 | It 's the league or nothing now for the Blues , beaten for the second week running and suffering their first defeat at Windsor Park since last December 16 . |
| 3 | The day was marred only slightly by the presence of a few of that fraternity who find out about all such events , spend the whole day taking photographs and video and contribute very little or nothing back into the hobby . |
| 4 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 5 | If she is to come to live with you , or someone else in the family , consideration should be given to arranging this along the lines mentioned in Chapter 3 . |
| 6 | Your child may need to know because you or someone else in the family is ill , or because he or she has HIV or AIDS . |
| 7 | Everyone will recognise themselves or somebody else in the song . |
| 8 | I think it was Oh What a Lovely War that I first remember seeing you round about the university . |
| 9 | Where you out on the front , . |
| 10 | Do you want another drink or you alright at the moment ? |
| 11 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |
| 12 | And you 'd expect some broken headlights or something here on the road . |
| 13 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 14 | a bairn or something all in the one . |
| 15 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 16 | It was nothing to do with me , or anybody else on the staff . |
| 17 | I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief . |
| 18 | Consequently , the sufferer increasingly cuts himself or herself off from the reality of life as presented by others and continues to blame them for their failure to provide unconditional love and " understanding " comparable to that experienced in the relationship with alcohol or with other substances or behaviour that lead to alteration of mood . |
| 19 | Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world . |
| 20 | Perhaps your correspondent could enlighten us as to the best method of preventing unwanted teenage pregnancy , bearing in mind that young people will always form sexual relationships , regardless of the wishes of their parents or anyone else to the contrary . |
| 21 | I 'm not sure that Hogan or anyone else at the top of the game could have withstood such punishment without seeking help . |
| 22 | He insisted : ‘ There was no fall-out with Glentoran 's new manager Rob Strain — or anyone else at The Oval . |
| 23 | Put in its simplest way , the principle of inverse irreversibility means that a scientist , or anyone else in the business of forming some general ‘ law ’ by which the Universe , or a very large portion of it , is governed , will view his law in direct inverse proportion to the amount and weight of evidence against it . |
| 24 | Their bewilderments , infatuations , sense of being lost and abandoned , are much stronger than those of Aragorn or Gimli or anyone else in the more active half of the story . |
| 25 | If you do n't want yourself , or anyone else in the family , to be one of those statistics in the next three minutes , then the answer lies in your own hands . |
| 26 | I would like to have more information from the County , or anyone else from the table for that matter , how this figure 's going to be split , clearly P P G requires it to be split between district , and I 'd like to see it split on that basis . |
| 27 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 28 | The fact remains that we as a council if we wish to , can meet a proper prudent budget and the alternative proposals tonight , which is really the the er unfortunate ones which would appear to be going through , are really not recognisable , that this is not the time to impose additional council tax or anything else on the people of this city when generally speaking their personal finances are not at their best . |
| 29 | And that is you do n't mention the price or anything else until the last possible minute . |
| 30 | The basic idea of The Blind Watchmaker is that we do n't need to postulate a designer in order to understand life , or anything else in the universe . |