Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they started recruiting or or or promoting them from the ranks you know . |
| 2 | But no-one says anything about what to do , or whether to do anything at all , when you simply do n't miss it . ’ |
| 3 | He dreams he is sitting at the wheel of his car at the traffic lights , unable to drive off because he ca n't decide whether to kiss Rose when he arrives , or whether to ask her for a cheese and chutney sandwich instead , or where to go for his holidays . |
| 4 | As from April 1993 , even more flexibility will be allowed with couples able to choose whether all the tax relief should go to one partner ( husband or wife ) or whether to split it on a 50–50 basis . |
| 5 | If however the means used is simply the issuing of a request as in ( 176 ) , then the causee can either be represented as being brought to perform some action as a result of the request ( get ) or as doing something under the influence or authority of the causer ( have ) . |
| 6 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 7 | And that meant everything to him … |
| 8 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 9 | But I was very much in love with Isobel and that prevented my from looking too hard at the mess I had created . |
| 10 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 11 | It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember . |
| 12 | She did n't need to look up to know he 'd seen everything , and that irritated her beyond measure . |
| 13 | ‘ He played tennis on a high level for two and half hours , and did n't give me time to breathe , and that caught me by surprise a little bit , ’ said Boris Becker , his prize scalp , after the German had lost . |
| 14 | And that faced her with a course of action which , for some obscure reason , seemed rather distasteful now . |
| 15 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 16 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 17 | This morning there were three cars besides myself and that frightened me to death being a trader . |
| 18 | And that put her in her place you see , and it gave her a position . |
| 19 | As well as Seve 's good start on the fourth round , he also birdied one of the par-5s going out and that put him in front . |
| 20 | The concept of cohesion is a semantic one ; it refers to the relations of meaning that exist within the text , and that define it as a text ; it occurs when the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another . |
| 21 | As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead . |
| 22 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 23 | Not that she believes in anything , religion and so on — and nor do I of course , though I was brought up a little as a Catholic — but she goes by omens , auguri . |
| 24 | Have chips no more than twice a week and if preparing them at home have them cut very thick . |
| 25 | and and fetch it from if al if we 're allowed to do that . |
| 26 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 27 | And then took er took the k took the tr the erm took the the saddle off and the lathe and and fitted it on top and then got special tools from Clarence Dock at Liverpool power station that I asked for , tools . |
| 28 | Um it 's almost as if the debate about false memory syndrome is embedded in an older notion of memory , embedded in a notion of memory as if it were either literally true or literally false , embedded in a notion of memory which sees memories as things like larders or cupboards or filing cabinets and um y'know people pick the memories out and get them out and and display them to other people . |
| 29 | And keep us in his grace and and free us from all ills in this world and the next . |
| 30 | But by and large that 's just a further clarification of some aspects and it 's not a quantum change of policy , all it did is collect together wholesalers of circulars etcetera er and and present them in a in a slightly er more concise way . |