Example sentences of "[noun] or [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well designed information systems can give the information which will assist managers make better decisions , give their businesses competitive advantage or help them improve their cost structure or product base . |
| 2 | According to the Laws of Manu , a vānaprasthin must control his senses , keep his organs in subjection , abandon his belongings , commit his wife to his sons or allow her to accompany him , be chaste , patient , friendly , and compassionate towards all creatures . |
| 3 | Do you want me to put this in the bin mum or do you want it ? |
| 4 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 5 | I mean , that 's the kind of thing one often hears on this programme , is it wishful thinking or d' you think we could actually achieve it ? |
| 6 | Did you obtain any of that information from the collators card or did you know it yourself ? |
| 7 | Do you think there 's a prejudice against women playing football or do you think it 's easy fo for women to play football ? |
| 8 | Did you was it you who chose to go and work in Llaneilian or did they send you to work there from ? |
| 9 | Was that just talk or did you have something real in mind ? ’ |
| 10 | Do you want that piece or do you want me to cut you another ? |
| 11 | Moreover on a single decision — do we license this environment to the rest of the industry or do we keep it to ourselves — can depend the entire future of a computer company , with the wrong decision spelling oblivion . |
| 12 | She might even be weaving a spell to tangle her feet or make her lose her way in the wood ! |
| 13 | Yeah I 'm afraid so , I think it 's compounded by the fact that your , what your dad says sums it up beautifully about your mum , I was talking to him about , you know , what does she , what she 's got in her life other than what she ever had other than a home , working and so on , has she got any hobbies at home or does she do anything is there anything that takes her mind off things |
| 14 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 15 | For a resident , little things become so big when your whole life can revolve round what 's for lunch and can you sit in your usual place or has someone pinched it ? |
| 16 | Is that right or do you give them hell ? |
| 17 | In the year I had skippered Wavebreaker at least half of our married male charterers had either offered Ellen a job or pressed her to visit their offices the next time she passed through their city . |
| 18 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 19 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 20 | ‘ Did you ring to give me a lecture or have you got something you want to discuss ? ’ she asked impatiently . |
| 21 | As a church do we put ourselves with Jesus on the side of people in need or do we allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear or the temptations of wealth and forget what we would rather not know ? |
| 22 | In each case , whether represented as a guess or as a known fact , the notion is seen as conditioned by a mental process or state which allows one to predicate it and so is represented as a consequence thereof by means of the to infinitive . |
| 23 | If the computer does not understand what you have said it will ask questions , offer alternatives or tell you to rephrase your question and try again . |
| 24 | Only ‘ cause looking at your first question : do you use public transport or do you promote it — there are of course all sorts of arguments sort of for and against that sort of scheme that people have to use their cars . |
| 25 | Is this a characteristic of a Series III on radials or do you think there is something wrong ? |
| 26 | DID Bill & Ted ‘ s Excellent Adventure make you laugh enough to be Comedy Video or do you think it should be Blackadder 's Christmas Carol ? |
| 27 | Do you want to have a drink or have you had one ? |
| 28 | ‘ Any bit of education or speaking I know I learned from Seth , ’ she says . |
| 29 | And do we , do we find some partners or do we do it just the two of us ? |
| 30 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |