Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory the first step in the procedure is a formal application for payment of arrears by either the landlord or someone acting as an agent . |
| 2 | ‘ That — or someone tampering with the sample . ’ |
| 3 | Next door , through the partition wall , some shouts were audible , so muffled it was impossible to tell whether it was a violent assault or someone asking for his bath to be turned off . |
| 4 | And it suggests the driving force — or someone working for him — has a good knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe . ’ |
| 5 | Well we thought it was either a rent man or somebody collecting for the council . |
| 6 | So it 's normally brought to us either by , the neighbours ringing in or somebody passing by saying they can hear screaming . |
| 7 | And there was a shadow , something or somebody moving against the eastern window . |
| 8 | But Rory was not it , and Mallachy confused her , his powerful body and powerful dislike of something or somebody blurring in her mind . |
| 9 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 10 | In selecting people for a job we are inclined to go on general appearance , whether we like the person , whether we would like to have him or her working for us . |
| 11 | All the way down in the train I kept seeing you smiling at me — oh , so wistfully . |
| 12 | Where you gon na |
| 13 | Where you gon na put |
| 14 | Where you gon na stand oh yeah |
| 15 | Is it switched on or you listening to something ? |
| 16 | Or you coming for a ride ? |
| 17 | Or you gon na take the car or get the bus ? |
| 18 | Nor were any examples found of we or you co-occurring with a singular verb , and in a very real sense it is this constraint which distinguishes the Belfast vernacular concord system from that of other non-standard varieties . |
| 19 | or owt owing to me , I says , we 'll do it that way and then you come |
| 20 | This could either be flat rate or one taking into account the risk associated with different types of lending . |
| 21 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 22 | In being able to discriminate truth — or something approximating to it — from falsehood or nonsense , the student enters a state of intellectual freedom in relation to that portion of the world which is the focus of his or her studies . |
| 23 | Well if you 've got a big bill or something hanging over your head , that will send you quite erm into the dumps . |
| 24 | Car or lorry or something going by by the sound of it . |
| 25 | I must have strained it or something playing with the kids . |
| 26 | Where anybody gon na sleep and with granddad like the state he 's in . |
| 27 | I really must speak to all customers in the shop last Thursday afternoon , or anybody passing by early in the evening . |
| 28 | The contorted postures provide an eloquent visual commentary to the simultaneously projected ‘ real life ’ imagery ; her video and installation work include fragile , barely existing images ( negative or miniature projections ) of swinging figures , or herself freefalling from a 200 foot crane , continually repeated , as if caught in a time-loop of seemingly endless motion . |
| 29 | Each human being strives to keep himself or herself going in their own particular character , but being made up of parts , those parts which have any kind of individuality also try to keep themselves going . |
| 30 | a private customer to whom it or anyone acting on its behalf provides an investment service is informed of its and that persons status ; and |