Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 2 | Not a word about me or the agency or anything you 've done for us or why you 're there or anything . ’ |
| 3 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 4 | Question mark for me or the car ? |
| 5 | This did not matter , since it was the topics that counted , not the order of them or the way they were introduced . |
| 6 | In these ways , they force their parents to recognise that they are no longer a mere extension of them or the family , but independent human beings with views and ambitions of their own . |
| 7 | For another year , the Genoese could continue to squat in the wreck of the city , clutching the rights to their ruined , foundering colony ; promoting nothing ; permitting nothing to flourish , either of theirs or the Bastard 's . |
| 8 | In fact , given the choice of you or a bear with a sore wotsit , I 'd take the bear every time . ’ |
| 9 | Since I assume that readers will be familiar with the problem , this chapter will not be a straightforward restatement of it or a listing of offensive usages . |
| 10 | Either that report or a summary of it or a basic valuation prepared from the same materials is used by the building society for the purposes of section 13 . |
| 11 | It is to look at the characteristics of the land itself , rather than to associate it of necessity with the land on one side of it or the land on the other side of it . |
| 12 | We go with him , and our sisters too , and sometimes a hare jumps out in front of us or a pheasant flies up from the ditch . |
| 13 | Is the problem of losing weight just a question of vanity for most of us or a medical necessity ? |
| 14 | You might have been up there playing and somebody like me or a young talent scout from a record company . |
| 15 | ‘ She was a simple commodity with a squeaky-clean public image and there was n't still is n't — a kid who did n't want to be like her or a parent who would discourage their children from admiring her . ’ |
| 16 | Assuming a treaty to be within the authority of the protecting State , should a claim be brought against it or the protected State ? |
| 17 | Instead of a decimal system like ours or a sexagesimal system like the Babylonian , the Maya worked with a system of numeration based on the number twenty . |
| 18 | ‘ What would you rather do , watch colour television with me or an old black and white set with the Monster Raving Loony Party ? ’ |
| 19 | He was preparing to send his confessor , a Franciscan , Father John , to Rome on a certain private , personal mission which he did not discuss with me or the Council . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't want anything to do with him or the tape . |
| 21 | But I could n't make out which Richard she was talking whether it was the one up above her or the one above Mrs . |
| 22 | Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane . |
| 23 | Do n't overheat or allow any water to come into contact with it or the chocolate will become granular . |
| 24 | Now , up to now we 've met , it 's probably a step forward but it will need careful monitoring because there is utter confusion as far as I 'm concerned with , I do n't know whether Apex is a sister union with us or a section and I do n't think Apex know the difference themselves . |
| 25 | They 'd followed that up by mounting a major surveillance job in London without clearing it with us or the Co-ordinator or anybody . |
| 26 | In presenting the main commentary , remember that readers will either have the original table before them or a number of tabular extracts presented by you to clarify points of interest . |
| 27 | Conversion at common law may be committed in so many different ways that any comprehensive definition is probably impossible but the connecting thread running through the cases seems to be that the wrong is committed by a dealing with the goods of a person which constitutes an unjustifiable denial of his rights in them or the assertion of rights inconsistent therewith . |
| 28 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 29 | ‘ I ask then that you , my dear cousin , will be the lady Anne 's chaperon and friend whilst she is at the Tower — any letters from you or the lady Anne to myself , may be sent via the cardinal who has agreed to serve me , and with the utmost discretion , in this matter . |
| 30 | OK you can criticise Strach for that , but his main talents which are those that have benefited leeds most since his arrival are his passing and ability to take on men resulting in him or a team mate scoring . |