Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this because of their anti-arrhythmic effect , or due to them combating heart failure ? |
| 2 | It is easy to tell if someone is angry or friendly towards us , even if we do not understand their language . |
| 3 | Forty or fifty of them . |
| 4 | There must have been forty or fifty of them . |
| 5 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 6 | There must have been about forty or fifty of them . |
| 7 | S. H. There was a lot of us on reserve duty at St George 's Hall , about forty or fifty of us , and one bloody bobby sat there with us and they sent for him . |
| 8 | Oh yes I can , about forty or fifty of us to a class . |
| 9 | Some symptoms can occur immediately after birth — the baby 's first bowel movements may be too thick or sticky for him or her to pass . |
| 10 | That 's alright I hope , if you can cope with that but , if , if I would be a just a little bit upset if all thirteen of you went off together or eleven of you . |
| 11 | And I thought well she 's got two chances that way , either I could win , or she could win , or neither of us 'll win . |
| 12 | Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 103ff ) , following on Bolinger 1984 , points out likewise that " if my attitude to an event is such that I am glad or sorry about it , this means that in advance of this event I could have predicted my emotional reaction to it " . |
| 13 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
| 14 | They 're the same guns — and bullets — that we use today , but in the whole village , only about seven or eight of them are left . ’ |
| 15 | Well I do n't mind doing one card , but I hate it when I 've got about seven or eight of them chuffing things ! |
| 16 | And of course the door was shut then , and there 'd be just seven or eight of us left on the dance floor . |
| 17 | Or was that last year what seven or eight of us was n't it ? |
| 18 | ‘ Women 's magazines , not this one , are always emphasising you 're supposed to feel this or that when someone does this or that to you . |
| 19 | In many organisations , power relationships often go unnoticed because instructions and orders are often couched in polite terms — ‘ Could you , please , do this or that for me ’ . |
| 20 | There is still confusion and doubt and guilt and angst , but there 's nothing small-town or one-dimensional about it any more . |
| 21 | Having established that there was a genuine reason for her phobia , Sylvia no longer felt stupid or guilty about it . |
| 22 | Please remember that I will not get angry or upset with you . |
| 23 | If parents are beginning to feel anxious or upset about it then they should abandon the whole attempt until all the worry has died down . |
| 24 | What was familiar to others was never , on that account , tedious or contemptible to us . |
| 25 | They brought the whole flock of sheep and goats , thirty-five or forty of them , on to the roof to tie on the lukals — the double-pouched woven saddle-bags — stuffed with potatoes and Tibetan salt for trading in the south . |
| 26 | ‘ About thirty or forty of them , all from April 1945 . |
| 27 | While mixing concrete is hard physical work , there is nothing terribly complicated or mystical about it . |
| 28 | He was adamant — although all the shareholders in the motor car felt it was time , as one did at school , to say look " I am involved " , but Buster was quite insistent that it was pointless 10 or 12 of us being flogged . |
| 29 | This could perhaps be that the new doctor 's surgery is nearer , or easier for her to get to , has less steps to climb to the front door , or that she has a neighbour on his list who would accompany her to the surgery . |
| 30 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |