Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could be a girl with no fixed address or someone whose landlady or friends expected her to move away about that particular weekend . |
| 2 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 3 | This is a very common problem in er statistical inference and th or which which significance level do we choose ? |
| 4 | These Iron Age structures were built before the arrival of the Vikings ; but why they were built , or who their architects feared , remains a mystery to this day . |
| 5 | He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were . |
| 6 | On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’ |
| 7 | Most typically , this applies in respect of a non-working wife ( or one whose earnings are very low ) who is under 60 when her husband retires . |
| 8 | ‘ The modern woman will note with pleasant surprise that Mary of Nazareth , while completely devoted to the will of God , was far from being a timidly submissive woman , or one whose piety was repellent to others ; on the contrary , she was a woman who did not hesitate to proclaim that God vindicates the humble and oppressed and removes powerful people from their privileged positions … a woman of strength who experienced poverty and suffering , flight and exile . |
| 9 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 10 | That wee lad , and then the one from called about two o'clock he says I says he 's not in so and I says he 's away to swim or something what time did he go at ? |
| 11 | I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week . |
| 12 | Like , my dad le , like I was doing the crossword or something my dad leant over me and I went , yeah , oh really ! |
| 13 | LET us have no patience with the enemy or anyone whose veins carry his blood . ’ |
| 14 | Or he his goddis brocht in Latio , |
| 15 | He felt on edge about meeting Elsie or Elisa or whatever her name was now . |
| 16 | Louise Müller , or whatever her name was , was a treacherous schemer and murderess , as much a public danger in her way as Fedorov . |
| 17 | For so much was untrue , and Margaret never doubted her sister 's integrity ; they really believed , poor things , that what they said was true , and Miss Ironside or whatever her name is seems to have had some grudge against her . |
| 18 | ‘ So restoring ! ’ cried Madame Maillot , or whatever her name is . |
| 19 | BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SEXUAL BEING : Woody Allen , for ridding himself of the insipid waif and compulsive adopter Mia Farrow by bedding her adopted daughter Egg Foo Yong , or whatever her name was . |
| 20 | This little brute Matilda or whatever her name is has stink-bombed my study ! |
| 21 | ‘ That little girl , Catherine Linton , or Earnshaw , or whatever her name was , must have been wicked ! |
| 22 | or whatever her name is . |
| 23 | Pension mortgages and this mortgage and and he did n't really know how er er cos that that foreign Lucy or whatever her name was |
| 24 | oh this is a hefty fucking Cleo Rocos on this , Cleo Laine or whatever her name is . |
| 25 | That 's the only definition and worth over x million pound or whatever total revenue or whatever their threshold is |
| 26 | And entertainment as fantasy is not acceptable , though I do n't think everyone has to go to the extremes of U2 or Jimmy Somerville , or whoever it is or whatever their politics . |
| 27 | ‘ Now you listen to me , Meredith , or whatever your name is ! ’ |
| 28 | I 'll walk into a French bank and say can I exchange these back to sterling and they 'll say oh yes and then charge me five hundred fucking francs again or whatever it is. no five nines , nine eighteen twenty seven thirty six forty five francs . |
| 29 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 30 | I ca n't believe that that young seaman , Achmed or whatever his name is , or either of the two girls can have anything to do with this . |