Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Alternatively , a woman may have low self-esteem , feeling she can only impress others or make them like her by buying status symbols or the latest fashions . |
| 3 | Her hands flew to his shoulders , but whether to fend him off or make him stay she could not have said . |
| 4 | ‘ Shall I be mother and pour or d' you want me to disappear while you two talk Jockey Club business . ’ |
| 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 | I certainly do n't have to let him take advantage of it or let him bludgeon me into a marriage that would be power-based and intolerable . |
| 7 | But you do n't tell him Condor is a DIA operation or let him think you 're with DIA HUMINT . |
| 8 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 9 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd think he would either apply for another one or , or let you have his . |
| 11 | When you say Supported , do you mean they did n't object or do you mean they |
| 12 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 13 | Or letting anyone know we 're here , Polly thought . |
| 14 | Or do we send them to Mike ? |
| 15 | Or do we dump it ? |
| 16 | Or do we want them really to understand what they 're doing first presumably . |
| 17 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 18 | And do we , do we find some partners or do we do it just the two of us ? |
| 19 | In other words , by asking about each how it answers the question — ‘ do girls fail , or do we fail them ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Or do we hit them before they come to the boil ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Yeah , does that mean er whenever I send out the application fee of two hundred and fifty pounds some months ago , er did we get that back or do we get it back ? |
| 23 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 24 | ‘ Laverne , do ya wan na bring your bicycle in from the rain , or do ya wann it to rust to the spot like everything else round here ? ’ |
| 25 | Or do they rent them off the Council or what ? |
| 26 | So do we phone them once we get to the hotel or do they contact us ? |
| 27 | Here are three examples to help ; — Do you get around enough to see your people — or do they criticize you for being too distant , frequently unavailable or too busy ? |
| 28 | Or do they criticize you for not really knowing where you 're going ? |
| 29 | Do they keep it in cash in a piggy bank , or in a current account in a real bank ; or do they put it in some interest bearing time account ; or do they buy stocks and shares or government bonds ; or do they buy some physical asset such as a car or property ? |
| 30 | Or do I drag you out ? ’ |