Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 2 | Valdo , Alemao and others often showed a remarkable lightness of touch in the soggy conditions but several times promising movements failed for want of a penetrative final pass or someone reading the right space at the crucial moment . |
| 3 | Sally was the one , or somebody wanted the other programme I put the tape in and recorded |
| 4 | ‘ You , Fernando Serra , are either lying through your teeth , putting on a brave face or you have the same loose sort of arrangement with your mistress as you accused me of having with Steve . ’ |
| 5 | And you do n't need to put in the whole amount , but then if you do n't put in the whole amount or you withdraw the net interest which you 're entitled to do then you 're pulling away the build-up are n't you ? |
| 6 | Or you loved the melodramatic gesture more . |
| 7 | However , if he or she survives the first half hour , there is a good chance of complete recovery . |
| 8 | He or she co-ordinates the assistant education officers ( see below ) , and deals with major initiatives such as secondary school reorganisation . |
| 9 | Someone who can not predict what will happen after he or she takes the first drink . |
| 10 | That if one of us finds out any more , he or she tells the other and no one else ? |
| 11 | there was this picture of this , I do n't know if it was a man or a woman naked in a cubical and it filled , well he or she filled the cubical and you could n't see where the , the bottom began |
| 12 | An applicant for judicial review may lose the case no matter how sound it might be as a matter of substantive ( as opposed to remedial ) law if , for example , he or she pursues the wrong procedure for seeking a remedy or does not satisfy the rules of standing ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 13 | In operational terms , someone has a need for health care if he or she has the appropriate indications for the intervention in question . |
| 14 | There is a real sense in which the worker has limited choices of occupation and , consequently , he or she makes the best of what work is available . |
| 15 | If the originator chooses to proceed , he or she enters the next phase , referred to as initial screening . |
| 16 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |
| 17 | Either we can know the position exactly , in which case we sacrifice all specification of momentum , or we make the converse choice . |
| 18 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 19 | he should have known or whoever organized the fair should have known so really it does n't work unless you make one person responsible for that job . |
| 20 | Ask him or her to urge the new Home Secretary , as a matter of urgency , to consult with relevant organisations with a view to drafting a new Asylum Bill ; |
| 21 | Only " tough love " is helpful , loving the sufferer but allowing him or her to take the full consequences of all actions caused by the disease . |
| 22 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 23 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 24 | But j just before you go , Tom , the issue on whether or not Peter or or it lets the thinner section deep groove ball bearings , is n't going to rest on . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 26 | What the alternative to today 's degenerate and evil society is presents no immediate problem : women are once again hidden from sight , or married ones have their hair shorn ; thieves are once again punished by having hands or legs cut off ; alcohol , or whatever else is ritually prohibited , is banned ; and Koran , or Bible , or whatever constitutes the authoritative compendium or eternal wisdom , provides complete practical and moral guidance on all subjects , as interpreted by those whose business it is to do so . |
| 27 | I was I was gon na ask you who or what does the mean , the name ? |
| 28 | Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum ? |
| 29 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 30 | Unluckily , neither the inspector nor myself spotted the stray soap and after slipping arse over tit he put his head through the water tank . |