Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 He had n't explained what he wanted , or asked her to call back , but Loretta 's resolution wavered momentarily .
32 Once you 've found the words ring them with a pen , cut out the wordsquare or photocopy it if you do n't want to damage your magazine , and send it to us here at : Make sure you also enclose your address and boot size .
33 Or scanned you at a maiden aunt 's ,
34 Torts committed by the wife during marriage render her liable , but , since 1935 , impose no liability on her husband unless he has authorized or ratified them .
35 She was used to his ostrich ways — his ability to bury his head in the sand and shut out the things that displeased or upset him .
36 Ask if they have ever been frightened at school and what frightened or upset them .
37 With more experience the observer will find it worth learning to use the full SCAN system , since the event-by-event analysis shows very clearly the rhythm of the teacher 's style and how the teaching unit and the program support or upset it .
38 The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself .
39 Thus hearing a word , or producing it in response to an incomplete definition , will not prime visual word recognition .
40 ‘ All these years I 've been talking and telling , ’ he writes , ‘ and I 'm not sure if anybody listens or understands me .
41 This difference in the forces would stretch our astronaut out like spaghetti or tear him apart before the star had contracted to the critical radius at which the event horizon formed !
42 Of course , you can take your clothes off and wash them , or change them as appropriate !
43 Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students ; he showed him the terrible , the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to , or change it .
44 It I think forty five they started negotiating forty five forty to forty seven and er when we tried to alter the national agreement or change it in our minds for the better you always had the solid block of these wee fellows up and down the country sticking by the national agreement because they got such a good deal out of it it brought their standards right up to the the best that was going .
45 Or change it .
46 Thus it is highly unlikely either that a course will be designed that is universally acclaimed as the definitive model for all courses or that any one teacher will find the perfect course that suits the needs of his students , his own personality and his own approach to language teaching , but he can change or adapt it as he sees fit .
47 It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) .
48 By 1755 serious friction had developed between England and France over their respective Far Eastern and North American colonies , and it was rapidly learned in London that the French had , though reluctantly , decided that only a major invasion of England itself could force the English to keep ships at home or bring them back from overseas .
49 Do not only go and see them , but take them out or bring them home .
50 For the next few years the horde ravaged at will through the mountains , desecrating shrines , despoiling tombs , and waylaying travellers , but Grom was unable to take any of the Dwarf holds or bring them to battle .
51 Thus drugs can be said to act on people and relax them ( 26 ) or bring them around ( 27 ) ; information can put some people in a favourable position with respect to others ( 28 ) ; and pointers can be seen as guiding people ( i.e. as somehow active or operative ) in the proper discharge of their duties .
52 Do you have to walk miles to turn him out or bring him in ?
53 You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’
54 She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa .
55 Ask if you can take the form away with you and put it in the post the same day , or bring it back later .
56 Or bring it in ’
57 We either eat it there or bring it back — or both .
58 I picked it up , then did n't know whether to leave it or bring it up .
59 Or bring it ?
60 He supposed they would lock Ho in the boot or hide him somewhere while his father was fetched .
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