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

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31 For this you will have to rely on friends , neighbours , or relatives , or ring the Volunteer Co-ordinator at your local Council of Voluntary Service and ask him or her whether there is someone who can shop and clean for you while you are ill .
32 With the benefits accruing to him or her whether he or she joins or not , there is no rational reason why any individual should join the pressure group .
33 Convincing him or her that you are the one to fit the bill is a challenge .
34 At the same time also advise him or her that if a cash payment or a banker 's draft is not received within the next five days legal action will be the only alternative .
35 For the adolescent boy or girl , the confusion may be worsened by growing evidence for him or her that previous ideas and attitudes , based entirely on childhood experience , may not be appropriate in his or her new relationships or in the new society of which the youngster is now accepted as part .
36 In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person .
37 Your local Law Society may well have a public relations officer , and it would be as well to speak to him or her before you embark on contacting the media and putting yourself forward as a specialist .
38 There is no National Insurance on the company 's contributions to the fund , and the employee pays no income tax on the shares allocated to him or her provided they are held for at least five years .
39 Once the Juvenile Employment Bureau had registered and placed the adolescent , the ‘ helper ’ resumed responsibility by attempting to keep ‘ in effective touch ’ with either him or her and with the home .
40 Only your detective , perhaps , will need to be seen in somewhat greater depth , since your readers have got to sympathise with him or her and to do that they probably need more than just one point of contact .
41 Er but yes you could put your wife and two children and if your wife is fit to do it she can do it , if she is n't the two children can do it instead or her and one of the children to help each other out .
42 Relatives , of course , do not always agree with the individual about what is best for him or her and they may not agree with professionals trying to help the person either .
43 Whether you pass an exam or not and you think to yourself , well they 're not really bothered about what you do , so that means you do n't really think of it in terms of , oh well , he is really taking pride in me or her and really want me to do well , it goes beyond just teaching me , it 's something personal as well .
44 First , the Freedom of Information Acts give an individual a right to information possessed by the government about him or her and the government may have to justify non-disclosure in court .
45 The judge has a discretion to exercise in determining whether-to make such an order , taking account of whether the defendant chose to contest a strong case against him or her and if the defendant must have known the real truth of the matter .
46 It is no earthly use appointing a particular officer if the childen do not know how to complain to him or her and can not do so .
47 ‘ It is perfectly common in ordinary speech to refer to the child in utero as he , she , him or her and I do not feel driven by the use of such ordinary parlance in this section ( of the act ) to the view which Lord Prosser accepted , that parliament envisaged a person sustaining injuries meaning a person enjoying legal personality . ’
48 ‘ From where I 'm lying that sounds like another woman saying , it 's me or her or else . ’
49 Secondly , the film suggests that Walter is thrown into a harrowing situation because his parents are dead , compounding the fears of many people that if they had a mentally handicapped child , there would be no-one to look after him or her if they died .
50 When the candidate has settled ask him or her if they would like to smoke ( if you yourself do not mind ) .
51 But always see your doctor if you are worried , and do not delay in consulting him or her if you think any of the points below might apply to you :
52 If you are not related by blood , or were not legally married to the deceased , you can not inherit from him or her if he or she dies without a will .
53 Since the plaintiff is a prime contributor , it must be realised that whilst it is important to utilise what advantages are possessed , there is considerable pressure on him or her as well .
54 Do you really enjoy the company of the person who is supposed to be accompanying you , or do you merely tolerate him or her because you feel you have no other choice ?
55 or him that thought more than a handful
56 I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ .
57 That fucking bitch would wish she 'd never seen the book or him or anything to do with it .
58 Or Him or Both , all Three , met shuddering as we rattle .
59 The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike .
60 It , it came or it or it would be one of the depressions that the town has suffered from many times during the last fifty or sixty years .
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