Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |
| 2 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 3 | Or she 's staying to thank O'Brien personally — I really do n't know . ’ |
| 4 | Right , second baby has a P K U gene from his mum and a normal gene from his dad and he is not affected , but he is a P K U carrier , right , third baby gets a normal gene from his mum and a P K U gene from his dad and he 's the same , or she 's the same P K U carrier , but not affected , unfortunately the last baby gets a P K U gene from , from mum and a P K U gene from dad and this baby has got P K U and that is a simple , simple sort of exercise of how genetic disorders sometimes appear and sometimes do n't |
| 5 | Perhaps someone 's still there , or she 's tucking Darius up in bed . |
| 6 | They walked on in silence for a time , and then Hilary said : ‘ I still think your mum 's playing a dirty game , or she 's imagining things . |
| 7 | Get her back on or she 's not having this I 'm sorry about that hang on just a minute block your ears I 'm just going to spin round again okay hang on oops er are you their Rachael are you there ? |
| 8 | This is where is lacking in a little bit of er you know authority or she 's not quite sure right . |
| 9 | I wonder if she 's died or she 's ill ? |
| 10 | Well er , she 's at home , or she 's in the erm R E I |
| 11 | Or she 's playing a drum . |
| 12 | She 's writing a children 's book , erm , well she 's written one , and it 's going around to the publishers and she 's written or she 's writing a second . |
| 13 | Probably because he 's an author or she 's an author . |
| 14 | She does , but she does n't know how from what I can make out , she does n't know how long , much longer is going to stick at Reading or she 's going to do her usual , stick at something for two , two months . |
| 15 | or she 's doing a embroidery or doing something |
| 16 | Can you bring hers in , or she 's gon na create hell biscuits . |
| 17 | Oh , well it 's either that or she 's just ignorant ! |
| 18 | If you do n't tell him it though and you assume he 's gon na to pick it up just by looking at your eyes he 's not going to or she 's not going to pick it up . |
| 19 | I 'm glad you like my essay , but I do n't like what you 're doing ’ , or would he think ‘ oh dear I 've got to put with this or she 's going to write a bad report on me ’ . |
| 20 | ai n't ya ? ah , well I think she 's going off er , either that or she 's lazy , I think she 's going off bacon |
| 21 | Coaching can be a great help — but it can also get in the way , for slavishly following a pedantic teacher can produce very strange results , with the candidate ending up trying to sound like someone he or she is n't . |
| 22 | Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about . |
| 23 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 24 | When your child wakes up , be reassuring ; he or she is likely to be upset . |
| 25 | The last is always the more interesting type ; not infrequently he or she is an impressive doer , sometimes an eloquent speaker ; some , very few , are both . |
| 26 | You can not blame a brilliant young player who takes , say , the $200,000 he or she is offered , to play just for one night but it inevitably gives them a totally false impression of life and what their tennis priorities ought to be . |
| 27 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 28 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 29 | Each nomination must be proposed and seconded by two members of the Campaign and be accompanied by a signed declaration from the candidate that he or she is willing to stand . |
| 30 | It is true that Pound does not readily conceive of a reader who is not also an aspiring writer — something that led Leavis astray when he tried to retort to How To Read ; but there is no harm , and much profit , in letting the student of the history of poetry suppose that he or she is in due course going to write poems . |