Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage there will be a decision to do nothing or pursue the issue . |
| 2 | The debtor receiving a LBA may pay , do nothing or make some proposals about payment . |
| 3 | Masai on the government payroll contentedly drew their salaries and accepted whatever titles were bestowed upon them , but either did nothing or interpreted their duty to be that of spokesmen for their compatriots labouring under some inconvenience inflicted on them by the government . |
| 4 | If they turn all their power on Forteviot , we either have to do nothing or cross the river ourselves and give battle . |
| 5 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 6 | It was always a mistake to let Mr Evans know you liked someone or had enjoyed anything . |
| 7 | The most obvious initiatives are to seek an idea from someone or to put an idea yourself ( see Seeking ideas on page 152 and Idea-having on page 86 ) . |
| 8 | He may have left The Bar accompanied , but you never saw him following anyone , gazing after someone or persuading them to come home with him . |
| 9 | If they do suspect someone or know someone fitting the description , speak to us in confidence and we will investigate it . |
| 10 | PERSONAL liability of £250,000 to £1 million is advisable to cover you for the legal liability of injuring someone or damaging their property , particularly as insurers report an increase in such claims . |
| 11 | Whatever formal characteristics Lyons might attribute to English in theory , in practice it would be difficult for him to sustain the claim that ‘ it is possible to address someone or talk about someone in English without indicating one 's relative social status or attitude ’ . |
| 12 | In none of these cases can the inanimate subject of help be conceived as relaxing , coming round , getting in ahead of someone or discharging duties . |
| 13 | For example , they might have been asked to meet someone or open something . |
| 14 | He found himself suddenly reaching out and touching someone or making some wild arm movement without thinking . |
| 15 | ‘ Whether we 're laughing , having a row with someone or feeling very anxious , the bodily responses are much the same . |
| 16 | ‘ Keith would sooner help someone than hurt them . |
| 17 | ‘ It is easier and quicker to do a task for someone than promote independence . |
| 18 | Tell me it 's someone else , tell me it was just someone that looked like you . ’ |
| 19 | If you 're with someone that pinches you 're a girl you just walk away . |
| 20 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 21 | His health record , for someone that does this sort of work , his health is terrible . |
| 22 | I know someone that sells them if you want one . |
| 23 | One , that working with Frantz and Weymouth was one of the worst things that could have happened to The Mondays , and two , that they 've still got it assuming they 're produced by someone that understands them . |
| 24 | Someone that means the world out there is not such a cold place after all . |
| 25 | Hui says that because the source code is written under the assumption that the user knows both J and C , someone that knows APL and C will find J much easier to use than someone who knows only C. Another advantage is that J can run on a range of boxes , including the RS/6000 , Digital Equipment Corp VAX , Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh and iAPX-86 personal computers . |
| 26 | Neighbourhood Watches is organized er in the , there 's , we have a head coordinator i of each scheme which is er someone that lives in the area . |
| 27 | So when you eyeball someone and arrange to eyeball them over the C.B. you do not meet them somewhere like your house because you do n't want anyone who might be listening to turn up at your house so you meet them somewhere like the park or somewhere like that and then take them to your house if you wish . |
| 28 | The theory behind the sections is that , if an owner of goods agrees to sell them to someone and retains title but nevertheless lets the buyer have possession , that owner must bear the consequences ( i.e. loss of title ) if the buyer then sells and delivers the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 29 | You could look at someone and like them , be excited , hopeful , and then , in the wink of an eye , it could all turn to dust . |
| 30 | I knew that if I tried to rob someone and got caught , I 'd go to jail . |