Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 3 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 4 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 5 | The patches can then be located where you want them among the preamp 's memory locations ( or programs ) , and then called up by a MIDI pedal . |
| 6 | Use water wisely , putting it exactly where you want it with a Soakerhose . |
| 7 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 8 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 9 | ‘ Either we terrorise them into submission , or we abandon them to the vacuum of a permissive existence . |
| 10 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 11 | Either one of two things : either the period of primitive accumulation is taken just as ‘ pre-history ’ ; in which case it has a strict time-limit … or we see it as a process of ousting ‘ third persons ’ in general — in which case the concept itself has to be abolished , since in that case it does not express anything special , specific , etc . |
| 12 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 13 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 14 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 15 | Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle . |
| 16 | Send an emissary , or yourself approach him under a flag of truce . |
| 17 | or what have you in the chapel , they 'd go |
| 18 | Although I tease it with a tender rage |
| 19 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 20 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 21 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 22 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 23 | ‘ And I think it 's going to be very important that I sell it to the Congress and the American people , and that we have a partnership here . ’ |
| 24 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 26 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen , it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to the magic of television … ‘ |
| 28 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
| 29 | Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace . |
| 30 | It is for that reason that I include it on the shortlist for the Worst Building in the World title . |