Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal is required to give his clerk specified minimum training ( or to enable him to receive it from others ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Alternatively , a woman may have low self-esteem , feeling she can only impress others or make them like her by buying status symbols or the latest fashions . |
| 3 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 4 | These er er orders today are n't based on a thorough inquiry er into how audits on the the financial institutions are conducted , what 's wrong with them , what goes wrong , not even a thorough er inquiry into what happened in the B C C I case , er we ca n't legislate , we ca n't legi or regulate I put it without er er er a thorough inquiry and yet here we have er orders brought in er without inquiry . |
| 5 | Is there any reason to suppose her otherwise , or has anybody taken it into his head to try her ? |
| 6 | I certainly do n't have to let him take advantage of it or let him bludgeon me into a marriage that would be power-based and intolerable . |
| 7 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 8 | If there is something you can not do , you can ask a friend to help or pay someone to do it for you . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I need to know who paid you or blackmailed you to call me in the weighing room . ’ |
| 10 | Because her expectations were realistic , she accepts without rancour the fact that she must either do the work herself or employ someone to do it for her . |
| 11 | Or do we send them to Mike ? |
| 12 | Moreover on a single decision — do we license this environment to the rest of the industry or do we keep it to ourselves — can depend the entire future of a computer company , with the wrong decision spelling oblivion . |
| 13 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 14 | Or do they rent them off the Council or what ? |
| 15 | Here are three examples to help ; — Do you get around enough to see your people — or do they criticize you for being too distant , frequently unavailable or too busy ? |
| 16 | Or do they criticize you for not really knowing where you 're going ? |
| 17 | Do they keep it in cash in a piggy bank , or in a current account in a real bank ; or do they put it in some interest bearing time account ; or do they buy stocks and shares or government bonds ; or do they buy some physical asset such as a car or property ? |
| 18 | ‘ Are you going to tell me your story , or do I demand it of the world at large ! |
| 19 | And are you confident when you give a weather forecast that the chances are that it 's going to be correct , or do you do it with a slight feeling of uneasiness ? |
| 20 | Are you going to write them on , down , or do you want me to ? |
| 21 | Erm but do you want us to keep our own results or do you want us to pool all together |
| 22 | Do you walk with him or do you put him in a baby walker ? |
| 23 | ‘ Or do you see him as an inconvenient remnant of outmoded superstition — a bit like a gallstone — of which we must all be purged before religion can take on its true form , that is , without him . ’ |
| 24 | Do you want it to be just a commercial success or do you see it as an opportunity to exhibit large or unusual works , or the sort of work you would like to do more of ? |
| 25 | Now what about these other campaigns we mentioned last time , did we decide what , or did we leave it till this meeting cos there was India and there was Women 's |
| 26 | Or did he see it as a force for change ? |
| 27 | Its mystery somehow diminished life , or did it enlarge it by making life and its purpose more mysterious still . |
| 28 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 29 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 30 | Or did I put it in this one ? |