Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The otter either heard me or got my scent , because it suddenly looked up , then stood up and moved out of sight round the other side of the rock . |
| 2 | The client is encouraged , and initially assisted , in developing and carrying out strategies for testing thoughts and beliefs about what might happen , e.g. ‘ If I ask my boss for a raise he 'll sack me or bite my head off . ’ , |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you ever do that again , ’ he said , without looking at me or breaking his stride . |
| 4 | So I used to say to each crowd : ‘ Look , when you see me or see my inspector , move to the kerb and stay there . |
| 5 | Tricia backed her way out , never taking her eyes off me or letting her bearings slip . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We feel strongly that weapons of this kind have no place , so we support measures to ban them or prohibit their sale . ’ |
| 8 | On the highly publicized issue in AI 's December report of the baby deaths , Amnesty said that although its team was shown alleged mass graves of babies , it was not established how they had died and the team found no reliable evidence that Iraqi forces had caused the deaths of babies by removing them or ordering their removal from incubators . |
| 9 | We can not see them or turn our minds from them . |
| 10 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 11 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 12 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 13 | Using a cream gives time for the hydrogen peroxide to be in contact with the bacteria in order to kill them or inhibit their division . |
| 14 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
| 15 | Second , the majority of those suffering from corporate crime remain unaware of their victimization — either not knowing it has happened to them or viewing their ‘ misfortune ’ as an accident and ‘ no one 's fault ’ . |
| 16 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 17 | They have been concerned about damaging them or losing their affection . |
| 18 | Anyone who has seen them or knows their whereabouts is asked to contact detectives at Craigavon 325144 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Anyway , Broom'ead caused so many problems there that 'is daughter 's ‘ usband told 'er that eivver 'er farvver went or 'e would . |
| 21 | God might , in creating the world , have put the sort of distance between Himself and ourselves that involves our having to live in an environment within which , until the day that we die , there is evidence both for and against His existence . |
| 22 | He wanted to speak to someone and hear their voice speaking to him . |
| 23 | Brad and John thirst heroically together for euphoria — for a state of ardent life in which we could all stretch ourselves and lose our differences . |
| 24 | He gives us the voice , so we can examine it ourselves and ask our own questions about it , even though he does not cite directly anything the Oxford voice says . |
| 25 | We pinch ourselves and check our photographs to make sure that we have really seen , done and experienced all these wonderful things . |
| 26 | David grinned in that unassuming way of his and made his class line-up for my autograph . |
| 27 | Here she raised her square white face up to his and sought his eyes . |
| 28 | Marcus shouted from the doorway in that distinctly unfriendly tone of his and clapped his hands hard . |
| 29 | Pressing it more firmly against her breast as his breathing became as erratic as her own , she moved her mouth from his and buried her face in his neck . |
| 30 | He groaned , caught her hand in his and pressed his mouth to the palm . |