Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we ask the horse to work or reproduce itself we know that their requirements for nutrients ( ie Energy , Protein , Vitamins and Minerals ) increase . |
| 2 | In fact , there is almost always someone keen to take over a neglected historic building , so when a council serves a repairs notice , or the planning committee sends a warning letter , the owners tend to realise there may be some value in the property and either sell it or repair it themselves . |
| 3 | The fact that local people had not been informed of the exploratory work as it proceeded , or asked what they thought , had been discussed at some length during the evening , and there seemed to be little doubt that people who are to be " invaded " by a major installation for which they will bear much incidental , site-specific cost , would like to be party to discussions about the project . |
| 4 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |
| 5 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 6 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 7 | And I was fortunate : no one ever stopped me either to ask me for my identity card or to see what I had in my bag . |
| 8 | the teachers are n't allowed to dictate the children , if they want erm to do something or make something they have to make up a plan of what they 're gon na do first |
| 9 | You can buy chilli oil from Chinese supermarkets or make it yourself . |
| 10 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 11 | or maroon which I 've got |
| 12 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
| 13 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 14 | As it is , it excites comment and , to coin an old tabloid favourite phrase , ‘ Love it or hate it you ca n't ignore it . ’ |
| 15 | In presenting new material to a class , a meaning may be taught by listing or enumerating what it includes . |
| 16 | It does not matter whether the party accepting the consideration has any apparent benefit thereby or not : it is enough that he accepts it , and that the party giving it does thereby undertake some burden , or lose something which in contemplation of law may be of value . |
| 17 | Domesticated horses , again like , people , can be conditioned to have other needs too , and can learn to like or want something which would be of no interest to a wild horse . |
| 18 | ‘ A European ’ , Temple wrote , ‘ can not exert a personal influence on the characters of more than one hundred to two hundred natives ’ ; but if he concentrated on ‘ guiding and controlling the native leaders ’ , then his influence would be ‘ magnified by a natural process a thousand fold ’ and the result would be that : ‘ The power thus exerted is infinitely greater in scope than any power or influence which it can be hoped that he will exert under the … system of Direct Rule . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah , he made a miraculous recovery today and I think that seems to point or to confirm what your , what your mum and dad was saying |
| 20 | Subject to invasions and to the steady and relentless pressure to Germanise or Polonise themselves they had watched their language and culture dwindle away as the other Pomeranian cultures had done before them . |
| 21 | She goes on to accuse him and the others of , as it were , defining themselves into respectability : ‘ They are not prepared to count as concept or understanding anything which does not involve speech . ’ |
| 22 | I send them diagrams or fit them myself . |
| 23 | Check that I 'm alright and then when I do or suggest you you get the hump . |
| 24 | or say something I feel so guilty . |
| 25 | If you really do want to help me , I need your unquestioning support , not your childish tantrums every time I do or say something you do n't like . ’ |
| 26 | I just dare anyone to transcribe the solos on Give It All Away — from ‘ Hold Your Fire ’ or Say What You Want from Michael D'Alberquerque 's ‘ Stalking The Sleeper ’ . |
| 27 | People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . |
| 28 | You 'll have to promise to stop railing , because nobody must hear us , or realise what we 're doing . ’ |
| 29 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 30 | Just to deny her that role or restrict what she can offer the family to eat can be strongly resisted by her as she can lose her identity . |