Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 2 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 3 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 4 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 5 | This is highlighted in Gittins 's ( 1986 ) study of a Devon town in the years 1850–1930 , where she argues that relationships with kin were more important than marriage for the women in terms of the structures of support within which they were engaged . |
| 6 | A solicitor must not only disclose to you any commission over £10 that he or she receives but must also account to you for it unless you have agreed that he or she should keep it . |
| 7 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
| 8 | The feelings he or she gets when ‘ kicked ’ are comfortingly familiar and better than being ignored . |
| 9 | On the surface this structure would seem to have much to commend it , guaran-teeing , as it does , every child a right to an educational curriculum of distinctive breadth and depth irrespective of the type of school he or she attends and irrespective of the talents the child possesses . |
| 10 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 11 | The sufferer is con-fronted with truth — as seen by the peer group of patients — rather than the version of it that corresponds to a false picture that only he or she perceives and finds acceptable . |
| 12 | He or she learns because the parents always give one ( and only one ) brief , sharp warning before time out is given , for example : |
| 13 | The suspect , or the solicitor dealing with the case on his or her behalf ( subject to availability ) , may make representations to the review officer about the continuing detention — but the officer may refuse to hear these if he or she decides that the suspect is ‘ unfit … by reason of his condition or behaviour ’ . |
| 14 | Now in Katsikas the Court has asserted that the Directive does not require the employee to take advantage of the transfer provisions if he or she decides that it is not in his or her best interests to do so . |
| 15 | In getting to know a person for example , to insist on doubting everything he or she does and says all the time will soon put an end to any effective relationship — doubt is simply not appropriate . |
| 16 | If one person chooses to cause serious injury to another , it should be presumed that he or she realizes that there is always a risk of death , and such cases show a sufficiently wanton disregard for life as to warrant the label ‘ murder ’ if death results . |
| 17 | Uses behaviour that emphasises the interviewer 's powers to appraise and evaluate — sitting back in the chair , head tilting backwards , hand covering mouth , perhaps , looking doubtful and not registering any reaction to what is said , or indicating that he or she appreciates that their ‘ victim ’ has finished an answer . |
| 18 | Others are not reported because of embarrassment or fear on the part of the victim ( rape , domestic assaults ) , or because he or she thinks that there is little the police can do about it ( vandalism , shoplifting ) , or that the offence is not very serious anyway , or that there is no unwilling victim ( drug abuse , soliciting , under-age sex ) . |
| 19 | Reading experiences expressed by this node are characterised , in ordinary language , by the total dependence of the reader 's satisfaction on whether he or she thinks that the author has enjoyed writing the text , on the basis additionally that the reader thinks that the author is satisfied by the enjoyment gained by readers ' interpretative efforts . |
| 20 | He or she controls and co-ordinates the activities of committees and planning boards , oversees the working of academic departments and liaises with outside bodies . |
| 21 | But the immediate priority , he emphasised , was to get back to the basics which Sir Reo Stakis tried to inculcate in his managers : using staff effectively to provide a service on the spot and giving the customer what he or she needs and expects . |
| 22 | The child may rationalise the situation by saying that the family is the only family he or she knows and thereby acquire a psychic balance . |
| 23 | In contrast with [ 27 ] , a hearer who is presented with the repetition in [ 25 ] is encouraged to dwell on what he or she knows or imagines about long walks — the physical discomfort perhaps , or , alternatively , the exhilaration derived from the freedom . |
| 24 | And , if by some misfortune , he or she miscalculates and dares to put on even a tiny amount of excess fat , this is immediately dieted off within a week of it first appearing . |
| 25 | In such situations — where the best X per cent of students are to get the As , the next best nX per cent the Bs , and so on — the grade awarded to a student depends not on the absolute level of performance he or she attains but on how he or she performs relative to other students . |
| 26 | The user can select any screen font he or she prefers and can enter copy in almost any fashion . |
| 27 | With the benefits accruing to him or her whether he or she joins or not , there is no rational reason why any individual should join the pressure group . |
| 28 | Ask a Christian why he or she believes that God exists , and they might reply : ‘ It is a matter of faith . ’ |
| 29 | Traditionally , the law has said that allowing someone who is terminally ill to die is lawful , but bringing about his or her death is unlawful , even if he or she consents or requests it . |
| 30 | Each person in this cell has personal time allotted to use as he or she wants and this requires preparation and reflection beforehand . |