Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pledge to recycle as much waste as possible at home and/or I pledge to help organise recycling at work or at school/college . |
| 2 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 3 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 4 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 5 | We crashed … and I 've been ill , or I 've lost my memory or something . |
| 6 | or I 've lost it on t' way running for bus . |
| 7 | and leave you free to do a job , because you may think I mean , believe it or I 've turned this room inside out today ! |
| 8 | And er this is what I do , Well I used to do jobs round here for a while or I 've chucked it up now aye . |
| 9 | Either that , or I 've drowned . |
| 10 | Either that or I 've got wax in my ears . |
| 11 | Either that , or I 've got a secret penchant for women who attack me with briefcases and then do their best to alienate half my work-force . ’ |
| 12 | What we 've got to do is , or I 've got to do is to get our sister companies to visit the buggers . |
| 13 | But you might be talking to a client , says , but at the moment , I 've got no need , erm , or I 've got n no intention of buying now , but I might be buying in a year or two year 's time . |
| 14 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 15 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 16 | She said they 've all come to work oh I 've won a prize I 've got a car or I 've won this that and the other . |
| 17 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 18 | Or I went swimming in the sea . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't get up or I get reprimanded . |
| 20 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 21 | He will recall that dealing with NIE and trying to bring electricity to Rathlin was not one of the easiest tasks that he or I had to undertake . |
| 22 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 23 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 24 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 25 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 26 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 27 | Erm so we wish to thank them all , or I wish to thank them all very much for all their hard work and support they 've given me . |
| 28 | If er Mr or I wish to ask questions on the original proof or about what what the witness is telling you , . |
| 29 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 30 | Or I 'd thought of getting a teaching qualification — maybe starting my own commercial language school . ’ |