Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spoke to Kevin on the phone yesterday but sadly he has chosen this weekend to go home to Dunsteld , when Mark & I are here at Drumstinchall . |
| 2 | People all the time wish to pigeon-hole you … to say that I am totally a chat-show host or I am entirely a serious headmistress figure . |
| 3 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 4 | ‘ It is also an unbelievable chance for Germany to have the fifth most important tennis tournament in the world … a certainty also that tennis will continue there when Steffi Graf or I are no longer around . ’ |
| 5 | With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane . |
| 6 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 7 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 8 | or I 'm just seeing what he 'd said |
| 9 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 10 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 11 | Either Melanie pushed some part of her anatomy against my leg or I was too close to the campfire . |
| 12 | No matter how volatile the economy you seem to have divine protection , whether this is because you have saved for a rainy day or you are just downright lucky . |
| 13 | This is nearly as demanding as the main route so I 'd only do it if the tops are covered in mist or you are absolutely worn out . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , Ellie , you do know , ’ he said quietly , in direct contrast to her stormy denial , ‘ and I can either believe that the letters were used merely as a passport for something else , or you are indeed a calculating little bitch intent only on causing pain . ’ |
| 15 | It 's been — delightful , and either you are a very good actress or you are genuinely innocent of guile . |
| 16 | Or you 're likely not to be able to do anything at all . |
| 17 | You 're either lying or you 're very naïve . |
| 18 | or you 're almost suicidal . |
| 19 | So were you born here moved to Malton , moved back here and then moved to Malton or you were here and they you moved to Malton when she lived there ? |
| 20 | Oh , well it 's either that or she 's just ignorant ! |
| 21 | Another symptom is writing numbers or letters backwards — again a common enough thing to do when a child is learning to write , particularly if he or she is left-handed , or perhaps dyslexic ; and probably most absurd of all , children who refer to television characters as real people are showing signs of abuse . |
| 22 | You should be allowed regular contact with your child while he or she is away . |
| 23 | The international customer will be looking for as bolthole for the times he or she is here |
| 24 | Nurse the resident in a position in which he or she is most comfortable , and change that position frequently . |
| 25 | Unlike a real victim , the interview underdog needs to remember that he or she is also in a position to evaluate . |
| 26 | The teacher may lead the discussion or the activity , but he or she is also learning from the students . |
| 27 | The trick here , and in the scores of near-novels that have followed in its wake , is to make the reader , or disciple , imagine that he or she is just as erudite into the bargain : no need to struggle through Dante or The Song of Roland when it is all there in one fat detective story . |
| 28 | He or she is well within range and unable to defend him or herself with one or both hands . |
| 29 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
| 30 | If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk . |