Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I went swimming in the sea . |
| 2 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or I 'd thought of getting a teaching qualification — maybe starting my own commercial language school . ’ |
| 11 | You do n't often see photos of this I 've only ever found one , here 's one , or I did find one . |
| 12 | doing in an arithmetic way or you had to use a sca , a log table . |
| 13 | You either got tuck boxes from home or you had to supplement it with your own earnings , which , ten shillings a week . |
| 14 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 15 | A swallow to him was something you did when you ate food or you did to stop yourself from crying . |
| 16 | If that happened , or you started to get bogged down in an episode , you could always use the Doctor as a diversion . |
| 17 | The deceased was brought in by Anubis and , turning to each of the gods in turn , he or she denied having committed a particular sin . |
| 18 | the client may not obtain the project he or she thought had been commissioned |
| 19 | Either she was losing her mind , or she 'd followed the wrong man . |
| 20 | Eh she was away I think when , or she 'd gone out when called in upon here a fortnight ago . |
| 21 | Either that or she 'd got two woollies on . |
| 22 | Durkheim regards the criminal as someone who provides the community with an opportunity to reassert standards , which he or she had broken or opposed . |
| 23 | The killer must have been kneeling there , pistol at the ready , and as Francis emerged he or she had fired at a range of a few inches . |
| 24 | Professor Andrew Christie , convener of the taxation practices committee , said a good example of the programme was an architect or builder required to pay professional indemnity insurance long after he or she had retired . |
| 25 | The focus for method work was also provided by a student 's account of a lesson he or she had taught . |
| 26 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 27 | It was either that , or she had upset him . |
| 28 | Remember how you were concerned for his or her welfare , how you wanted to know if he or she had slept well , had eaten properly or was too cold or too hot ? |
| 29 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 30 | Jessie cos he or she had got about a six foot long tree trunk in its mouth . |