Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They walked on in silence for a time , and then Hilary said : ‘ I still think your mum 's playing a dirty game , or she 's imagining things . |
| 2 | She 's writing a children 's book , erm , well she 's written one , and it 's going around to the publishers and she 's written or she 's writing a second . |
| 3 | Or she 's staying to thank O'Brien personally — I really do n't know . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps someone 's still there , or she 's tucking Darius up in bed . |
| 5 | Can you bring hers in , or she 's gon na create hell biscuits . |
| 6 | or she 's doing a embroidery or doing something |
| 7 | Or she 's playing a drum . |
| 8 | She does , but she does n't know how from what I can make out , she does n't know how long , much longer is going to stick at Reading or she 's going to do her usual , stick at something for two , two months . |
| 9 | I 'm glad you like my essay , but I do n't like what you 're doing ’ , or would he think ‘ oh dear I 've got to put with this or she 's going to write a bad report on me ’ . |
| 10 | But , at the end of the day , it is still down to the individual to make sure that he or she is getting the best deal possible . |
| 11 | For the advertiser who is concerned as to whether he or she is getting a good deal from an agency or media specialist , companies such as Media Audits provide a service that compares the buying performance of different advertisers and their agencies in similar markets and media . |
| 12 | you 're visiting a War or MOD Disablement Pensioner who is being treated for the disablement he or she is getting the pension for or |
| 13 | It can also help us to identify why a student is not achieving the stylistic effect he or she is seeking . |
| 14 | This will not materially affect the buyer unless he or she is seeking to continue with the unauthorised use . |
| 15 | that the candidate knows which outcomes or units are included in any assessment he or she is undertaking . |
| 16 | Usually , when a person is asked to provide a report he or she is given a brief which provides the terms of reference . |
| 17 | These assumptions will be detrimental to the black child if he or she is seen as being rescued from a life of misery . |
| 18 | Since a Prime Minister without a majority in the Commons is an impossibility , he or she is seen as in a position to make any law he or she sees as fit . |
| 19 | Other patients who have the same unconscious impulses to engage in oral sex — for example , an adult male or female who is married and dreams he or she is sucking a man 's penis and imbibing the semen — may deny the impulses . |
| 20 | If each novel a writer produces is meant to indicate the direction in which he or she is progressing , it does not provide the clear signpost that The Child In Time did . |
| 21 | Resorts to ridiculous tactics like sitting the interviewee on a small , armless chair opposite a window so that he or she is blinking in a stream of sunlight . |
| 22 | It is expensive in terms of paying the salary or the research grant of the researcher for this time , especially if he or she is engaged in no other work . |
| 23 | In terms of historical change , manual workers of both sexes work today almost as many hours each week as they did in the late 1930s and early 1940s ; this demonstrates the fact that , where available , overtime is a crucial necessity for the manual worker if he or she is to receive a wage at or above the ‘ average ’ for all manual occupations . |
| 24 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |
| 25 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 26 | When the honest shopper acts as I have just described , he or she is acting with the implied authority of the owner of the supermarket to take the goods from the shelf , put them in the trolley , take them to the checkpoint and there pay the correct price , at which moment the property in the goods will pass to the shopper for the first time . |
| 27 | He or she is supported by a Minister of State and two Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State . |
| 28 | Interaction between judges is probably more significant in the United States with the stable membership on the Supreme Court , but even in Britain the phenomenon of ‘ opinion deference ’ , whereby one or more judges defers to the opinion of another because he or she is acknowledged to be an expert or to have seniority , is not unknown . |
| 29 | It is important that the viewer is physically incorporated in the work , that he or she is implicated . ’ |
| 30 | Adoption can be seen as the logical answer to infertility , but as Brebner et al ( 1985 ) point out , if medical investigations/treatment for infertility fail and are performed without adequate psychological support , the subsequent depression and disappointment can cause couples to jump at adoption without recognising those aspects of parenthood which are peculiar to adoptive parenthood , which include : having to be assessed and monitored ; absence of pregnancy and birth ; becoming attached to a child born to someone else ; having to tell the child he or she is adopted . |