Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] to " in BNC.

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1 And then they want someone else 's help or whatever else and er I can see that they 're concerned that you know they have a concern or want something from me then and I pass on I some action to take place you know for you know I 've on to somebody or someone said to him , I always give my name .
2 I think it 's a local gardener , or someone went to the filled up all the turf and took it all out .
3 If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical .
4 It was all one to him whether he directed a battle or a raid from his headquarters and left the action to others , or himself went to work with lance or sword in the centre of the din ; they were merely complementary skills in the same comprehensive expertise .
5 I think y yo you could blip from month to month er , er as a priority slipped in or changed , or a person slipped out or , or somebody forgot to zero something or y
6 The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request .
7 No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that .
8 Held : An occupier of premises owed the same duty of care to a fireman attending the premises to extinguish the fire as he or she owed to other visitors under s. 2 of the OLA 1957 .
9 However , if the patient required an X-ray he or she had to be seen by one of the consultants or registrars .
10 Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool .
11 It was common practice , for example , for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality .
12 Apart from an explanation of the reason for the survey , how he or she came to be selected , a guarantee of anonymity , etc. , each question must maintain the respondent 's cooperation by treating him or her with courtesy and gratitude — a few ‘ pleases ’ and a ‘ thank you ’ are essential .
13 Neither spoke , nor was there need of words , and afterwards Carrie could not recall whether Seb came to her , or she went to him .
14 and or she went to the door
15 Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated .
16 The spokesman also stressed that anyone receiving what he or she considered to be a suspect package should exercise extreme caution and contact the police immediately .
17 The ‘ Do you remember when ? ’ stories can be so important in getting to know the person who has died , in hearing about how he or she appeared to their surviving family and friends .
18 The hospital of San Giovanni di Dio was practically next door to Headquarters , which was convenient in the case of patients who required a permanent guard or who had to be questioned at intervals .
19 But the group who were seeing Mr Hurd this week , or who asked to be associated with the visit , included the Tory backbenchers Sir John Biggs-Davison , Sir John Farr and Mr John Wheeler .
20 The death penalty could also be applied to those who refused baptism , failed to conform to ecclesiastical disciplines given out by missionary leaders , or who refused to fast in Lent .
21 The record number of people who did get involved , or who wanted to be kept in touch , generated a vast workload for the inquiry bureaucracy , in reality a handful of hard-pressed individuals .
22 There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 .
23 There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 .
24 Somebody or something seemed to be trying to speak to her but she felt cut off like a prisoner in a sound-proof box .
25 We had customers that came or we delivered to , out of the area .
26 Nylons for the women , Coke for the kids and guns for the men to go on fighting ‘ Germins ’ or ‘ Reds ’ or whoever happened to be next in the firing line , that was William 's grandad 's uncluttered view of world history .
27 Most will be reluctant to undergo assessment , either because they are involved in criminal activity or they expected to be subjected to a judgmental and disapproving attitude towards themselves , or because they are afraid their children may be removed from them .
28 The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends .
29 It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was .
30 It seems or it seemed to us till lately — a natural thing that love ( under certain conditions ) should be regarded as a noble and ennobling passion : it is only if we imagine ourselves trying to explain this doctrine to Aristotle , Virgil , St Paul , or the author of Beomuy , that we become aware how far from natural it is .
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