Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little or nothing escapes his eye and that makes any book he writes doubly valuable to the serious students of railway history . |
| 2 | I 've learned to live with it , because if it looks horrid , or someone tells me it 's horrid , I wo n't read it . |
| 3 | I said , Oh do n't bother I always I always get people ringing up saying so and so 's mother or father says or someone says you 've been teaching them and can you take me or can you take my son or daughter and it always works like that . |
| 4 | Or someone makes them up , of course . |
| 5 | The user is then free to choose the environment which best matches their use characteristics or which improves their aggregate efficiency measured in time , error or quality terms . |
| 6 | If the foreign gene codes for a protein that is toxic to insects or which affects their metabolism , then the resultant recombinant virus may well be more pathogenic than the wild-type virus . |
| 7 | we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . |
| 8 | ‘ even in these days when affrays , riotous behaviour and other disturbances happen ill too frequently , we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . ’ |
| 9 | It has also been suggested that the clustering or grouping of the water molecules will have an effect on any biological material which is dissolved in it , or which contains it . |
| 10 | Although every parent has the right in the fullness of time to decide whether he or she feels they can cope with their child , they can not be placed in a position of absolute power over its life if they have an extremely misleading impression of the form that that child 's life might take . |
| 11 | Overreacting with shock and dismay when the child first comes out with a four-letter word is the best way to ensure he or she uses it again and again . |
| 12 | Using a computer to help in your child 's education is fine , providing he or she understands what a keyboard is all about . |
| 13 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 14 | As a first step , he or she identifies it by using a word-meaning which is conventionally taken to match the nature of the perception . |
| 15 | If he or she asks you to pick something up , assert yourself or defuse the situation but do n't bend down . |
| 16 | If necessary , he or she will advise on the detailed layout of the cash books , and suggest that he or she reviews them occasionally to ensure their adequacy . |
| 17 | Also , if you catch the doc in a bad mood and he or she hears you taking the mickey , there are lots of particularly nasty cures which can be prescribed , such as : |
| 18 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
| 19 | When he or she does we ask for details like what club they are in and what experience they 've had ’ . |
| 20 | She either involuntarily submits in this role ( as does the woman on the pages of Penthouse ) or she does it voluntarily , like de Sade 's Justine or ‘ O ’ in the pornographic novel by Pauline Reage , The Story of O . |
| 21 | Parents sometimes feel embarrassed about describing their child 's problems in front of the child , so asking the child first why he or she thinks they have come to the clinic can open the discussion . |
| 22 | But anyway we 've grasped the point that the general elections it 's really down to the prime minister to er er to ask for the dissolution of parliament and the prime minister will normally a will normally ask for the dissolution of parliament when he or she thinks they 've got the best chance of winning . |
| 23 | but they have got Saturdays and Sundays , or she thinks there 's Saturday and Sunday , she 's gon na ask about it |
| 24 | How he or she handles it is vital . |
| 25 | How he or she handles it is vital . |
| 26 | Have you stopped to consider how much he or she costs you ? |
| 27 | Ca n't remember whether I owe Madge a letter or she owes me one . |
| 28 | That my mean risking your partner disliking what you have to say , but it is important that he or she knows your feelings . |
| 29 | ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’ |
| 30 | The domestic empiricist is not concerned with the generalities or principles underlying the cooker or the car ; he or she sees what has to be done to achieve a desired end and that is that . |