Example sentences of "[coord] he [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small wonder our society is so schizophrenic — because the minute the clerk walks out of the store , she or he is immediately bombarded with messages which are in total contradiction to those they receive as employees . |
| 2 | No , I do not wish to give any sort of name to it because I do not yet grasp the true meaning of this ‘ presence' : all that I sense , however vaguely , is that it or he or He is not hostile . |
| 3 | God , who is the Father of Jesus Christ , is either there or he is not there . |
| 4 | If you have n't got any issue but parents or fore brother or sister or the issue of that say it 's your nephews or nieces and you 've still got a spouse of course , she still is n't get She or he is still not going to get the whole lot . |
| 5 | If we want to influence another person and that person is working under enormous stress and is irritated by our request , we can stand back and wait until she or he is more relaxed . |
| 6 | Either there are more bitches on heat in the village nowadays , or he 's simply getting into the habit of looking . |
| 7 | Depending on which gossip column you read he 's either planning to wed his long-term live-in girlfriend , Toukie Smith , sister of the late fashion designer Willie Smith , or he 's secretly dating model Naomi Campbell . |
| 8 | Yeah , you 're quite right , or he 's quite right . |
| 9 | Thus the judge 's exercise of the discretion entrusted to him stands unless he exercised his discretion on some erroneous principle or he misunderstood the evidence or he was plainly wrong . |
| 10 | Either he was married or he was n't . ’ |
| 11 | Barney Moss either did n't know who had staked the seed money … or he was n't telling , and not even the Spanish Inquisition was going to change that state of affairs . |
| 12 | It was all a dream , or he was n't properly awake . |
| 13 | Or he was n't listening very hard . |
| 14 | For instance , after she had said I would have remained in ignorance , the tree opens wisdoms way though secret she retire , the word secret catches up almost by a mechanical verbal train of association the thought and on it perhaps secret and then all these uneasy feelings that perhaps God 's so far away , or he was n't watching , or in some way or other he did n't actually see . |
| 15 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 16 | The change was not his fault , although he was guilty of the self-deception or he was still talking of ‘ the ploughman ‘ with his team on the world 's rim … ’ ’ . |
| 17 | Either that or he was about to sneeze . |
| 18 | Either that , or he was in for a very sticky evening indeed . |
| 19 | But either it was not hunting or he was too big to tackle , for it disappeared over the heather ; and although he waited motionless for some time , it did not return . |
| 20 | Or he was only knee high to a duck . |
| 21 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 22 | She could do a lot worse — 'e 's a good , steady man and 'e 's not given ti strong drink . ’ |
| 23 | Because because Annabel and me and him were originally on the |
| 24 | You may also need to help her to transfer to the list of your own general practitioner , if she and he are both agreeable to this ; and of course she must be assured that you , or some other member of the family will be with her on the actual day of the move or , if she wishes , take the responsibility of it off her shoulders completely . |
| 25 | Or you and he are only friends ? ’ |
| 26 | You and he are about to move mouth . ’ |
| 27 | His shoulders are broad and he is strongly built . |
| 28 | At every stoppage in the senior game the referee is applauded or jeered depending on which arm he raises to award the put-in , and he is rarely considered correct by everyone . |
| 29 | in the coming year , and he is today announcing that we are doubling the size of the homeless mentally ill programme in London . |
| 30 | Cokes have long moved in Royal circles , and he is well placed to advise the new Earl Spencer on estate affairs and any more delicate matters . |