Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left my father , or he left her , when I was born — or earlier ! |
| 2 | So , whether or not they were armed , or he believed they were armed , he was right to kill them . ’ |
| 3 | I said er or he said we could have it for twenty pound a month and we said |
| 4 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 5 | He strengthens their integrity or he corrupts them ’ . |
| 6 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 7 | You must smash the egg quickly or else it will hatch out again and hound you until you get the knight again , or he gets you . |
| 8 | The stories grew more inflamed with the telling and witnesses were about equally divided as to whether Beatrice encouraged Modi to debauchery or he provoked her . |
| 9 | He could n't sleep , or he thought he could n't , for Hazel said that all night long he whimpered and gnashed . |
| 10 | What , they thought he was too good or he thought he was too good ? |
| 11 | Or he thought she had . |
| 12 | Only after weeks had passed with him ablaze like this did the hag stir on one occasion when he came to call and curse him — ; or he felt she did — with her eyes open and one hand raised and pointing . |
| 13 | Good payers too , or he misjudged them . |
| 14 | I do n't know whether he was turned down by them , or he turned them down , or something , I do n't know . |
| 15 | The manager ‘ brings out what is in them or he stifles them . |
| 16 | Or He did it , done he ? |
| 17 | He said : ‘ You see Hunter-Blair at parties or he rings you up when he wants his name in your column . ’ |
| 18 | No man will publicly humiliate a woman because she is ‘ old ’ or he finds her sexually unattractive : no woman will deride a man for his sexual insufficiency or because he is ‘ weak ’ or ‘ wet ’ or a ‘ wimp ’ . |
| 19 | Or he found us but but it is from the beginning , surely . |
| 20 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 21 | He used to go to a lotta places er that as knocked down or , well I could n't tell you the kind of job , but often there was some locks on the premises was er , perhaps needed repair or he wanted them to be in before he could leave the job and say here you are , that 's the job done . |
| 22 | The motorist is driving too fast because he does n't expect any children , or he expects them to be careful ’ |
| 23 | I auditioned and he hired me . |
| 24 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 25 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 26 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 27 | He expressed interest in the article for Leavis , which had been called ‘ Scrutiny of Modern Greats ’ , and he questioned me closely about the general intellectual mood at Oxford . |
| 28 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 29 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 30 | He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’ |