Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] or [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no way in which he can free himself from my control , not unless I lose my nerve or allow him to be abducted by some plagiarist , and not unless I allow any of my own present personal dilemmas connected with my own personal escape to lodge unbeknown to me in the words which make up this fictional character . |
| 2 | Had I stuck to my principles or had I simply followed orders ? |
| 3 | My poor mother , I am sure , could n't determine whether to commend my prudence or berate me for my lack of romance . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ I never struck him with my fists or kicked him in the face when I was in a standing position . ’ |
| 5 | But was I still wearing some of my clothes or carrying them all bundled in my arms ? |
| 6 | Not once did EMF lose their tempers at my teasing or threaten me with physical violence . |
| 7 | Though I warn you , ’ he gestured threateningly , ‘ do n't waste my time or engage us in meddlesome , wasteful tricks . |
| 8 | Probably the majority of paedophiliacs suppress their inclinations or indulge them only in fantasy . |
| 9 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 10 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 11 | Will he explain why he wrote to UKIAS on 7 October threatening that unless it accepted the Government 's proposals he would withdraw its funding or curtail it completely ? |
| 12 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 13 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 14 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 15 | This is not to assert , certainly , that there exists some entity , outside an experience or episode , which experiences or possesses it . |
| 16 | But when we come to look at the cluster and the and the audience contact then then you know we may see something a little bit different , Okay but er those are the important aspects things like things like whoops the use of the hands you know several people put their hands in their pockets or put them behind their back or something like that . |
| 17 | She might even be weaving a spell to tangle her feet or make her lose her way in the wood ! |
| 18 | Turning from the attractions of the Scotch whisky industry , can the Minister give us more information about the important regulatory aspects of getting companies which sub-contract to the Ministry of Defence to pay their bills or have them paid quickly ? |
| 19 | Nevertheless , if you pick the required specimens carefully , you 'll be able to remove several leaves or flowers from , for instance , a bush in full bloom without spoiling its appearance or harming it . |
| 20 | Was it her imagination or did he seem suddenly a little ill at ease ? |
| 21 | Just because they are OK with you it does n't mean you are blind to their inadequacies or view them through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 22 | The end result will be no different whether the shareholder takes up his or her rights or sells them in the market ; the end value of the holding will remain unchanged . |
| 23 | Nothing had happened to sour their relationship or to lead her to have negative feelings about him . |
| 24 | For more than a year Alexander , at the French King 's request , had been putting discreet pressure on Henry either to return Alice to her father or marry her to Richard . |
| 25 | Her first series on the Munros drew strong reactions from people who either loved her approach or criticised her for including ‘ flip ’ material . |
| 26 | No sooner does it fall back and hit the water than the whale flicks it into the air again with a blow of its tail or seizes it with its jaws and thrashes it on the water . |
| 27 | Pinned as she was beneath his weight she had n't even the leverage to free her arms or buck him off — though she tried desperately . |
| 28 | This is very similar to the posture a gull physically must take up just before attacking another gull by jabbing it with its bill or biting it . |
| 29 | Some may choose to neglect their health or to trade it for the freedom to do other things , as does the business executive who opts for a stressful way of life in pursuit of material success . |
| 30 | At no time should you ever share this knowledge with other residents or talk about their affairs , unless it is relevant to improving their care or reviewing it with other members of staff concerned . |