Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Are these the same instructions as last time , or has he reissued them ?
2 She did not throw clothes away if she could mend them or alter them to make them more fashionable .
3 Or do we send them to Mike ?
4 Or do we want them really to understand what they 're doing first presumably .
5 In other words , by asking about each how it answers the question — ‘ do girls fail , or do we fail them ? ’
6 Or do we hit them before they come to the boil ? ’
7 As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ?
8 Or do they rent them off the Council or what ?
9 Is that right or do you give them hell ?
10 ‘ Do you look forward to having a baby again ? ’ asked the woman intently , ‘ or do you prefer them when they 're older ?
11 Shall I just throw these away then or do you want them to have a second look at or , yeah , I 'll bin them .
12 Do you put them in too deep , or do you put them too shallow .
13 or do you lose them s somewhere else ?
14 Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ?
15 Do you go and tell somebody about something , or do you write them a memo ?
16 Or do you need them because of working in various parts of the country ? ’
17 Are his keys with him or did he hand them in before he went ? ’
18 Or did I buy them as odd presents for people who might like them ?
19 Did you say you wanted some pot some , or did you get them ?
20 Or does he pinch them ?
21 as opposed to the , but , but some cupboard doors are diamond pattern , Muffin will you be quiet have we any more bones cooked for them or have they had them all ?
22 Or have I put them away .
23 Mhm , going back to the actual erm house itself , you ever had , do you , have you had any problems with repairs at all or have you found them okay when ever you 've had any .
24 And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through .
25 It 's crazy , it 's crazy , if only people again 'd sit back and look at it and see exactly what 's happening , rather than saying it serves them right , they should n't of done this , they should n't of got themselves into that position they 're in that position
26 That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so .
27 The players become cold and indifferent when they do not follow the soloist directly ; the stick that directs them humiliates them , takes away their natural wish to excel …
28 What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them ?
29 It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are
30 Although most of these techniques are expensive and difficult to use , it is possible that at least some of them may become more easily available ; they can be very useful both for discovering in detail how English speakers produce their speech sounds , and for demonstrating to learners of English their pronunciation errors in a way that helps them to correct them .
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