Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1755 serious friction had developed between England and France over their respective Far Eastern and North American colonies , and it was rapidly learned in London that the French had , though reluctantly , decided that only a major invasion of England itself could force the English to keep ships at home or bring them back from overseas . |
| 2 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 3 | For example , they transport schoolchildren to events in unmarked buses , or pick them up from locations outside West Belfast . |
| 4 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 5 | If it 's too hot , use gloves or push it over with a spade and lift the other end up so now the holes that were in the bottom are now on top and there is smoke coming out of them . |
| 6 | One of the Edinburgh employers ( perhaps inadvertently ) revealed that " either very experienced girls or experienced men make it up into pages or make it up into sheets " . |
| 7 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 8 | It was this , or lose her completely with certainty and forever — a prospect that he could n't even begin to face . |
| 9 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Or drops her off at the beach house . ’ |
| 11 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 12 | And take them back into the shop or send somebody else with them and er get our picture money that way . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I really ought to give them to her personally , or send them back to the bank . |
| 14 | I 'll be happy to give you her address , or send it on for you . |
| 15 | Disseminators of " indecent " material which lacks the potency to corrupt are generally within the law so long as they do not despatch it by post , or seek to import it from overseas , or flaunt it openly in public places . |
| 16 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 17 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 18 | or bulking it up with scouring powder |
| 19 | Pamela , the maid , is constantly beating a breathless retreat up and down back stairs , or pressing her back to walls to let the gentry pass ; her ascendancy to wife is dramatized by her spacious and easy progress from room to room . |
| 20 | If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user . |
| 21 | Or has it more in common with the intuitions of art ? |
| 22 | Even if I can get rid of the the tour operators erm or put somebody like onto because we got up and running now and I have n't got anyone to deal with it |
| 23 | One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound . |
| 24 | ‘ She said I 'd have to pay the full amount or put it back in the freezer , ’ said Mr Parker , of York . |
| 25 | Never throw a fork or spade or put it down near your feet . |
| 26 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 27 | Would release embarrass him or cut him off from that obscure membership of the masculine club ? |
| 28 | It was either that or dump herself on to the perch in a heap , having given up the struggle , and she was much too graceful and proud to let something as undignified as that happen . |
| 29 | It is impossible to see or sense anything here except tourism . |
| 30 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |