Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were amused by the way she consumed endless bowls of ice-cream or asked them to make her special snacks in between the normal meals . |
| 2 | Mr Jordan 's advice to any woman who thinks her doctor has behaved unprofessionally or asked her to do something humiliating is to refuse straightaway and report the incident . |
| 3 | It was a gamble between being bumped off for lying earlier or allowing him to think he was gaining no advantage by my presence in the household . |
| 4 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 5 | The principal is required to give his clerk specified minimum training ( or to enable him to receive it from others ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Alternatively , a woman may have low self-esteem , feeling she can only impress others or make them like her by buying status symbols or the latest fashions . |
| 7 | Her hands flew to his shoulders , but whether to fend him off or make him stay she could not have said . |
| 8 | She might even be weaving a spell to tangle her feet or make her lose her way in the wood ! |
| 9 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 10 | ‘ We very much need to speak to them , and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said . |
| 11 | ‘ We very much need to speak to them and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said . |
| 12 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 13 | These er er orders today are n't based on a thorough inquiry er into how audits on the the financial institutions are conducted , what 's wrong with them , what goes wrong , not even a thorough er inquiry into what happened in the B C C I case , er we ca n't legislate , we ca n't legi or regulate I put it without er er er a thorough inquiry and yet here we have er orders brought in er without inquiry . |
| 14 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |
| 15 | Or has she outlived her usefulness ? ’ |
| 16 | Is there any reason to suppose her otherwise , or has anybody taken it into his head to try her ? |
| 17 | Has it made him more docile and thus easier to control , or has it destabilised him ? |
| 18 | For a resident , little things become so big when your whole life can revolve round what 's for lunch and can you sit in your usual place or has someone pinched it ? |
| 19 | Can Spanish hero Carlos Cardus go one better in 1991 , or has he missed his biggest chance of winning the title ? |
| 20 | ‘ Are these the same instructions as last time , or has he reissued them ? |
| 21 | Or has he had it " n good authority " that it is true ? |
| 22 | ‘ Shall I be mother and pour or d' you want me to disappear while you two talk Jockey Club business . ’ |
| 23 | I mean , that 's the kind of thing one often hears on this programme , is it wishful thinking or d' you think we could actually achieve it ? |
| 24 | If you then say , yes I think that 's very good I 'll do as you say you do not repeat no give them your money , or let them handle your money . |
| 25 | I certainly do n't have to let him take advantage of it or let him bludgeon me into a marriage that would be power-based and intolerable . |
| 26 | But you do n't tell him Condor is a DIA operation or let him think you 're with DIA HUMINT . |
| 27 | Or let him damn himself with his own words ? |
| 28 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 29 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 30 | You can then either hem and gather it with shirring tape before it is fixed to the walls ; or let it gather itself naturally as you push the rods through the turned-over hems at top and bottom . |