Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No chance that they 'd have conspired to bribe Ramsbum or Gooseneck or someone to do it for them ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Either the seeds blew in — or someone planted them as a joke , ’ said a senior officer . |
| 3 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 4 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 5 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 6 | It means I carry or I take it with me . |
| 7 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 8 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 9 | Who were extremely keen to locate in this county , everything was right for them , Mr Allenby 's borough had the site , my clients had the site should I say , and erm but we lost it to Humberside because it was not possible for either Harrogate or ourselves to look them in the eye and say yes we can guarantee planning consent . |
| 10 | we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . |
| 11 | ‘ even in these days when affrays , riotous behaviour and other disturbances happen ill too frequently , we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . ’ |
| 12 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 13 | If you have n't received a questionnaire , or you know somebody in that category , please would you contact Kate Purcell or Jarlath Quinn at the School of Hotel and Catering Management , Oxford Brookes University , , . |
| 14 | Oh I 've been to , or you rephrase it in another way . |
| 15 | Oh we 've done two or three , we usually do one Well er I would n't regularly but probably one every year or you ken something like that . |
| 16 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 17 | Eighteen forty six , eighteen forty eight , or eighteen fifty take a guess ca n't you or you have one in three chances this is one I did n't know , who were the Magi ? |
| 18 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 19 | If you ca n't move straight into your new home , or you find yourself with too many belongings , you may want to put some things into storage . |
| 20 | If something unexpected happens during an inner journey — perhaps one of your guides will appear when you were expecting your inner child , or you find yourself in a cave rather than on a riverbank — go with your own experience . |
| 21 | So I said do you want the truth or you want me to yourself ? |
| 22 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 23 | Outgoing FAXES are produced in much better quality than normal FAX machines as there is no ‘ scanning ’ of the original document — the only disadvantage is that you can not send an existing document , unless it has been previously sent to you , or you key it into Word processing or Desk Top Publishing . |
| 24 | Either that or you run yourself around ragged , and you go to sleep and then we get to one o'clock , two o'clock in the morning , and you wake up , and then what do you do ? |
| 25 | You can install the program on a hard disk if you have one , or you run it from two floppy disk drives . |
| 26 | If you do n't get to the finishing line through injury or you cross it in pain , seek help quickly . |
| 27 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 28 | As a first step , he or she identifies it by using a word-meaning which is conventionally taken to match the nature of the perception . |
| 29 | ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’ |
| 30 | Fairness requires that we judge a defendant on the facts as he or she believes them to be . |