Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
| 2 | In order to reassure the House and the public , perhaps the Minister can explain what is the procedure when a police officer uses the powers given in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to stop someone in the street or someone driving a car . |
| 3 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 4 | When my brother or I had a fever , my mother or my grandfather used to come here to find leaves or roots to cure it . |
| 5 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 6 | For instance , I bought it from John and John sold it to me , or I received/got a letter from John and John sent me a letter are equally ‘ natural ’ as far as the phraseology of English is concerned ; their ‘ acceptability ’ is , of course , determined by the context in which they occur . |
| 7 | I 'm telling you all this , and perhaps you do n't have to erm pay for any of these treatments we do gift vouchers , so if you 've got anybody who wants to buy you a gift of any sort , you could always say well , I fancy erm an eyebrow trim , or I fancy a pedicure perhaps they would like to buy you a gift voucher and then you can come in and it could be a present for you . |
| 8 | ‘ You had better make sure , lady , or I send a message direct to Tracy . ’ |
| 9 | 2.00–2.30pm She takes her lunch break : ‘ Usually a banana sandwich , or I nibble a bit of fruit ’ , she says . |
| 10 | You see , I think housework is a waste of time , I do n't do it , or I do a minimum . |
| 11 | Yeah , well I think that we ought to get them or somebody to put a retraction , I mean we dare n't do it ourselves , but I think in next month 's |
| 12 | Apparently Sid or somebody put a fiver in . |
| 13 | An example is rule 2.10 : " Advertisements should not include copy or illustrations which are sexually titillating or which imply a link between smoking and sexual success . " |
| 14 | Any horse which works hard , particularly in the summer months , or which sweats a lot at any time in the year , may be suffering from electrolyte loss . |
| 15 | It was inevitable that when confronted with the initial chaos the Trust 's staff concentrated on dealing with trees which blocked roads and drives or which posed a threat to the safety of people or buildings . |
| 16 | Next , because while they apply primarily to those who work on their own account , they may equally be used by employees who work for companies which do not have a pension scheme or which have a scheme for which they , as individuals , are not eligible . |
| 17 | You either give up watching or you keep a score do n't you , yeah ? |
| 18 | Lavender again is good for headaches and it 's good if you ca n't sleep or you suffer a bit from insomnia . |
| 19 | You can get a free safety check on gas appliances and installations from British Gas if : your are over 60 years of age and you live alone or with someone who also qualifies ; you are a registered disabled person of any age and you live alone , or with someone who also qualifies ; or you receive a state disability benefit and you live alone or with someone who also qualifies . |
| 20 | I mean we had an example from the miner 's strike but that ha was happening far away in a sense and it was just something that you could support or yo you did n't support or you put a tin of beans in the box in Quix and that was what you did you know sort of And then actually faced with having to accept food from that people had given you in a way , it 's a very quite a difficult concept . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me , are you paid to do this , or you got a problem with this man ? ’ |
| 22 | And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger . |
| 23 | One of the lads go in front , or you have a travel head lad , you got the spare lads who ride a hack . |
| 24 | Or you want a businessman |
| 25 | At this point you realise that you either need one computer to generate the images and a second to handle the transfer of these to the film recorder or you buy a bulk film pack ( which at over £6,000 costs as much again as the PCR/SlideWriter ! ) and run the imaging process overnight . |
| 26 | Because the definition of ‘ informal carer ’ can be so vague , we decided to focus on each person 's principal carer ( if there was one ) , defined on the objective criterion that he or she spent a minimum of seven hours per week ( on average one hour per day ) doing things with or on behalf of the dementia sufferer , rather than rely on the more subjective criterion of who appears to be most responsible for the sufferer . |
| 27 | ‘ Each and every time a subject assessor visits a centre , he or she submits a report of the outcome to SCOTVEC . |
| 28 | A duty solicitor had an obligation to provide advice to persons in custody and , if desired , to make a bail application ; he or she had a discretion to provide advice and representation to defendants , whether or not in custody , in cases involving imprisonable offences , and even in connection with non-imprisonable offences in exceptional cases . |
| 29 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 30 | Any time some southern television producer wants a bit of good knockabout , he or she arranges a duel between Teresa Gorman , the Billericay battleaxe , and Teddy , the Southend shouter . |