Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 3 | Or do I drag you out ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Are you going to tell me your story , or do I demand it of the world at large ! |
| 5 | Or do I kill your husband now ? ’ |
| 6 | Can I put it another way to you , that if houses are provided for people who have migrated from West Yorkshire to North Yorkshire , that the failure to provide for employment of an equivalent level , because I well appreciate we are not going to stop Mr Laycock driving or commute I beg your pardon commuting each day from Harrogate to Leeds , that failure failure to provide an adequate level of employment for those new residents would be contrary to the advice in P P G twelve and P P G 14 about reducing the need to travel ? |
| 7 | You want to draft out the message , or have me do it ? ’ |
| 8 | Do you think they were faulty or have I done something wrong ? |
| 9 | Or have I missed something in the rules ? |
| 10 | Does this sum up the kind of house you want , or have I missed something ? |
| 11 | Or have I stopped you ? |
| 12 | Or have I put them away . |
| 13 | Was she real , or have I created her , or transmogrified her to suit a desired image of my own ? |
| 14 | Nor do I expect you to believe me because my bearing is sincere and my words plausible . |
| 15 | I do not answer , nor do I open my eyes , but I am stirred by the relentless bleep and static of the answerphone ; words , artificial like a megaphone , filtering through . |
| 16 | Nor do I want him to become blase about the violence many of these packages feature — he might get the notion that beating up people in real life is no big thing . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want you to put on an artificial accent , ’ Mother Francis had warned , ‘ nor do I want you sticking out your little finger when you 're drinking tea . ’ |
| 18 | Nor do I think they will be able to charge anything like the premium they used to ; in fact , it 's debatable whether they 'll be able to charge a premium at all . ’ |
| 19 | Nor do I think we are , as a rule , justified as we may be with adults in using a child 's attraction to the worker to advance casework . |
| 20 | Nor do I think it necessary to consider for the purposes of the present case to what extent the common law may provide the public authority with a defence to a claim for the repayment of money so paid ; though for the reasons I have already given , I do not consider that the principle of recovery should be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 21 | I can not attend the Action Group 's first meeting , nor do I think I will be able to do this regularly in any case . |
| 22 | She had little option but to do so , nor do I think she was particularly amused . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Nor do I think there is any point making churches into multi-purpose buildings . |
| 24 | I do n't think it 's possible to try and keep it exactly as it used to be , nor do I think you 'd want to . |
| 25 | Nor do I think he had the right to frighten me while driving here . |
| 26 | Nor do I consider your sneers ( a reference to Theo 's occasional sarcasm ) aimed expressly at me … . |
| 27 | It is not practical politics to abolish private schools , nor do I believe it right to do so , in the interests of freedom . |
| 28 | I 've never been to Venice before , I can prove it , nor have I met your father . |
| 29 | Nor have I found them anywhere else in the box so far … |
| 30 | Nor have I washed my linen and hung it out to dry . " |