Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or I 'm just seeing what he 'd said |
| 2 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 3 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 4 | This is nearly as demanding as the main route so I 'd only do it if the tops are covered in mist or you are absolutely worn out . |
| 5 | The teacher may lead the discussion or the activity , but he or she is also learning from the students . |
| 6 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
| 7 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 8 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 9 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 10 | In most universities , he or she is often called the vice-chancellor — the title " chancellor " being reserved for another notable figure who fills that largely ceremonial and dignified office . |
| 11 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 12 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
| 13 | When he or she is perhaps overwhelmed by events , offers of practical help may be exactly what the person could do with , rather than being asked to confront difficult emotional reactions . |
| 14 | ‘ Honda 's fitment of airbags , ahead of its competitors , meets the greatest remaining problem with current seatbelts — that of the driver 's face striking the steering wheel even when he or she is correctly restrained ’ |
| 15 | Where a registered foreign lawyer who would , apart from this rule , be required to pay an annual contribution or special levy , claims , and the Council agrees , that he or she is so covered in respect of dishonesty or failure to account , whether by a compensation fund other than the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund , or by an indemnity fund other than the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , or by compulsory insurance , that there is a substantial reduction in the risk to the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund in respect of his or her practice in comparison with the risk presented by a solicitor practising in a like manner , the Council may reduce that annual contribution or special levy to such amount as the Council thinks fit or to zero . |
| 16 | He or she is actually trying to exercise power over nurse or mother . |
| 17 | Such a figure is based to some extent on notional accounting — an expert 's time per hour is , for example , assessed at a much higher rate than he or she is actually paid — but it indicates the profit margins which both houses need to maintain . |
| 18 | If the idea originator wishes to proceed , he or she is then asked to prepare a brief , one or two page description , sometimes referred to as an idea memorandum ( IM ) . |
| 19 | He or she is certainly making a commitment to trust God . |
| 20 | Most of the time we 're either sitting outside the head 's office or we are either fighting or we are either arguing with them . |
| 21 | Most of the time we 're either sitting outside the head 's office or we are either fighting or we are either arguing with them . |
| 22 | Yeah but the thing is , it 's something that we 've got to think for life really , or we 're just gon na be in the same situation in a couple of years that we wan na something a bit bigger . |
| 23 | In fact , when they raise an issue , it 's either for a , a personal ego trip , or they 're just paying lip service . |
| 24 | anything or it 's never published that if you go self-employed |
| 25 | If the aim of judicial review is seen as being only the protection of individuals ( whether people or organizations ) , this would suggest and justify standing rules which require the applicant to show that he , she or it is specially affected by what has been done or decided . |
| 26 | Or it is merely called ‘ public policy ’ . |
| 27 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 28 | Small wonder our society is so schizophrenic — because the minute the clerk walks out of the store , she or he is immediately bombarded with messages which are in total contradiction to those they receive as employees . |
| 29 | Either there are more bitches on heat in the village nowadays , or he 's simply getting into the habit of looking . |
| 30 | Depending on which gossip column you read he 's either planning to wed his long-term live-in girlfriend , Toukie Smith , sister of the late fashion designer Willie Smith , or he 's secretly dating model Naomi Campbell . |