Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complete the following : ‘ a ? \ @*; £ ! % beats as it sweeps as it cleans ’ ; ‘ a \ @*?; & a day helps you work rest and play ’ . |
| 2 | A ticking off at school , or a beating left me encrusted with guilt . |
| 3 | When they 're still children a mother or a whore gives them a piece of broken mirror in which they trap a ray of the sun and reflect it into one of the Palace windows . |
| 4 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 5 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 6 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 7 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 8 | These committed groups , or a committee to represent them , could appoint the auditors and receive their report . |
| 9 | " Not a town or a village have I missed , but nowhere have I found a twin boy and girl named Stoja and Stojane . |
| 10 | Or a bomb blew it off . ’ |
| 11 | Your determination to ‘ get it right ’ will impress far more than a false sense of confidence or a reluctance to admit you could do with assistance . |
| 12 | It is only when an action or a meeting moves us that we can find joy . |
| 13 | It was a command , not a question ; or a refusal to believe I could refuse again . |
| 14 | even if the church was And they 've cut all the side , the other side , Church Street they 've cut all the hedge of the church down there and dumped all the grass inside , no not the grass , the branches , inside well you 'd think they 'd get a blooming lorry or a van to take it all down the blooming tip would n't you ? |
| 15 | Intransigent as always , she had refused to allow either her maid or a groom to accompany her . |
| 16 | I do n't know if he hit his head or a bullet hit him . ’ |
| 17 | It may be lack of understanding of the appropriate diet or an inability to put it into practice . |
| 18 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 19 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 20 | While there is trouble between Copt and Moslem he can not offer it to a Copt nor a Copt take it . ’ |
| 21 | It is a tacit acknowledgement that neither office nor a peerage awaits them . |
| 22 | But this is not a work of criticism , nor an attempt to make you like The Faerie Queene or the Confessio Amantis . |
| 23 | Nestled on a mountain terrace nearly 1,000 feet above the azure sea , from here the views are magnificent and a cablecar links you to Taormina Beach below . |
| 24 | Juliet tapped , and a voice told them to go in . |
| 25 | He shouted , and a voice answered him in Welsh . |
| 26 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 27 | Nearly half did n't know about the official guidelines and a quarter admitted they had no monitoring procedures . |
| 28 | ‘ I went out to see what was going on and a policeman told us to evacuate the area . |
| 29 | A head and a chest faced him , half-hidden . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |