Example sentences of "he [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Or you can use " s/he " and " her/his " to replace " he and/or she " .
2 The most prominent orienting devices remain the symbolically defined frames of reference of social roles , which are integrated by the constant process of the individual 's or the group 's construction of his own identity in the context of the world as he or they know it .
3 It allowed John Gorsuch six months to begin to make search and a whole year from the time of commencing the said search to " … have use and employ all the ore metals or minerals he or they shall find during the said year for himself … " but it was providing that efforts , trials , and searches were diligently made , employing " four sufficient and skilled workmen thereat … "
4 If you try and arrange a meeting with a colleague or even a group of colleagues and he or they have already booked the time slot you want , you get to know about it before it 's too late .
5 Where the director or directors is or are not in sole control of the company , there is no difficulty in holding that he or they can appropriate from the company and the property belong to another .
6 ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be .
7 Coaching can be a great help — but it can also get in the way , for slavishly following a pedantic teacher can produce very strange results , with the candidate ending up trying to sound like someone he or she is n't .
8 Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about .
9 When the cellarman judges that the beer is in perfect condition , he or she hammers a tap through the wooden or plastic keystone in the tap hole of the cask .
10 Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company .
11 ‘ You mean as long as I clean the bath , he or she will leave me in peace , right ? ’
12 Make sure someone stays near so that if your child is sick , he or she can be prevented from inhaling vomit .
13 When your child wakes up , be reassuring ; he or she is likely to be upset .
14 After the emergency , give your child the opportunity to talk about the incident and about any other worries he or she may have .
15 The more openly you and your doctor can talk together , the better the service he or she will be able to give you .
16 The last is always the more interesting type ; not infrequently he or she is an impressive doer , sometimes an eloquent speaker ; some , very few , are both .
17 ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’
18 Have you stopped to consider how much he or she costs you ?
19 In another experiment one of the pair had a non-illusory view ; for example he or she had portholes of plane glass .
20 In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury .
21 You can not blame a brilliant young player who takes , say , the $200,000 he or she is offered , to play just for one night but it inevitably gives them a totally false impression of life and what their tennis priorities ought to be .
22 He or she may recommend chiropody , or visits from a district nurse ; or physiotherapy may be required to help regain mobility after an operation .
23 Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure .
24 Or the moment can be an important point in an overall design to fill space , such as the moment in a grand jeté en avant when the dancer 's two legs are at an equal height from the ground and he or she appears to travel onwards effortlessly through space .
25 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 .
26 Each nomination must be proposed and seconded by two members of the Campaign and be accompanied by a signed declaration from the candidate that he or she is willing to stand .
27 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 .
28 What he or she has to say is always open to comment , questioning , refutation .
29 The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English .
30 It is true that Pound does not readily conceive of a reader who is not also an aspiring writer — something that led Leavis astray when he tried to retort to How To Read ; but there is no harm , and much profit , in letting the student of the history of poetry suppose that he or she is in due course going to write poems .
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