Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could quite easily have asked to meet me or my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces — with whom he has been corresponding , as he said — at the Ministry of Defence , where we could have discussed the matter in a more suitable environment . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , Miss Celia , as I still often think of her , being that young at the time and Mrs Tremayne not wanting her to know , pledging me and my eldest brother , Bert , to secrecy . |
| 3 | On returning to college this will assist them and their fellow course team members to finalise their own Stage 2 submission(s) prior to forwarding these to SCOTVEC by 28 February 1989 . |
| 4 | Every person is different and each has her or his optimal strategy for survival . |
| 5 | Clicking his heels together and bowing slightly , Tim — or Tiger Tim as his pals dubbed him — would formally introduce himself and his sniggering friends . |
| 6 | One of our basic problems is that modern scientific medicine and the society which it serves have to a great extent forgotten who and what human beings are . |
| 7 | We send you and your dear wife best wishes for the New Year . |
| 8 | So now I want you and your whole box of tricks off my ship and out of my way . |
| 9 | Effectively the NSA is defeating itself and its original purpose by its size . |
| 10 | Then she had gasped as he entered her and her poor heart burst with joy . |
| 11 | With affectionate humour he described her and his favourite aunt ( called by her clergyman father in remembrance of the line in Acts where when ‘ Peter knocked at the door of the gate , a damsel came to hearken , named Rhoda ’ ) as being like ‘ a couple of Bengal matches — you know , those fizzy things with a pink light ’ . |
| 12 | Harry Ford , who now lives in Santa Fe , New Mexico , met those who helped him and his 10-strong crew after their giant B17 crashed . |
| 13 | Memories overwhelmed her and her whole body flushed and tingled . |
| 14 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 15 | There is much to suggest that the visionary leader shares many of the actor 's skills in representing his or her strategic vision . |
| 16 | It all seemed important at the time , but notwithstanding the subterranean implications , Five Easy Pieces established Nicholson beyond doubt as the most effective actor of his kind around , and he was immediately rewarded with a second nomination for an Oscar ; he did not win it but his very inclusion meant two in a row for a relative unknown , a situation unheard of in recent Hollywood history . |
| 17 | The veil of ignorance operates so that the agent will not know his or her natural endowments , social situation , or conception of the good . |
| 18 | Every person has his or her own presence . |
| 19 | A mixture of something old and something new , everybody here at Club has his or her own favourite , and we 've also asked a few personalities to say a few words about their number 1 trip . |
| 20 | There will be a good choice of varieties , as each dealer has his or her own favourites aside from the usual Kohaku/Sanke/ogon mix . |
| 21 | ‘ There are very few craft-based training centres with dedicated training classrooms , where each student , eight or 12 to a classroom , has his or her own stove , bench and drawer . |
| 22 | Each of us has his or her own turn-ons and hang-ups , any of which may be " deviant " from the point of view of some others . |
| 23 | Every individual has his or her own writing style so the word ‘ truck ’ looks very different when written by two different people . |
| 24 | It can get a bit like M15 at times — each guest has his or her own dressing-room with a secret code number to get in — we 're constantly changing the numbers so that nobody can sneak in . |
| 25 | Each member of the Community has his or her own room except in the case of families when brothers or sisters can share a room . |
| 26 | ( e ) Receipted mortgages Unless the mortgagee has his or her own solicitor , it 's for the seller 's conveyancer to prepare and obtain the discharge of any mortgage over the property , and this is a reminder to prepare , in the case of a registered title , the Discharge of Registered Charge ( LR form 53 ) , or in the case of an unregistered title the usual statutory receipt endorsed on the original mortgage . |
| 27 | Every consultant has his or her own number and so does the assignment |
| 28 | The do-it-yourself bar code user therefore has to write his or her own reader software . |
| 29 | The teacher must be careful not to impose his or her own framework of response on what has been read . |
| 30 | To someone pitched into a matrix and left to find his or her own way the prospect is unsettling . |