Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much school education has done little or nothing to try to correct these misunderstandings . |
| 2 | and leave you free to do a job , because you may think I mean , believe it or I 've turned this room inside out today ! |
| 3 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 4 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 5 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 6 | Needless to say Lord Elphinstone did not hesitate to respond to the challenge and rallied his friends , while at the same time pointedly expressing his hope , when writing to the duke , that ‘ neither my friend or I have done any thing to deserve your Grace 's withdrawing your friendship , interest & protection ’ . |
| 7 | What name have you given to the Water Hen which migrates to us yearly — or which did migrate last year and the year before . |
| 8 | If your marriage lacks sparkle , if you would like to know how to improve your relationship , or you have had serious problems but would like to save your marriage , the centre can be of help . |
| 9 | If you are unsure or you want to check current staff and service agreements then seek the advice of your trades union via a local steward or regional office . |
| 10 | or , or you going to have some honey and whisky and lemon ? |
| 11 | If , however , you ca n't get it out immediately , do n't poke and do n't stick your finger blindly down her throat or you risk doing more damage . |
| 12 | Either that or she 'd got two woollies on . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 14 | Anyone who takes part must register as soon as he or she has completed 15 minutes ' exercise , between midnight tonight and 10.30pm tomorrow . |
| 15 | If a friend or colleague whose opinions you respect tells you that he or she has received beneficial treatment from a particular hypnotherapist , perhaps that is the one for you to consult . |
| 16 | For the tutor it is the seventh conversation about The Prelude he or she has had that week . |
| 17 | In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company . |
| 18 | An additional , optional logical name may be set up by each user if he or she wishes to store cached information from one LIFESPAN logon session to another . |
| 19 | As soon as the ideator 's feet hit the floor in the morning , he or she starts to generate countless possibilities . |
| 20 | There should be no difference in principle between the patient diagnosed as having irreparable kidney failure who refuses to submit to dialysis on an artificial kidney or who refuses to continue such treatment and the polio victim on the ventilator who requested that the machine be switched off . |
| 21 | Patients with abnormal findings at endoscopy or who had had previous surgery were excluded from the study . |
| 22 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |
| 23 | A little bit of excess weight — say five or ten pounds — is not considered harmful , but for those who are seriously overweight or who need to lose some pounds because of their medical condition , the problem is knowing what diet to follow . |
| 24 | CAMRA supports tenants evicted so that pubs can be run by managers or who refuse to sign new leases on unfair terms . |
| 25 | Causality is here contrasted with indeterminacy : either one pretends that the origin of psychological peculiarities is known and that it has the force of explanation , as in classical psychoanalysis , or one chooses to relinquish this concept and to see identity as a matter of discontinuity and flux . |
| 26 | When we observe this , we should either refresh his mind by saying something with becoming liveliness or something calculated to arouse great wonder and amazement , or even grief and lamentation . |
| 27 | Or we 've used one set at E R C. |
| 28 | The " planned estimate " will be sent in all cases , even if you have a meter box outside your property or we have made other arrangements with you for access . |
| 29 | Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast . |
| 30 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |