Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 2 | Valdo , Alemao and others often showed a remarkable lightness of touch in the soggy conditions but several times promising movements failed for want of a penetrative final pass or someone reading the right space at the crucial moment . |
| 3 | Sally was the one , or somebody wanted the other programme I put the tape in and recorded |
| 4 | And you do n't need to put in the whole amount , but then if you do n't put in the whole amount or you withdraw the net interest which you 're entitled to do then you 're pulling away the build-up are n't you ? |
| 5 | Or you loved the melodramatic gesture more . |
| 6 | He or she co-ordinates the assistant education officers ( see below ) , and deals with major initiatives such as secondary school reorganisation . |
| 7 | Someone who can not predict what will happen after he or she takes the first drink . |
| 8 | An applicant for judicial review may lose the case no matter how sound it might be as a matter of substantive ( as opposed to remedial ) law if , for example , he or she pursues the wrong procedure for seeking a remedy or does not satisfy the rules of standing ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 9 | In operational terms , someone has a need for health care if he or she has the appropriate indications for the intervention in question . |
| 10 | If the originator chooses to proceed , he or she enters the next phase , referred to as initial screening . |
| 11 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |
| 12 | Either we can know the position exactly , in which case we sacrifice all specification of momentum , or we make the converse choice . |
| 13 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 14 | Ask him or her to urge the new Home Secretary , as a matter of urgency , to consult with relevant organisations with a view to drafting a new Asylum Bill ; |
| 15 | Only " tough love " is helpful , loving the sufferer but allowing him or her to take the full consequences of all actions caused by the disease . |
| 16 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 17 | But j just before you go , Tom , the issue on whether or not Peter or or it lets the thinner section deep groove ball bearings , is n't going to rest on . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 19 | What the alternative to today 's degenerate and evil society is presents no immediate problem : women are once again hidden from sight , or married ones have their hair shorn ; thieves are once again punished by having hands or legs cut off ; alcohol , or whatever else is ritually prohibited , is banned ; and Koran , or Bible , or whatever constitutes the authoritative compendium or eternal wisdom , provides complete practical and moral guidance on all subjects , as interpreted by those whose business it is to do so . |
| 20 | Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum ? |
| 21 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 22 | Unluckily , neither the inspector nor myself spotted the stray soap and after slipping arse over tit he put his head through the water tank . |
| 23 | But , internally , you need to make sure that your auditors and your , and everyone understands the same thing . |
| 24 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
| 25 | Very often , if you isolate a sound it 's not that good , but with Keith and me playing the same thing , they combine and one complements the other . |
| 26 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 27 | I envied them their sexual freedom and their self-assured dignity , and I despised the British vice squads that ran them in and were not above enjoying their charms for a consideration . |
| 28 | The £200 estimate soon knocked the smile off my face , though , and I hope the guilty party is having trouble sleeping at night . |
| 29 | Recent decisions from Europe give clear rules as far as the union 's concerned and I hope the Labour Party . |
| 30 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |