Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 3 | And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk . |
| 4 | If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby . |
| 5 | If that 's your reason , or you want a fresh plan , |
| 6 | This does not mean that the interviewer becomes a cold clinical robot , but it does mean that he or she uses a particular instrument in the way that it is designed to be used — for objective study . |
| 7 | An individual 's attitude to the question of the political context in which the legal system operates will depend on whether he or she takes a supportive attitude to the political status quo or wishes to challenge it . |
| 8 | Now Potts J. has illuminated the way for the definitive judgment of Phillips J. As they have shown , the plaintiffs claim that each was injured when at birth he or she became a legal person damaged by the prior act of the respective defendants , and that when each such act was done it was reasonably foreseeable that it might result in the plaintiff being born damaged . |
| 9 | If a manager joins a sales team from another department where he or she enjoyed a good reputation , this v–ill go before them and influence the attitude of the team . |
| 10 | Before the provision contained in rule 3(7) was enacted , the law governing standing to apply for prerogative orders was , in simplified terms , as follows : a person could apply for certiorari or prohibition provided he or she had a genuine grievance or , in other words , provided the applicant was a person aggrieved by the challenged decision . |
| 11 | His Offensive Weapons ( Scotland ) Bill would put the onus on the person carrying a knife to prove he or she had a valid reason for doing so . |
| 12 | As such he or she establishes a close working relationship with the chief executive officer . |
| 13 | Your plugger should contact all the DJs with whom he or she has a good relationship , trying to persuade them to play your record . |
| 14 | The second must be that he or she has a long life . |
| 15 | If the researcher is interested in discussions of government finance in the Treasury , he or she has a potential problem of informational over-kill . |
| 16 | Dealings with clients ' money — a solicitor must keep a careful and separate account of any money of yours that he handles and must account to you for deposit interest if he or she holds a significant amount of your money for a significant length of time . |
| 17 | Or we made a little fault with the design . |
| 18 | She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement . |
| 19 | Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion . |
| 20 | It is one thing to trust a middle-management appointment to an executive search consultant within a small firm ; it is quite another to trust him or her to find a new group chief executive . |
| 21 | In a spoken message we notice the quality of the voice as well : maybe the speaker 's voice was shaking , or they had a particular accent , or hesitated , or slurred their words . |
| 22 | Or they have a little book where they can look it up . |
| 23 | Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache . |
| 24 | They either indicate where the grave is without strings attached , or it becomes a shoddy exercise which should be refused . |
| 25 | For the first time , Shirnette and me had a real fight , because of what I hated most . |
| 26 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 27 | So then they have to fill out all the forms all over again and I get a stern warning against giving false information to police officers ! |
| 28 | Er , and I slided a wee bit . |
| 29 | The offer of a glass of Calvados was politely refused and I accepted a large glass of red wine that really tasted good . |
| 30 | The shows on that 1987 reunion tour are among the best we 've done and I remember a cracking night in the Olympia which would have been the last time we visited Dublin . |