Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would remind you that I am the captain of this ship and that at sea not even an admiral can take over from me or give orders which I consider to be to the detriment of this vessel . ’ |
| 2 | As the £ dipped again on foreign exchange markets yesterday , the AA and travel agents advised Britons to buy travellers cheques in the local currency , take foreign money with them or use credit cards . |
| 3 | When you fill in a tax return you will have to declare all sources of income and the Inland Revenue will ignore them or deduct tax as necessary . |
| 4 | The Ministry of Works and Public Services was authorized to sell them or arrange concessions in them within 90 to 180 days . |
| 5 | Now , they would be thought obscene public perception has changed and understood that animals are sentient beings and that we demean our humanity if we are cruel to them or permit cruelty . |
| 6 | If in doubt on any matter please refer to the Police Officers in attendance and by guided by them OR contact Lothian & Borders Police , ‘ B ’ Division Headquarters , 14 St. Leonard 's |
| 7 | The next best thing to climbing mountains is reading about them or attending slides-theatres or watching films . |
| 8 | Nor may we punish criminals to a greater extent than their crimes are felt to deserve ( for example in the hope of reforming them or deterring others ) : under the retributivist principle offenders have a right to go free once they have ‘ paid their debt to society ’ . |
| 9 | Together with continuing anti-conscription demonstrations in Lithuania , this had prompted Defence Minister Marshal Dmitry Yazov on Nov. 27 to announce sweeping new powers for troops to fire on people harassing them or attacking bases , and to seize installations if vital supplies were threatened . |
| 10 | When the abbot was found , he was forced to join them or face execution . |
| 11 | Artegall will not confront them or allow Talus to flail them , and the book ends not with Artegall 's triumph but his return to Faerie Court with these two ugly figures taunting him . |
| 12 | She can not guess at his anxieties or burdens because she has never encouraged him to talk about them or found time to stop whatever she was doing and listen . |
| 13 | However this wo n't quite do either — one can say : ( 84 ) When I 'm in the office , you can come to see me where come glosses as " movement towards the location of the speaker at the time of some other specified event " ( let us call this time reference time ) . |
| 14 | In none of these cases can the inanimate subject of help be conceived as relaxing , coming round , getting in ahead of someone or discharging duties . |
| 15 | ‘ It is easier and quicker to do a task for someone than promote independence . |
| 16 | Hui says that because the source code is written under the assumption that the user knows both J and C , someone that knows APL and C will find J much easier to use than someone who knows only C. Another advantage is that J can run on a range of boxes , including the RS/6000 , Digital Equipment Corp VAX , Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh and iAPX-86 personal computers . |
| 17 | The theory behind the sections is that , if an owner of goods agrees to sell them to someone and retains title but nevertheless lets the buyer have possession , that owner must bear the consequences ( i.e. loss of title ) if the buyer then sells and delivers the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 18 | teaching us to be temperate in ourselves and moving mankind as a whole ‘ a little nearer the perilous safety of a warless and provident world . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ For us to promise the removal of nuclear power generation within 15 years would be to delude ourselves and mislead others . ’ |
| 20 | This means that not only do we describe ourselves to ourselves and create identity constructs but we can also face the issue of whether we want to alter those constructs and become another kind of person . |
| 21 | If they turn all their power on Forteviot , we either have to do nothing or cross the river ourselves and give battle . |
| 22 | Virtually all libraries did nominate someone as having responsibility for training ( only six libraries did not ) so at first sight it would appear that theoretically at least item ( 1 ) above has been largely fulfilled . |
| 23 | We like to see ourselves as born mavericks and fixers . |
| 24 | And nothing that takes place within the nervous system can explain why this property of intentionality should emerge there . |
| 25 | He also carried out fibre and hair tests , but found nothing that connected Nichol with the crime . |
| 26 | There 's nothing that connects Kemp . |
| 27 | Gaviria alone among the major candidates stressed a determination to continue Barco 's campaign to defeat the drug cartels , rejecting the possibility of political dialogue with them although modifying Barco 's stance by opposing the " indiscriminate " extradition of drug traffickers to the United States . |
| 28 | Ye would n't believe it , me that reads Playto like a scholar . |
| 29 | The 1979 Working Party on vibration organized at Link convinced me that amplified vibration has great potential for some ( but not all ) profoundly deafened people . |
| 30 | The past two years have shown me that getting people ‘ turned on ’ to quality is a huge challenge . |