Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the abbot was found , he was forced to join them or face execution . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It is easier and quicker to do a task for someone than promote independence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If they turn all their power on Forteviot , we either have to do nothing or cross the river ourselves and give battle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And nothing that takes place within the nervous system can explain why this property of intentionality should emerge there . |
| 14 | Ye would n't believe it , me that reads Playto like a scholar . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But so is that part of me that feels alien in this country , lonely behind my wall of defences , inarticulate in my deepest pain . |
| 17 | However , Mr Summerchild has persuaded me that taking part in a discussion of this nature might lie outside Mrs Padmore 's job description , and could involve us in difficulties with her union … |
| 18 | ‘ Woe unto them that join house to house , that lay field to field , till there be no place , that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's absolute piffle to say that smacking children teaches them that using violence is OK . |
| 20 | If the nurse neglects this part of her role the amputee may fall and injure himself or lose confidence in his ability to adapt and cope with this problem . |
| 21 | The pathogens which cause dysentery , typhoid and some forms of gastroenteritis are excreted in the faeces , so hands contaminated with faeces , if inadvertently put near the mouth , can re-infect the person himself or infect food which may be consumed by others . |
| 22 | Belatedly Rostov collected himself and followed suit . |
| 23 | Athelstan breathed a prayer for patience , made a sign of the cross over himself and followed suit . |
| 24 | A young horse should never be hurried but allowed to enjoy himself and gain confidence . |
| 25 | But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur . |
| 26 | And , just as the conquest of Morocco had been undertaken at the turn of the century to counteract the divisive effects of " the Disaster " by giving Spaniards a new , common enterprise with which to identify , one might have expected that in 1956 Franco would resort to a military campaign to save Morocco to unite the regime forces around himself and divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 27 | Insp Steve Clapham , of Chester Police said : ‘ He 's poured some substance on himself and set fire to it . |
| 28 | A month later he discharged himself and trudged south to London . |
| 29 | Yeah , yes you 've got a car and you can go and visit somebody and go door to door |
| 30 | Kempton would have liked to have ridden Foinavon in the National himself but displayed loyalty to his owners on two counts — his minimum riding weight of 10 stone 10 pounds would put him 10 pounds overweight ; and he had another horse running at Worcester . |