Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it me or does the school letter come crawling round once a fortnight at your place ? |
| 2 | When someone hears the national team news , could they e-mail me or mail the list , as r.s.s is increasingly poor at giving information like this . |
| 3 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 4 | At this stage there will be a decision to do nothing or pursue the issue . |
| 5 | If they turn all their power on Forteviot , we either have to do nothing or cross the river ourselves and give battle . |
| 6 | Nowadays all serious conditions were diagnosed before the child was born and steps taken either to correct them or to abort the foetus . |
| 7 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |
| 8 | If certain key individuals have still not arrived start without them or cancel the meeting . |
| 9 | I hope a new Labour Government will not only apply those policies but will lead the rest of Europe instead of squabbling behind them or relinquishing the whole of the case . |
| 10 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 11 | Stop em and have the stuff on them . |
| 12 | I and infecting the country that you go |
| 13 | All of us are very good at blaming ourselves if things go wrong and feeling upset , but we must be fair with ourselves and take the credit when things go well . |
| 14 | ‘ We can exert ourselves and win the battle for funding for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 15 | Its methods may improve our understanding of our patients and ourselves and form the basis for behavioural changes , on which reduction of the risks of the disease still largely depend . |
| 16 | Living is never an exact science and we invariably over reach ourselves and destroy the balance of things . |
| 17 | Quickly she pulled her hand away from his and opened the car door to scramble out . |
| 18 | Nicola had stopped trying to hit Goldman ; she was wrenching her body sideways each time he grabbed her , turning away from him , away from the car , using her full weight against his and losing the contest moment by moment . |
| 19 | The young man who has been married at the same time as his peers does not share his wife with them nor do the wives share their husbands . |
| 20 | If the workers fail to perform , the supervisor will guarantee to do the job himself or assist the workers to do it . |
| 21 | He waited for Ballater to explain himself or to state the reason for his visit . |
| 22 | the kind of graceful , tolerant , sleepy boy who is showered with favours and crowned with all the laurels , who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part , without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others . |
| 23 | Much of the exercise was done in front of a mirror so that he could see for himself and correct the sag on the right side where his ribs had been removed . |
| 24 | Then , when he was done with that , he nodded to himself and blanked the screens . |
| 25 | All the different interest groups have suddenly been allowed to come out into the open and in some cases it is a question of each for himself and damn the rest . ’ |
| 26 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 27 | Louis put a hand up to the boom to steady himself and crossed the cockpit to where Gomez lay on the cockpit sole like a beached grouper . |
| 28 | He resigned himself and let the car drift back to a comfortable fifty-yard gap . |
| 29 | Fox executed the office of Secretary himself and made the Council 's Examiner , Thomas Sherer , his deputy as Clerk of the Council . |
| 30 | Believing that all he had to do was crown himself and slay the princes , Malekith marched into the sacred flame , confident that like his father before him he could endure the ordeal . |