Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anti-lobby group 's tactic , which became a habit , was to report particularly sensational comments made by Sir Bernard or his underlings and to name the source . |
| 2 | Previously , the Aquino administration had been reluctant to charge Marcos or his wife with a criminal offence , for fear that their presence in the country could provoke an uprising by their supporters . |
| 3 | as well as a host of other academic successes — but neither Arnold or his successor , Dixon , ever took more than eight boys a time and most of them carefully selected — few were born deaf . |
| 4 | ‘ Denis or my Mum would drive . |
| 5 | That has not been the attitude of David Houghton or his group , and they are to be congratulated for that . |
| 6 | He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Because he stayed in the bath too long and got shrunk , ’ said his grandad , who could never get into the bathroom when he wanted to because William or his mum were usually there , her in the bath or him on the lavatory reading a comic , which was one of his little pleasures in life . |
| 8 | He was not someone whom Rigby or her classmates had seen as a pin-up type . |
| 9 | A top notch slab of noise ; I know bog all about Monsterland or their music but ‘ Peanut Butter Karma ’ is a rockbeast . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ There 's nothing here for Lisa or her horde of advisers to feel ashamed of . |
| 11 | She could n't see who drove it , whether it was the familiar face of either Doyle or his companion , but it seemed to be keeping its distance . |
| 12 | The Operators & Observers of the River Adige & Its Banks are running a second Green Canoe Tour down Italy 's second longest river from 24th to May 7th to make the local population aware of the environmental threats to the river . |
| 13 | Ann is leaving her home in Haslemere this February for a new life in Caracas , Venezuela where her husband has been posted . |
| 14 | Others , evidently , showed less concern for Germany or her inhabitants , but were of the opinion that the economic chaos of that country , if not halted , might spread with alarming rapidity to the world at large . |
| 15 | Things have changed enormously , but it 's , so it took sometime for them to get to know that they , the French were at war with , the Prussians and the Austrians , and do n't forget that Strasbourg is only on the other side of the Rhine from Germany or whatever part of Germany er , it was at the time . |
| 16 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 17 | If I meet Edgar Linton or his servants , I 'll shoot them . |
| 18 | But he would not be drawn about the prospect of being reunited with his estranged wife Becky or his affection for former girlfriend Arabella Tait . |
| 19 | He had no taste for further encounters with either Cunningham or his wife . |
| 20 | Lothar received his earliest education in Rome , probably at the Benedictine abbey of St Andrea al Celio where his teacher was Peter Ismael . |
| 21 | And that finishes on the Friday or whichever day of the week and you start the next day . |
| 22 | The rice that the peasants in the research area bought came from Burma , Thailand and China , not from the Ivory Coast or its neighbours . |
| 23 | Taking the case at its highest against the plaintiffs I assume for the purposes of considering this point that either Mr. Twycross or his secretary took the opportunity of the presence of the son in the office to hand the letters in their envelopes to him for the purpose of delivery to the parents . |
| 24 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 25 | This was denied by all succeeding rapacious English kings , on the basis of a blatant forgery concocted by Edward or his minions . |
| 26 | Despite his immense forces ( though Bede or his sources may have exaggerated Cadwallon 's numerical superiority for dramatic effect ) , it was Cadwallon who proved the more vulnerable , far from home and by now an isolated member of the alliance which had conspired to defeat Eadwine . |
| 27 | Although Gilbert and Ward found little sign of political protest in the areas of Colombia , Venezuela and Mexico where their research was carried out ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) , Castells documents protest movements in Mexico City ( Castells 1982 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ You should understand ’ — the Edinburgh tone was now quite unmistakable — ‘ that I do n't know either Dersingham or his sister at all well . |
| 29 | This enamelled box , made either for Aymer or his father , displays the arms of England , Valence , Brittany ( Dreux ) , Angoulême , Brabant and Lacy . |
| 30 | By 1202 he had accepted from William Brewer an offer of a fine of 500 marks for the marriage of the daughter and heiress of Hugh of Morville , late hereditary warden of Inglewood forest , with his son Richard or his nephew Richard Gernon , and for having Hugh 's forest wardenship on the same terms . |