Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 2 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 3 | When my brother or I had a fever , my mother or my grandfather used to come here to find leaves or roots to cure it . |
| 4 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 5 | For instance , I bought it from John and John sold it to me , or I received/got a letter from John and John sent me a letter are equally ‘ natural ’ as far as the phraseology of English is concerned ; their ‘ acceptability ’ is , of course , determined by the context in which they occur . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me , are you paid to do this , or you got a problem with this man ? ’ |
| 7 | Or you joined a sports club . |
| 8 | Because the definition of ‘ informal carer ’ can be so vague , we decided to focus on each person 's principal carer ( if there was one ) , defined on the objective criterion that he or she spent a minimum of seven hours per week ( on average one hour per day ) doing things with or on behalf of the dementia sufferer , rather than rely on the more subjective criterion of who appears to be most responsible for the sufferer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A duty solicitor had an obligation to provide advice to persons in custody and , if desired , to make a bail application ; he or she had a discretion to provide advice and representation to defendants , whether or not in custody , in cases involving imprisonable offences , and even in connection with non-imprisonable offences in exceptional cases . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’ |
| 16 | Beginning with the family into which an individual was born , he or she contracted a series of group memberships in quasi-familial institutions or groups , such as school , college or company . |
| 17 | Er further to what John said about the er , Young Inventor , we were fortunate enough last year to have er our competitor , or we had a , we held a competition locally |
| 18 | Or we made a little fault with the design . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Either the youngsters have a view of the world that is the complete opposite to that of their seniors , or they decided a man of the church should be left to get closer to the heavens . |
| 21 | Aunt Hettie and Uncle Fred said nothing , bless them , when I puffed my way through a packet of cigarettes or they smelt a hint of beer on my breath . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think anyone let it in , I 'd guess the door was open or it had a key . ’ |
| 23 | If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti-climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area . |
| 24 | He did n't tell her it broke his heart every time the Argentines hurt a horse or he saw a terrified stray dog racing by the side of the road . |
| 25 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 26 | And neither Simon nor I fancied a stranger moving in with us . |
| 27 | For the first time , Shirnette and me had a real fight , because of what I hated most . |
| 28 | And it seems to have happened because thirty years ago everybody like Jerry and me had a repayment mortgage which meant there were very few endowment mortgages . |
| 29 | Then Michael and me did a lot of singing . |
| 30 | I must have knocked it or something and I 'd a couple of shots left and I ought to have shot the swine but I could n't , not while he was sitting there killing himself laughing . |