Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb base] a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’
2 I 'm telling you all this , and perhaps you do n't have to erm pay for any of these treatments we do gift vouchers , so if you 've got anybody who wants to buy you a gift of any sort , you could always say well , I fancy erm an eyebrow trim , or I fancy a pedicure perhaps they would like to buy you a gift voucher and then you can come in and it could be a present for you .
3 Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books .
4 ‘ You had better make sure , lady , or I send a message direct to Tracy . ’
5 2.00–2.30pm She takes her lunch break : ‘ Usually a banana sandwich , or I nibble a bit of fruit ’ , she says .
6 You see , I think housework is a waste of time , I do n't do it , or I do a minimum .
7 Or you catch a cold and you just do not feel up to it ?
8 You either give up watching or you keep a score do n't you , yeah ?
9 Lavender again is good for headaches and it 's good if you ca n't sleep or you suffer a bit from insomnia .
10 You can get a free safety check on gas appliances and installations from British Gas if : your are over 60 years of age and you live alone or with someone who also qualifies ; you are a registered disabled person of any age and you live alone , or with someone who also qualifies ; or you receive a state disability benefit and you live alone or with someone who also qualifies .
11 I mean we had an example from the miner 's strike but that ha was happening far away in a sense and it was just something that you could support or yo you did n't support or you put a tin of beans in the box in Quix and that was what you did you know sort of And then actually faced with having to accept food from that people had given you in a way , it 's a very quite a difficult concept .
12 And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger .
13 And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk .
14 It 's either the correction button going or you need a new one .
15 If you decide that kit garages do not offer what you want , or you have a particularly awkward site to cope with , you may decide that you have no option but to design and build a garage to suit your requirements .
16 If you 've recently joined the NCT , or you have a new baby then let me know and I 'll put you in contact with another member who lives nearby .
17 One of the lads go in front , or you have a travel head lad , you got the spare lads who ride a hack .
18 If that 's your reason , or you want a fresh plan ,
19 Or you want a businessman
20 At this point you realise that you either need one computer to generate the images and a second to handle the transfer of these to the film recorder or you buy a bulk film pack ( which at over £6,000 costs as much again as the PCR/SlideWriter ! ) and run the imaging process overnight .
21 Does he or she have a significant past medical history which will influence good wound healing ?
22 Either that or we write a couple of variations on the end of this and we say the general access conforms to this but in their case , the other one is pre-booked , the extras and they have a booking schedule .
23 We want to erm er found out , or we make a decid
24 Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion .
25 She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement .
26 I am , however , open to reasoned and informed argument and I await with interest your correspondents ' blueprint for reversing our economic decline , bearing in mind that the stark choice is that we either increase our earnings or we accept a quite considerable reduction in our living standards .
27 Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides .
28 As this is no longer a public holiday , many people arrange either to work on a Bank Holiday in order to have this day off or they take a day of their holiday allocation .
29 Some relationships have already split up before girls realise that their periods have stopped or they feel a bit sick , and they discover they are well and truly pregnant .
30 Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache .
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