Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked just like those horrible Yahoos , and at first I could not let them touch me or come near me . |
| 2 | Hindley says he is wicked , and ca n't play with me or eat with me any more . ’ |
| 3 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 4 | ‘ Remember , the range on this thing is quite long enough for me to dispose of you at any moment should you try to desert me or plot against me . ’ |
| 5 | For over 13 years these good people have advised me or acted in my name and your service . |
| 6 | He did n't want to see me or talk to me , he or his parents . |
| 7 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 8 | You have two choices — flee from me or belong to me . ’ |
| 9 | We never recorded what information we sent them or received from them . |
| 10 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 11 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 12 | It does n't include the unregistered and unmeasured unemployed — women with men who have to maintain them or claim for them , and those whose dole is exhausted but who are disqualified from supplementary benefit because they live with wage-earners . ) |
| 13 | Those on the sidelines tried not to see them or know about them , but it was difficult . |
| 14 | You should never talk to them or go in their cars or houses . |
| 15 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 16 | The content of the text appeals to them or fits into their experience differently . |
| 17 | I no longer believed them or believed in them , having to believe in myself as a matter of survival . |
| 18 | It can be a fairly minor loss , like social status or face — some people suffer agonies for fear that someone will laugh at them or sneer at their taste or intelligence , for example . |
| 19 | Moreover , there is no room here to explore the comments further , to probe the reasoning behind them or to see to what extent they represent a wider consensus . |
| 20 | Classes are fine when you 're teaching them or learning in them , very long and boring when you 're just an observer . |
| 21 | Try to recognize your needs , and try to spend time fulfilling them or asking for them . |
| 22 | We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity . |
| 23 | ‘ Most of the time we were so busy rushing the posters out that we did n't have time to read them or think about what they said , ’ said Mr Mark Roblett , 27 , the elder of the two brothers whose south London company came to the aid of both parties . |
| 24 | When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 . |
| 25 | They will be put under the strain of doing jobs for which they are unsuited and as a result will either leave after a short time , have the humiliation of being told they are unsuitable , or cause difficulties for other staff who have to rely on them or cooperate with them . |
| 26 | So the simplest method of disconnecting the pipes is to saw through them or to cut through them with a pipe cutter . |
| 27 | Whatever formal characteristics Lyons might attribute to English in theory , in practice it would be difficult for him to sustain the claim that ‘ it is possible to address someone or talk about someone in English without indicating one 's relative social status or attitude ’ . |
| 28 | Why has this major change in attitudes come about , and why all this concern about health in an affluent Western world where we can congratulate ourselves and count on our good fortune in having all the benefits of modern medicine to protect us unlike the peoples of the developing world ? |
| 29 | Let us instantly go to my closet or yours and come upon our mutual trial for you have fired by soul with impatience . |
| 30 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |