Example sentences of "[pron] or [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Does it identify everyone or everything in the picture ? |
| 2 | Erm and they will keep them in the archives and I suppose transcribe them or something of the sort . |
| 3 | His eyes were fixed on someone or something at the room 's edge and Lucille , turning to see what had caught his astonished attention , saw the golden girl returning d'Alembord 's gaze with what seemed to be pure poison . |
| 4 | Lesley-Jane Decker had seen someone or something in the wings the previous night and it had made her scream . |
| 5 | This interviewer sees himself or herself as the natural successor to Sir Robin Day . |
| 6 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 7 | Under the general law a surety is expected to satisfy himself or herself of the extent of the risk proposed to be undertaken . |
| 8 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 9 | Any reader can , in any case , place himself or herself within the deictic centre by adopting an appropriate psychological distance towards those who lose their lives at war . |
| 10 | Tough love requires that the family member " lets go " of the primary sufferer and seeks help for himself or herself from the appropriate Family Fellowship , concentrating primarily on his or her own recovery from the addictive urge to fix or control the lives of others . |
| 11 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 12 | It is important to place something or someone on the point of rock between the two entrances . |
| 13 | They compel the reader to give something of herself or himself to the text . |
| 14 | Where a journalist intends to refer to an unnamed individual , it is reasonable that the individual should have an action for libel if others have correctly identified him or her as the target , whatever literary devices have been used as camouflage . |
| 15 | Although you should be helpful and guide the candidate through the interview do not go too far and start ‘ pointing ’ him or her at the right answers . |
| 16 | ‘ It is totally wrong that RTE should allow him or her on the Birthday Show . ’ |
| 17 | If you feel that your child may be mixing with youngsters who sniff glue , you could talk to your child and warn him or her of the possible risks and dangers involved . |
| 18 | Finding a competing behaviour means finding an acceptable activity for the child to engage in which robs him or her of the opportunity to perform the defined problem behaviour . |
| 19 | He always follows up , if necessary , with a second response to the customer to inform him or her of the corrective action taken . |
| 20 | The client will usually require the engineer to inform him or her of the likely final cost of construction at regular intervals . |
| 21 | The interviews identified a variety of entries into heroin use , based , first , on the relationship between the initiate and the person who introduced him or her to the drug , that is , the social ‘ how ? ’ ; and , secondly , on the reasons given by the users themselves as to why they took heroin in the first place , that is , the personal ‘ why ? ’ . |
| 22 | The police are only concerned with catching the offender and delivering him or her to the law so that justice can be done . |
| 23 | The Law Society may refuse to cancel an RFL 's entry where there are outstanding complaints about the RFL concerning his or her professional conduct or where there are proceedings pending against him or her before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal . |
| 24 | An unmarried partner may agree with the surviving relatives that provision will be made for him or her from the estate , but this is not always possible . |
| 25 | Specifically , the Commissioner has three functions : ( a ) to keep under review the carrying out by the Home Secretary of the functions conferred upon him or her by the Act ; ( b ) to keep under review the adequacy of any arrangements made for the purposes of restricting the use and distribution of the intercepted material ; ( c ) to give the Tribunal all such assistance as the Tribunal may require for the purpose of enabling it to carry out its statutory functions . |
| 26 | When did you last , after such a hug , instead of taking your partner to bed , take him or her by the hand and walk into the garden ? |
| 27 | In order to have a claim for payment a creditor must prove the debt owed to him or her by the company . |
| 28 | There is no tort or crime , as there would be if the police were to beat up the suspect or wrongly apprehend him or her in the first place . |
| 29 | You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . |
| 30 | If the child resists this to the extent of crying and screaming , the parent can desensitize the child by occasionally placing him or her in the high-chair during the day to play with a favourite toy . |