Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 2 | Helping residents or reminding them to go to and from the toilets is a daily part of your duties . |
| 3 | Then , in a postscript , as if feeling that his measured words had not yet said enough , he added with a sudden note of desperation : ‘ May God preserve us & make us continue to be joy & comfort & wisdom & virtue to each other , my dear , dear , Poole ! ’ |
| 4 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 5 | But Walcott does n't give his characters enough to do , or make us warm to Sonny so that we care whether he stays a tourist toy . |
| 6 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 7 | Whenever she felt unwell or oppressed she embarked on a new course of treatment at the alternative medicine centre or ingested a new range of vitamins . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if the incentives are too high , they may themselves distort the market , by giving the beneficiaries an unfair advantage or enabling them to operate in a way which does not reflect genuine supply and demand . |
| 9 | Right , I 'm here vir virtually throughout the vacation , erm , I 'll be here until the beginning of next term , so if you are having problems of any sort , or want me to run through something with you , just er , feel free to disturb me . |
| 10 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 11 | Does Kerry like Take That any more , or has she gone off them ? |
| 12 | Or has it got ta be on this line here ? |
| 13 | Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ? |
| 14 | A person in possession of a moveable chattel ( e.g. a painting ) who loses it , or has it stolen from him or otherwise taken from him against his will can demand it back within five years from any person who then has possession of it [ Art . |
| 15 | Is he the sort that he actually wants one , or has he bowed to the advisers that he 's got from the War Office and so on who say the soldiers need it ? |
| 16 | Paul stared at the reeds in the narrow river ; the Clyde wound here like a country stream , and up the grass incline women hung out washing or spread it to dry on a fine day . |
| 17 | ‘ Not to play at soldiers with your men , or let them play in the band in the park on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 18 | Susan wondered how she would feel if he did ; or if she touched him or let him know in some other way that she was there ? |
| 19 | or let me lay on my belly |
| 20 | But on terms he knows the boy wo n't accept himself or let us accept for him . |
| 21 | A degenerate male voice exhorted its hearers to give it love or let it die in peace . |
| 22 | By day we 'll offer to show you around the island or let you laze by the pool — the choice is yours . |
| 23 | In his letter to the Romans , he wrote that whether we live or die we belong to God . |
| 24 | Helmut Kohl 's calls to brief Major on the British economy are doubtless answered by a builder screaming at the German Chancellor to speak English , or ordering him to get off the line so they can deal with the other jobs they 've got on the go . |
| 25 | The bulb inside would be attached to a battery and when the bulb flashed the heat sensitive powder would explode — either splitting the copper pipe or causing it to splinter into shrapnel . |
| 26 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 27 | David was urged on by Beth 's insistence that he ‘ talk some sense into the boy , or watch him go from bad to worse ’ . |
| 28 | But the larger questions of how to anchor Germany to the West or watch it turn towards Central Europe , went unanswered . |
| 29 | Some churches are happy to scatter the ashes in the graveyard or bury them according to the family 's wishes . |
| 30 | I asked her if her work at college had forced or stimulated her to think about school in general , and what it is for . |