Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be no problem for her to make a meal for two , or suggest he bring a take-away , and , prior to this morning , she felt she probably would have agreed to that . |
| 2 | Since the article need not be made or adapted for burglary , stealing or cheating it bears a wide meaning . |
| 3 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 4 | Was she real , or have I created her , or transmogrified her to suit a desired image of my own ? |
| 5 | Or has she had a lift ? |
| 6 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 7 | Doubtless there is a batteur in the wings or for the chorus , the orchestra only needing a maître de musique , or let us say a conducteur ; a batteur de mesure being not the ‘ most essential artist at the Opera ’ but the most intolerable … |
| 8 | Well , do you normally walk in or , or , or do you expect a ride ? |
| 9 | Do you want to order now or do you want a quote ? |
| 10 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 11 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 12 | The expectations on him to perform as a wit at the Painters ' Table further drained his energy and if feeling jaded or bored he drank a lot . |
| 13 | Whether we ignore the inner planets , or assume they add a tiny contribution to the overall effect , the key dates that come out of the analysis are the same — and I should have made that clear in the article . |
| 14 | Or suppose you have a program which is wonderful . |
| 15 | ‘ When you have showered or bathed you touch a sensor pad on the machine and it blows warm air over you . ’ |
| 16 | Are you struggling to find a particular product or feel you have a need which is n't being catered for ? |
| 17 | Where illness leads to loss of sight , speech or hearing it diminishes an individual 's ability to make use of counselling assistance . |
| 18 | In the meantime , since no amount of nagging would persuade Maxie to rake up the leaves or to allow her to employ a man to do it , she would have to do the job herself . |
| 19 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 20 | When banks withdraw funds , the Bank of England relieves the resulting discount market shortage at that rate of interest which it thinks appropriate , nudging rates upwards perhaps to reduce the demand for bank lending or lowering them to counteract a rising exchange rate . |
| 21 | Do we mean a symbol which only ‘ represents ’ a reality — like a road sign — or do we mean a sign which actually embodies or conveys , in some shape or form , the reality to which it points ? |
| 22 | Is it a compulsory set of questions on or do we have a choice ? |
| 23 | Do we , for instance , place a tick in the square labelled ‘ baby burps ’ and another in the box called ‘ mother pats back ’ ; or do we include a box called ‘ mother responds to baby ’ ; or at a higher level , does she score a point on an index of ‘ sensitivity ’ ? |
| 24 | Or do we get a new car ? |
| 25 | Should we identify brain functions with components of psychological processes revealed in psychological studies or do we need a new set of concepts for describing brain function ? |
| 26 | Or do they do a public service by tilting government towards more openness and accountability ? |
| 27 | Could they be introduced as token , surface changes or do they necessitate a fundamental reorganization of the way the school operates ? |
| 28 | Is it me or do they whistle a lot ? |
| 29 | Or do they exhibit a regular alternation , recalling the systematic mosaics seen in some non-mammalian species ? |
| 30 | Or do they need a mass literacy programme ? |