Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 2 | ‘ Alternatively , a woman may have low self-esteem , feeling she can only impress others or make them like her by buying status symbols or the latest fashions . |
| 3 | Her hands flew to his shoulders , but whether to fend him off or make him stay she could not have said . |
| 4 | ‘ Shall I be mother and pour or d' you want me to disappear while you two talk Jockey Club business . ’ |
| 5 | I mean , that 's the kind of thing one often hears on this programme , is it wishful thinking or d' you think we could actually achieve it ? |
| 6 | If you then say , yes I think that 's very good I 'll do as you say you do not repeat no give them your money , or let them handle your money . |
| 7 | I certainly do n't have to let him take advantage of it or let him bludgeon me into a marriage that would be power-based and intolerable . |
| 8 | But you do n't tell him Condor is a DIA operation or let him think you 're with DIA HUMINT . |
| 9 | Or let him damn himself with his own words ? |
| 10 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 11 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 12 | You can then either hem and gather it with shirring tape before it is fixed to the walls ; or let it gather itself naturally as you push the rods through the turned-over hems at top and bottom . |
| 13 | The water was fine , as long as you did n't drink it or let it touch your skin . |
| 14 | You 'd think he would either apply for another one or , or let you have his . |
| 15 | When you say Supported , do you mean they did n't object or do you mean they |
| 16 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 17 | Or do we send them to Mike ? |
| 18 | Or do we dump it ? |
| 19 | Or do we want them really to understand what they 're doing first presumably . |
| 20 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 21 | And do we , do we find some partners or do we do it just the two of us ? |
| 22 | In other words , by asking about each how it answers the question — ‘ do girls fail , or do we fail them ? ’ |
| 23 | As a church do we put ourselves with Jesus on the side of people in need or do we allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear or the temptations of wealth and forget what we would rather not know ? |
| 24 | ‘ Or do we hit them before they come to the boil ? ’ |
| 25 | Moreover on a single decision — do we license this environment to the rest of the industry or do we keep it to ourselves — can depend the entire future of a computer company , with the wrong decision spelling oblivion . |
| 26 | Yeah , does that mean er whenever I send out the application fee of two hundred and fifty pounds some months ago , er did we get that back or do we get it back ? |
| 27 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 28 | ‘ Laverne , do ya wan na bring your bicycle in from the rain , or do ya wann it to rust to the spot like everything else round here ? ’ |
| 29 | Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ? |
| 30 | Or do they bide their time and seek to defuse the situation by negotiations via a mediator ? |