Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 In practice , writers on style have differed a great deal in their understanding of the subject , and one source of disagreement has been the question " To what or whom do we attribute style ? "
2 I would be most grateful if you would telephone and speak to either Heidi or me to let me know if and when this would be convenient for you .
3 Yes , why I am asking you or I did I say
4 When he or she does we ask for details like what club they are in and what experience they 've had ’ .
5 Everybody who had a key I mean if there was a number to or something to do they have to know .
6 It 's so hard to express how being jilted by a lover or something makes you feel without sounding … you write best when you have a certain objectivity … when your writing is both the passenger and the driver . ’
7 Well just be in one , er sort of the side or something do you know what I mean ?
8 Him or him , or him do you think ?
9 Or what does he think ? "
10 well she put , cos she usually she buy phone card or what does she call , cos I asked her do you remember ?
11 Well some of the questions you think erm you think erm you know , are n't they a bit well way out or what made them ask that .
12 and it has a or what do they call it ?
13 Would you like coffee and biscuits or would you like some fruit or a piece of bread and jam or what do you fancy ?
14 But that , that causes its own problems because erm , you know , do you just become one of them or what do you do , and
15 So would I , would I still use that or what do you think , painkillers or what doctor ?
16 Do have this business chap staying all of Sunday or what do you think ?
17 Is there quilts or what do you know ?
18 Or what do you say ? ’
19 So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ?
20 What have you taken , or what do you take ?
21 Or what did they do we should have done ?
22 So when you looked at in the in the exam , did you think , Oh , they 're not giving me enough information here , or There 's some trick I do n't know , or what did you think about it ?
23 What , what did you get for the fir , or what did you reckon the first set of claims you decided wanted to be accomplished .
24 did you sort of play table tennis with them , or what did you do ?
25 ( In practice , questions like this may be replaced by the mayor was what ? or what did you say the mayor was ? , but these will cover the point which we are about to make just as well . )
26 Or what did he know ?
27 or what did I ascribe to him ?
28 And it 's obvious , is n't it , that certain people simply have n't a clue as to where you are at or what makes you tick .
29 If you 're wearing , if you 're wearing headphones right you do n't stop everybody 's bound to work out and everyone lets you wear them , everyone 's bound to work out you 've been given permission to wear them .
30 He got spoiled with Mrs Sargent always buying him things and everyone letting him do what he wanted .
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