Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
| 2 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 3 | You either keep in the light where you can see , or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you , because you can not see and you think it 's an enemy . ’ |
| 4 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |
| 5 | Although a spouse may be protected if he or she stays in the home , if the partner goes into permanent residential care , the spouse may want to move into smaller and more appropriate accommodation . |
| 6 | Qua researcher , the academic may inhabit world III ; but qua teacher , he or she works in the realm of world II . |
| 7 | Since normal practice is for a member to be issued with paid-up shares , the member 's liability is limited to the extent that the shares which he or she has in the company are rendered valueless . |
| 8 | Panorama also employs the concept of ‘ sticky ’ windows ; windows that are dragged around with user wherever he or she moves in the system . |
| 9 | Organisational authority refers to the scope and amount of discretion given to a person to make decisions , by virtue of the position he or she holds in the organisation . |
| 10 | As has been often demonstrated , however , this is not the case if we take the representative individual from a group divided on the basis of skin colour , parental occupation , gender or , in England , whether he or she lives in the north or south of the country . |
| 11 | In such a sample , the researcher specifies what type of people he or she wants in the sample , within broad categories ( quotas ) , and it is left up to the interviewer to find such people to interview . |
| 12 | The problems noted above are intensified for the management of stock revision programmes ; these are carried out by staff who are either subject specialists or who have in the course of the stock revision acquired a good deal of knowledge about the subject literature — certainly more than the line manager . |
| 13 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 14 | And er they would maybe er devise or make or r find a piece of suitable wood or something to scratch in the garden or in the sand or on a piece of nice soft soil , to make furrows and er imitate maybe what their Dad was doing out in the field and er they had no concept of doing anything else to play really , it was just pretending they were pretending they were grown up and working . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've found Kelpie , my budgie ! ’ cried Penny , ‘ and I think there 's a baby fox or something caught in the trunk of that hollow tree ! ’ |
| 16 | Or we play in the park all day . |
| 17 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 18 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 19 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 20 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 21 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
| 22 | show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ? |
| 23 | So I hope , in my remarks , and I hope in the general tone of the debate , there 's enough to reassure London Region that we need to move forward at a careful pace . |
| 24 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 25 | And I respond in the same way . |
| 26 | The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel . |
| 27 | Melissa unfolded it and strapped the twins in when we reached the village and I parked in the pub car park , as instructed by Carol . |
| 28 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 29 | I 'm a glossy magazine , and I 've in the tube . |
| 30 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |