Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation . |
| 2 | By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level . |
| 3 | But it was quite impossible for the TCPA or me to bless the Plan unreservedly . |
| 4 | ‘ It draws all the Gentlemen to it whenever they are within , especially after Dinner , so that my Br Fanny & I have the Library to ourselves in delightful quiet . ’ |
| 5 | the last week in September and it was the last week it was open , so you 're better of going near the middle or I mean the beginning or |
| 6 | Or I mean the flood of phone calls that have no doubt saved the erm Green Party . |
| 7 | Or I said the money you do n't spend . |
| 8 | I do my bedroom out every day — sweep it and dust the furniture and I do something else every day , like I dust the tops of the cupboards or I give the wardrobe a polish . |
| 9 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 10 | I have no problem with empowerment or I love the word empowerment , because I split it up empowerment increasing the power we all have , for God 's sake what 's jargonistic about that ? |
| 11 | ‘ I work with Mr Mitchell or I refuse the assignment , ’ she snapped , her suspicions again aroused at this insistence on women only . |
| 12 | Or I spend the weekend in bed , dozing , lounging |
| 13 | Some boy or somebody cut the phone , you saw that at the beginning . |
| 14 | I could always get Fenella or somebody to answer the phone and I was n't in the phone book , so I figured that if I chickened out , I could block her . |
| 15 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |
| 16 | and you run the car , or somebody runs the car the other way |
| 17 | The other points to note on the Regulations are : ( i ) that advantage can not be taken of the section if a provision , ‘ however expressed , ’ of the company 's memorandum or articles requires copies of the full accounts to be sent to members or which prohibits the sending of summary financial statements ( ii ) that provisions , similar to those in relation to the full accounts , apply to approval by , and signature on behalf of , the directors of the summary , and ( iii ) that , up to the end of 1991 , most listed companies do not seem to have opted to adopt the innovation . |
| 18 | Approved by 193 votes to 39 with 33 abstentions , the new law permitted a termination during the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy which was the result of rape or which endangered the life of the mother , if the foetus was malformed , or if the pregnancy would cause a " psychological crisis " or a " social problem " . |
| 19 | This is so even if the interpretation given to an experience , or which stimulated the experience , is one not authentic to it , conditioned perhaps by the society of which the individual is a part . |
| 20 | A solicitor employed by a non-lawyer may not carry out professional work for any person other than his employer ( ie working directly with the employer 's clients is not permitted ) but may act for a company or other organisation controlled by the employer or over which the employer has substantial control or for a company in the same group as the employer or which controls the employer . |
| 21 | The proposals covered are development in a conservation area , works to a listed building or which affect the setting of a conservation area or a listed building , and developments in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 22 | I can not find out of the evidence any facts which support the view or which justify the inference . |
| 23 | Where a behavioural response has , in the past , been followed by environmental events which are pleasurable or which reduce the degree of discomfort experienced , then the same behaviour will be likely to occur in the future . |
| 24 | Okay , somebody suggested that the communication essay or which reflects the communication model w in the hand book it says that you 've had input from linguists , er sociologists , psychologists and people like that and in fact you have n't |
| 25 | Gerard advised use of the dried plant for those " that are giddie in the head or which have the turning called Vertigo . |
| 26 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |
| 27 | i if you go along with the the current situation on volume increases erm and er the simple choice on those is you either pay pay to cover the service levels or you let the service level deteriorate . |
| 28 | When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit . |
| 29 | When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit . |
| 30 | When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit . |