Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened the door of the nearest one , but gingerly in case there was a puma or something the RSPCA had forgotten . |
| 2 | The odds are on your side : give him or her the chance to back away with pride fairly intact , and the opportunity may be taken to leave you well alone . |
| 3 | The adult commits the offence ; the law imposes on him or her the duty to resist whatever temptation is provided by the under-age person . |
| 4 | The advantage of using a switch which is either completely off or completely on over any form of variable resistance as in linear supplies , is that no power is dissipated in this sort of control element , whatever the load requirements are or whatever the voltage developed across the switch happens to be . |
| 5 | The snag here is that when the contours of the sand and soil take a sharp turn up , down , sideways or whatever the rabbit follows the same line . |
| 6 | Perhaps she never realized quite how deep-seated was this need , but shop , as well as factory staff , could not fail to be impressed at the way both she and Bernard always knew their names , asked with interest about their home life and would always try and help if there was a problem by sending taxis , flowers , hot meals or whatever the crisis demanded . |
| 7 | Or whatever the owner allowed . |
| 8 | We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) . |
| 9 | Never mind what the US government says or what the public thinks — that 's how it worked . |
| 10 | There had n't been time on the way up to ask him what the results of the tests had been or what the union had consequently decided . |
| 11 | So is he to be he does n't know whether to just carry on or to put a stop to it now or what the hell to do |
| 12 | She is affirming that delinquency is neither an inborn disposition nor something the child has contrived by himself ; that children learn to become delinquents by becoming members of groups in which delinquent conduct is already established and the ‘ thing to do ’ ; and that a child need not be ‘ different ’ from other children , that he need not have any twists or defects of personality or intelligence , in order to become a delinquent . |
| 13 | We pride ourselves in being able to offer anyone and everyone the OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE in their chosen sport or leisure pursuit . |
| 14 | The wife , we learn , is the one who is about to be tried for the crime , and nothing the narrator has been able to say has convinced the police he himself is the guilty man . |
| 15 | C'm on , secretly just between you and me the voice persisted in her head , it would be hard not to . |
| 16 | could you possibly give Ian , Zain and me the authority to work that one out . |
| 17 | As regards others who are terminally ill and whom the law regards as incompetent — for example , the unconscious , the mentally ill , the mentally handicapped , or the seriously confused — it is not clear that anyone has authority in law to consent to or refuse treatment on their behalf . |
| 18 | From this pale and anaemic-looking girl who had once thought only of turning the heads of young officers , and whom the Collector had considered insipid , he now saw a young woman of inflexible willpower emerging . |
| 19 | Barbara Jefford , a fellow student , played the tart and I the guard sent to capture her . |
| 20 | We demand that our work should be recognised for what it is — we produce and reproduce in other people and ourselves the ability to work and go on working , we produce labour power . |
| 21 | Products which fall in the top left-hand group are those which are in attractive markets and which the company handles well . |
| 22 | The Council will not on such an application for readmission review , annul or amend the decision of the Disciplinary Committee which led to the expulsion and which the Council had formally approved . |
| 23 | The University shall provide the accommodation , catering services and other services specified in writing in the booking and which the University has undertaken in writing to provide , except in circumstances in 6.1 of these Conditions . |
| 24 | In Scale 1 Hilton defines the obstruction to the sight and sound of Jesus as the body of sin and death from which Paul cried to be delivered ( Romans 7:24 — 5 ) and which the anchoress encounters in the progress of her meditative life . |
| 25 | The government is now washing its hands of the industry as it hands it over to a rigged market which will leave very few pits in Britain and the destruction of an asset which the British people asked the government to save and which the government said they were going to save . |
| 26 | That is the guarantee for which people are looking and which the Government appear to be failing to deliver . |
| 27 | It has been held that a signal which was given with a lamp at night and which the driver failed to understand was not sufficient for failing to stop . |
| 28 | Ian falls victim to a disease which , for a long time , has been killing the Sensorites and which the Doctor traces to the city 's water supply . |
| 29 | The Maggot 's Beechcraft clawed higher , its progress punctuated by the alarm sirens that the Maggot ignored and which the senator had learned not to worry about . |
| 30 | We know , too , the frequent result of such crude precautions , the often painful unpleasantness-to use a mild term — which results from putrefaction , and which the undertaker assures the family is ‘ quite inevitable ’ … whereas when the body has been prepared by the Operator it keeps the appearance of life for an indefinite period , and the last look remains as a pleasant remembrance to their friends . |