Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 3 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 4 | It means I carry or I take it with me . |
| 5 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 6 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 7 | If you have n't received a questionnaire , or you know somebody in that category , please would you contact Kate Purcell or Jarlath Quinn at the School of Hotel and Catering Management , Oxford Brookes University , , . |
| 8 | Oh I 've been to , or you rephrase it in another way . |
| 9 | Oh we 've done two or three , we usually do one Well er I would n't regularly but probably one every year or you ken something like that . |
| 10 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 11 | Eighteen forty six , eighteen forty eight , or eighteen fifty take a guess ca n't you or you have one in three chances this is one I did n't know , who were the Magi ? |
| 12 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 13 | If you ca n't move straight into your new home , or you find yourself with too many belongings , you may want to put some things into storage . |
| 14 | If something unexpected happens during an inner journey — perhaps one of your guides will appear when you were expecting your inner child , or you find yourself in a cave rather than on a riverbank — go with your own experience . |
| 15 | So I said do you want the truth or you want me to yourself ? |
| 16 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 17 | Outgoing FAXES are produced in much better quality than normal FAX machines as there is no ‘ scanning ’ of the original document — the only disadvantage is that you can not send an existing document , unless it has been previously sent to you , or you key it into Word processing or Desk Top Publishing . |
| 18 | Either that or you run yourself around ragged , and you go to sleep and then we get to one o'clock , two o'clock in the morning , and you wake up , and then what do you do ? |
| 19 | You can install the program on a hard disk if you have one , or you run it from two floppy disk drives . |
| 20 | If you do n't get to the finishing line through injury or you cross it in pain , seek help quickly . |
| 21 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 22 | As a first step , he or she identifies it by using a word-meaning which is conventionally taken to match the nature of the perception . |
| 23 | ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’ |
| 24 | Fairness requires that we judge a defendant on the facts as he or she believes them to be . |
| 25 | Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old . |
| 26 | Or we cuffed them under their chin — and after about half a dozen times , they never stopped there again . |
| 27 | ‘ Either we terrorise them into submission , or we abandon them to the vacuum of a permissive existence . |
| 28 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 29 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 30 | ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be . |