Rules
Switches
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Both words in one sentence
- Datak, being Genre Savvy, invokes house rules and switches the champion to a Bioman, a genetically-engineered Super Soldier with muscles bulging all over the place.
Source: Super Ringer -
After playing by the real rules of fencing, Sharpe then switches to the rules of real combat (none) and quickly overtakes his genteel opponent.
Source: Flynning -
Also, Cordelia sometimes switches between "you" and "ye" with no apparent rules for distinguishing between them, and even uses "yerself" - seemingly meant to be a reflexive form of "ye" - although when "ye" was used in early modern English, its reflexive form was still "yourself".
Source: Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
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