Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the only way of avoiding this presumption of responsibility is for the defendant to prove either ( a ) that the driving , accident or damage occurred before he took the car , or ( b ) that he was neither in , on or near the vehicle when that driving , accident or damage occurred . |
| 2 | Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets . |
| 3 | Midwifery training at Epsom & Surrey followed and she has recently completed a course in tropical nursing at the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases . |
| 4 | Eventually when the letter came in its blue envelope with the pious SAG printed across the seal , the hands so firm holding a gun or tool shook as he took it . |
| 5 | Or Fergie did when she hopped in and out of cars wearing Honest-Jill-Ordinary leggings and sweatshirts which said , ‘ Hey , forget Bali , I 'm just a working mum like you ! ’ |
| 6 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 7 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 8 | Neither Morgan nor Engels denied that he had no direct evidence at all for this first primeval stage of total promiscuity . |
| 9 | Neither Charles nor Nigel spoke as they heard his footsteps on the stairs , the slam of the front door , the gates being opened , and his car departing in a scurry of gravel . |
| 10 | Huy registered the threat , and Reni saw that he had , before turning to Taheb , stroking her hand as he spoke . |
| 11 | Both students and lecturers said that they felt that lectures gave an opportunity for personal contact . |
| 12 | Turner was n't a naturally violent man , and Doyle guessed that he had been ‘ put upon ’ inside , and had probably objected . |
| 13 | The President was a keen fisherman and Trent guessed that he hunted — despite the Pine Ridge being a Nature Reserve . |
| 14 | This qualification of support for the replacement of Friern and Claybury meant that it fell back upon regional officers , once again , to decide whether to go ahead with the initiative , or to abandon it . |
| 15 | her lips curled in a smile , and Patrick wondered if she knew what effect she was having on him — and then realized that she probably did . |
| 16 | I was merely quoting what the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside said and I have said that I am willing to give way to him . |
| 17 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 18 | She was wearing her afternoon uniform and Matey thought that she looked charming in it ; it was not surprising , after all , that Dr Neil had a soft spot for her . |
| 19 | But now she was whispering too and Dot knew that she did n't know what was out there with them either . |
| 20 | Jardine and Johnstone guessed that they had decided to strike out on their own now , no doubt reluctant to have to share any of their gleanings with others . |
| 21 | The villagers working there greeted Father Reynard warmly and Corbett recognised that they admired , even loved , their priest . |
| 22 | They entered the Lawnmarket and Corbett shivered when he saw the gibbet and its rotten , swaying human fruit , black figures against the moonlit , summer night sky . |
| 23 | The lion turned , jaws slavering , eyes ablaze with fury and Corbett flinched as it came towards him , belly crouched , its tail twitching , its hind legs tense , then it sprang . |
| 24 | People in this town starved , several buildings were bombed and crime soared because you had to steal to eat . |
| 25 | Colette and Bernard self-published works about matters holistic and mystical , and Ken relaxed when I told him I was working on a thriller . |
| 26 | He laughed with forced heartiness , as limping badly he began to walk along the corridor , leading the way , and Hari realized that he had used the laugh many times to conceal his true feelings . |
| 27 | He moved away into the night and Hari watched until he had disappeared from sight , then she closed the door . |
| 28 | William and Justine died because you did not love me . |
| 29 | By ‘ fine ’ DeFries meant everything was fine and David meant that he 'd left . |
| 30 | The pilot 's licence and log-book showed that he held a valid medical certificate but his last recorded Certificate of Experience ( valid for thirteen months ) had been signed in March 1986 . |