Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eton , however , meant far more to me than my relationships with others , or the learning I acquired or the games I played . |
| 2 | I said or a teddy that does something . |
| 3 | what I wrote or the example that I worked out or even the way you did it yourself here |
| 4 | Perhaps a point was never reached where no more could get in , but they would be pushed and crushed until they died or the sides of the car burst with the pressure of them . |
| 5 | He was reminded of the behaviour of domestic felines — how they would kidnap smaller creatures from the garden , take them into the house and then taunt them , keeping them alive until they starved or the cats became bored with the game . |
| 6 | They had entered the new world of changed qualifications for teacher education , and the negotiation of validation by a university which they knew or the CNAA which they did not . |
| 7 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 8 | We can examine individual finds or groups of them in different ways , depending on how the find was made , the area in which it occurred or the problem on which it might throw light . |