Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 2 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 3 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 4 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 5 | So you actually became dependant on the tranquillizers did you or or or you simply had |
| 6 | In America that either means you made it , or you just got off the boat . |
| 7 | T.V. is relatively difficult to get onto , in terms of you taking the initiatives , you contact the B B C or I T V and say , ‘ I have a thing which you ought to have , ’ and unless it 's really outstanding , the chances are relatively small of getting on unless you are very lucky or you know somebody or you just hit the right spot at the right time . |
| 8 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 9 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 10 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 11 | The stock editor generally concentrated on stock revision and supervision of withdrawals , but in some authorities he or she also played a large part in the selection of new books . |
| 12 | He or she also settled expenses incurred since the deceased 's death , such as the cost of the funeral . |
| 13 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
| 14 | The burden of proof lies on the defendant , who may be convicted even though he or she honestly believed , on reasonable grounds , that what was published was true and a matter of public interest . |
| 15 | Only one visitor failed to say where he or she normally lived . |
| 16 | Mr Wakerley suggested Miss Dart might have tried to escape , or she may have screamed , or she possibly saw Sams undisguised and had to be killed . |
| 17 | To perform the court 's order could require the doctor to act in a manner which he or she genuinely believed not to be in the patient 's best interests ; to fail to treat the child as ordered would amount to a contempt of court . |
| 18 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 19 | The individual will work less and give more hours to leisure , but this is not what he or she originally wished to do , and his or her satisfaction or welfare is thus reduced . |
| 20 | Britain acquired large parts of North America ( until the independence of the USA in 1776 ) , the West Indies , the West African coast , and the Indian sub-continent and this was partly a cause , partly a reinforcement of industrial growth : ‘ We were , or we increasingly became , the agency of economic interchange between the advanced and the backward , the industrial and the primary-producing , the metropolitan and the colonial or quasi-colonial regions of the world ’ ( Hobsbawm , 1969 , 14 ) . |
| 21 | or they just did n't bother to fish him out . |
| 22 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 23 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 24 | But no mention of two-way radios appears anywhere in the official report , so either the police concealed the details from the inquiry or they never existed . |
| 25 | " Or they maybe knocked the horn buds on the sides of the bucket . |
| 26 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 27 | Erm so whether you think of it as the point is now whizzing round infinitely quickly , or it just stopped , |
| 28 | He came back , and when he found the place locked up again , he got a scare , or he just decided to play it safe , and made off . ’ |
| 29 | But under the Criminal Law Act 1967 anyone can arrest on reasonable suspicion of an arrestable offence , save that where the arrest is by a private person ( as here ) he must show either ( 1 ) that the arrested person was in fact in the act of committing the offence for which he was arrested , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person to be in the act of committing it , or ( 2 ) the arrested person had in fact committed the offence , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person of having committed the offence and ( in this last case ) the offence had in fact been committed by someone . |
| 30 | But under the Criminal Law Act 1967 anyone can arrest on reasonable suspicion of an arrestable offence , save that where the arrest is by a private person ( as here ) he must show either ( 1 ) that the arrested person was in fact in the act of committing the offence for which he was arrested , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person to be in the act of committing it , or ( 2 ) the arrested person had in fact committed the offence , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person of having committed the offence and ( in this last case ) the offence had in fact been committed by someone . |