Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 2 | We do n't want to be murdered , raped , robbed , assaulted , or criminally victimized in any other way . |
| 3 | Its spine was missing , or rather protruded from amongst the leaves like a bulky marker . |
| 4 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 5 | At the age of seven , he was sent away to boarding-school and this event more or less coincided with his father 's remarriage . |
| 6 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 7 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 8 | They had more or less drifted into a relationship , meeting at lectures , having the occasional meal together . |
| 9 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 10 | It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam . |
| 11 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 12 | Very high rates of tariff covering about 7 per cent of goods in the United States and United Kingdom almost disappeared , and the proportion of trade ( excluding agriculture and fuels ) which attracted tariffs of 15 per cent or less rose from 54 per cent to 85 per cent in the USA , from 37 per cent to 85 per cent in the United Kingdom and from 71 per cent to 97 per cent for the EEC . |
| 13 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 14 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 15 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 16 | Of the written words available , the Club 's own records , in particular the minutes , were infuriatingly incomplete , largely impossible to read because of the writing , and either terse about something important or long winded about something trivial . |
| 17 | He had insisted , so the story went , that he knew — and his knowledge was said to be based on information handed down from Choco ancestors long dead but unforgotten — what no one else in Panama knew ( or apparently wanted to ) , and no one in the world of historical scholarship knew either . |
| 18 | Tones can be easily built up and blended , rubbed hard with a plastic rubber or gently stroked onto a grained paper to produce sfumato effects . |
| 19 | A snowflake or so glistened in her black hair . |
| 20 | Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric . |
| 21 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 22 | Another time his father might have laughed or mildly remonstrated about the cruelty of the imitation . |
| 23 | Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses . |
| 24 | I 've climbed or just walked in Range West on many occasions . |
| 25 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 26 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 27 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 28 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 29 | According to figures compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in December 1990 , the number of US citizens who used cocaine once a week or more fell by 23 per cent from 862,000 in 1988 to 662,000 in 1990 . |
| 30 | In 1966/67 and 1973/74 six or more birds wintered in the county , but the autumn and winter of 1974/75 were quite remarkable , with a total of 45–50 birds altogether , of which at least 20 wintered ; 15 or more arrived from the south at Beachy Head on 22 October 1974 . |