Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal information about us , once typed on record cards or stuffed into filing cabinets is now kept on computer , information which once even the bank manager or doctor could n't find is now accessible to thousands through a computer keyboard , and everyday this information is routinely sold , to employers investigating potential and current employees , to companies investigating competitors and customers , and to anyone willing to pay in a trade which grows , uncontrolled , daily . |
| 2 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point means that the pedestrian tried or succeeded in walking across the carriageway i.e. from footpath to footpath or along the carriageway in the same direction as the traffic flow . |
| 3 | Now John was not afraid to tell somebody as great as John that he was wrong and I see no reason why this general assembly should be afraid or inhibited about telling the authorities that they are wrong . |
| 4 | Avon and Somerset Police , concerned by the growing number of officers taking sick leave due to back trouble , discovered in the survey that 15 per cent of the ricked backs were caused or aggravated by sitting in police vans and personnel carriers . |
| 5 | You may browse in the shops without being shadowed or prodded into buying . |
| 6 | Therefore , a workshop in the context of education is envisaged as a place where ideas are exchanged and new concepts and principles are introduced so that they can be discussed , accepted , or rejected by thinking learners . |
| 7 | The range of packs can be changed or added to according to demand . |
| 8 | The Minister may be surprised into revealing more than he intended or reduced to admitting he does not know the answer or even misleading the House . |
| 9 | Civilised men , possessed of considerable intellect , as he was , could generally control their lust and even deny it when it was felt in response to a woman who was either despised or prevented from reciprocating for a variety of reasons , but they could not always control their emotions . |
| 10 | 10.1 If either you or we are delayed or prevented from performing our obligations under this order , by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of either of us , ( including without limitation any form of government intervention , strikes and lock-outs relevant to this order , breakdown of plant or delays by sub-contractors concerned ) such performance shall be suspended , and if it can not be completed within a reasonable time after the due date as specified in this order , this order may be cancelled by either party . |
| 11 | It is generally accepted that most of this is , of necessity , spent rather than saved , and hence the consumption of household goods is either increased or prevented from falling . |
| 12 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 13 | The challenge which this fate represents to a child , born deaf or deafened before learning language , is equally difficult to grasp . |
| 14 | I hated it when he bribed rather than tipped , left without saying goodbye or arrived without saying hello , all perfectly acceptable in his world , but not in mine . |
| 15 | 12.1 Any notice , document or request falling to be given or served under this Agreement may be given or served by sending it by registered post or certified mail , postage pre-paid , or by tested telex or facsimile transmission to : in the case of |
| 16 | A number of other well-known government critics fled abroad or went into hiding . |
| 17 | The Arab League Secretary-General , Chedli Klibi ( Tunisia ) , had already resigned on Sept. 3 , over alleged accusations from Saudi Arabia 's Foreign Minister , Prince Saud al Faisal , that he had failed in his mandate to discover why some Arab countries had expressed reservations or abstained from voting during the August Arab emergency summit on Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 18 | It was something she 'd never done before , or dreamt of doing . |
| 19 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 20 | Experiments with a mirror confirm that the meaning of many famous paintings can be inverted or negated by reversing the picture . |
| 21 | Libyans knew of civilians imprisoned , officers hanged or shot for voicing opinions contrary to the regime , and they took care not to expose themselves by expressing hostility or opposition in public . |
| 22 | Great wicker baskets were trundled in and out of their home but she never complained nor spoke of regretting the end of her dancing life . |
| 23 | Charlotte stared at her in utter amazement , for she had never seen — nor dreamt of seeing — her sister-in-law in such a condition . |
| 24 | In PFK September , S. Kyme of Grimsby wrote and asked about sexing and breeding Clown Loach . |
| 25 | Professor Kingsley was called and asked by prosecuting counsel , ‘ Are you just an expert on the word ‘ bollocks ’ ? ’ |
| 26 | Under the law of trusts , however , a request of this kind was significant , and amounted to creating an entitlement in the daughter to seek relief from liability . |
| 27 | He had lost half his command , and failed of winning back Harry for whom he had come . |
| 28 | that he injected Royan with a substance he knew would harm him , in the presence of the press , and failed to given him adequate medical attention . |
| 29 | The door was of oak , buckled with age and studded with rusting iron bolts and bands of steel . |
| 30 | A charm of eight goldfinches hovered and pecked at parachuting thistle seeds and a yellow hammer perched close , wheezing its summer song . |