Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon we shall be in eternity and then we shall see how little it mattered whether some things got done or not ; however , right now we rush about as if they were all-important . |
| 2 | I think he was an amateur who either thought he 'd succeeded or else was so nervous about what he was doing that he left knowing there had n't been time to kill you . ’ |
| 3 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 4 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 5 | None had guessed the desolation she 'd experienced or how she 'd built a protective screen around her emotions , determined that neither tears nor anger would betray her inner pain . |
| 6 | I did n't want to put the new stuff on top of the old until er knew whether we 'd finished or not , yes I think I 'll have to open it |
| 7 | The rear engine ooh she said the the key 's in Ken 's house and we all sat we did n't know whether to clap or get up and walk out , whether she 'd finished or not ! |
| 8 | A Hoechst spokesman said the fumes were of a concentrated form of sulphuric acid which is irritating to the eyes and throat ; he said it was unclear how much material had leaked or how it had happened . |
| 9 | She put an arm across her eyes and opened them beneath it , seeing him in such a way that he could never be certain whether she had looked or not , naked and hairy and black as she might have imagined , thick-set and arrogant and very ready — that much at least was certain — to take her without any further preamble . |
| 10 | Although Piers Place was the most beautiful house I had owned or ever would own , it always seemed to be in need of structural repairs , there was a large attic floor which we did n't need ourselves and yet were disinclined to furnish for renting out , and the traffic on the main road outside seemed to increase with every year . |
| 11 | THE RALLY started on Sunday , 2 February at 10 am and the freezing cold morning saw many last-minute checks by various crews on all those things they had forgotten or already checked three times . |
| 12 | His parents had not asked him what sort of holiday he had had or how the flight had been . |
| 13 | Whether Saddam Hussein had invaded or not , Kuwait 's days in its present form were numbered anyway , as are the days of all puppet regimes in the Arab World . |
| 14 | Secondly , I think few realized in 1961 just how sizeable the radio audience had become or how rapidly it would expand . |
| 15 | Apart from the military and administrative functions of the town , which included offices for collecting taxes from native and Russian alike , there was the beginning of a perish structure established by Orthodox clergy who had accompanied or soon followed the first government forces . |
| 16 | He could n't tell whether Helen had spoken or not , but her legs forked . |
| 17 | The jurors only had to consider whether the woman had consented or not to the intercourse taking place . |
| 18 | Expensive miss ; costly save , because just 4 minutes later , Derby had hit or rather rolled in the winner ; soft goal it was . |
| 19 | He did n't really understand what had happened or why , but he sensed things would never be quite the same again . |
| 20 | Bourne had come out , unsure whether anything had happened or not . |
| 21 | He had mentioned it to me , in a roundabout sort of way , but I could never work out when it had happened or how old I was when it occurred . |
| 22 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 23 | And the increasing use of charters in lawcourts naturally created an incentive to forge , as those who had lost or never enjoyed documentary proof of their rights strove to make good the deficiency . |
| 24 | When he came along how could you see things had changed or how could you see in the process of changing ? |