Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus to claim that Atlantis actually existed , or that Achilles actually existed , is not to ascribe the property of existence to Atlantis or Achilles qua objects of thought , but simply to claim that the world contained Atlantis or Achilles . |
| 2 | Although we changed its name to corduroy to give it a touch of class , there is no evidence that the French every called it corde du roi or that kings ever wore it . |
| 3 | We could , however , challenge a man who asserted that , as a matter of historical fact , Cortés ( like Quetzalcoatl ) was born of an eagle and a serpent , or that Cortés was ordained to save the world , or that Cortés never died and now bides his time in some underground crypt awaiting a propitious moment to return and proclaim his sovereignty over Mexico . |
| 4 | A will have the statutory power of arrest it B was in fact attempting to steal something in the shed , or if A reasonably suspected him of being in the act of attempting to steal something in the shed . |
| 5 | Certainly it stands comparison with the better-known Haua Fteah cave in North Africa , which hunters and gatherers occupied from about 75000 years ago and where shellfish also played an important part in the people 's economy . |
| 6 | Reckless driving , contrary to section 2 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 , is committed where D 's driving creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person or of doing substantial damage to property , and where D either saw the risk or failed to give any thought to the risk . |
| 7 | It was written rapidly ( and compulsively ) in early 1914 , in an attic room in Selsfield House with some resemblance to his own study bedroom at 61 Shelgate Road where his writing began and where Helen later gave birth to his son . |
| 8 | MacArthur thought Louis Johnson was the real obstacle and that Bradley simply conveyed the attitude of the Secretary of Defense . |
| 9 | I leaned that my soil was too heavy to grow decent carrots or beetroot and that parsnips always forked because , although the soil was deep and good , the amount of stones could be only marginally reduced at each forking over . |
| 10 | But Minch had often told him that faith in Callanish waxed and waned through time as the wind itself changes through the day , and that eagles often forgot it , and wanted to forget . |
| 11 | For years , researchers assumed that these preferences were learned , and that men simply thought it was more manly to choose meat over ‘ wimpy ’ treats such as cream cakes and pastries . |
| 12 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 13 | All Girls under twenty-one had to get written permission from their parents and although fathers still tended to be against the idea , no one appeared to have committed forgery . |
| 14 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |
| 15 | Although the first issue for 1858 welcomed the Nazimov Rescript with a banner headline , and although Herzen freely acknowledged that Alexander II had earned his place in history by setting the process of emancipation in train , by May 1858 The Bell had restarted its pressure for emancipation with land and soon it was insisting that much remained to be done before the process of reform bore fruit . |
| 16 | Anne did not allow her new interest in world affairs to interfere with her enjoyment of life , however , and although John never asked her out many other young men did . |
| 17 | Scudamore said afterwards that the Leopardstown run was his best ever regarding his jumping , and although Chatam later flopped in the Cheltenham Gold Cup won by Jodami he was never going on the fast ground and the slower pace of the National should suit him . |
| 18 | And if peptides really did code for memories , should there not be many more of them in the brain than one actually finds ? |
| 19 | There 's a grungy , thrash band playing upstairs , who get the approval of the reggae crew , and if Zoë suddenly came over the speakers , then people would probably wave their arms in the air . |
| 20 | Lying there at seven o'clock in the morning , suddenly wide awake , as was her manner , it seemed to her quite obvious that she and Charles should get divorced : it had surely long been inevitable , and if Charles really wanted to marry that woman ( or had he perhaps been joking ? — no , perhaps not ) , well then , let him . |
| 21 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |
| 22 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
| 23 | The story of the Lionheart 's narrow escape was told by William Marshal himself and since William never suffered from modesty it may have been improved in the telling . |
| 24 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 25 | She knew she had nothing to feel guilty about despite her attraction to Luke , having resisted him , but his relationship with Cavell was none of her business really , and whether Luke finally confessed that he had intended to be unfaithful or Cavell discovered it for herself , she did n't want to have to feel responsible for any eventual break-up . |
| 26 | Occasionally she stayed the night in the boiler room , and when Minton suddenly began exploding with wit , it was sometimes she who best engaged him in repartee . |
| 27 | He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do . |
| 28 | Their mobile phone link had failed after just one call , and when darkness finally fell , they were no longer able to signal that they were well . |
| 29 | Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel . |
| 30 | ‘ Show Señor Mitchell to his room , ’ Felipe de Santis ordered and when Maggie too turned to the door he detained her . |