Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became tiring , so I called a halt and suggested that Eddy , who was taller than I , should be the next horse — or did we use the word ‘ donkey ’ ? |
| 2 | Or did we have a reader ? |
| 3 | Or did they choose a kind of evening do you know ? or did it not matter ? |
| 4 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 5 | Or did he carry a length of picture cord in his pocket ? |
| 6 | ‘ Or did he want a couple with the same number of children as he had ? |
| 7 | Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ? |
| 8 | Or did he leave the court without speaking ? ’ |
| 9 | Did he pause to note the whole lot , or did he have extraordinary recall , writing in his room late at night or next morning , or did he get the bones down on paper , and afterwards flesh out the rest with Johnson 's consultations ? |
| 10 | Was it my imagination , or did he look a little like the picture of Lord Carteron ? |
| 11 | Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ? |
| 12 | or did it mean a few more ‘ Hail Marys ’ |
| 13 | It is hard to judge how much weight should be given to such utterances ; was the designation ‘ northerner ’ intended to be purely geographical and descriptive , or did it reflect a feeling that these were men almost of a different race ? |
| 14 | ) Or did it reveal a conservative attitude at the heart of a movie that is dressed up in hippie garb ? |
| 15 | Was it purely physical or did it have a psychosomatic dimension , as her sudden and dramatic recovery could indicate ? |
| 16 | Or did I put a picture or ten ? |
| 17 | Tell me was I dreaming or did I see a sketch on T V where there 's a car driving round , down the road being chased by the police and the driver said to the passenger er here take this and he says what 's that for and he says it 's to steer the car , presses a button and the car splits |
| 18 | Or did I get the answer wrong ? |
| 19 | ‘ You just slope off , or did you get a lumber ? ’ |
| 20 | Or did you buy a bit ? |
| 21 | Did you rehearse the music in the studio or did you learn the songs outside ? |
| 22 | And were you alone in the cart when you were going round about or did you have a boy with you ? |
| 23 | We did n't see the Seychelles scops owl , which is nocturnal and usually only seen if a tape-recording is played at night , nor did we get the little Seychelles white-eye , but I am not concerned . |
| 24 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 25 | Nor did we have a talk beforehand because he was on the stage doing a turn with somebody else — I think they call it a warm-up . |
| 26 | First , in the brief sketch of the early history of radar in the United Kingdom , the earliest work on the detection of aircraft was done not at Bawdsey but at Orford ; Bowen 's middle name was not Gordon , but George ; and as a member of the Airborne Radar Group , I can assure the author that Bowen did not develop airborne radar ‘ single handedly ’ , nor did we develop the plan-position indicator . |
| 27 | Nor did everyone see the need for an update on current classroom practice . |
| 28 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 29 | Run by the parishes or by groups of parishes , workhouses never produced an output which even repaid the purchase of raw materials , nor did they meet the vaunted secondary objective of training the poor in the " habits of industry " . |
| 30 | Nor did they want a vast editorial board . |