Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 2 | Finer I never saw or tasted from Barbados or better cured . |
| 3 | All contributions should be framed or mounted on board and deposited with Jill Morgan at the Rochdale Art Gallery from Saturday 12 October 1991 . |
| 4 | ‘ Incremental ’ causes transfer of only that data which has been modified or added to LIFESPAN since data of that same type was last transferred . |
| 5 | Known as ‘ the little onion ’ , this herb is best used raw in salad dressings , or added to dips and sauces , or to flavour savoury butter and egg dishes . |
| 6 | Fire doors and shutters must not be blocked or prevented from opening and sprinklers or fire detection devices must be kept clear and unobstructed . |
| 7 | Schedule 1 includes references to certain specified sums paid out or received by Abbey or Wessex , some of the moneys said to be ‘ in respect of charges which were not due and/or were inflated . |
| 8 | Propaganda films from the first years of the Soviet system show enthusiastic crowds , and sometimes , in the background , weeping elderly women , watching the officially sanctioned looting of churches , which were then demolished or turned into granaries or museums of ‘ scientific atheism ’ . |
| 9 | The dock is provided with end gates which may be opened and closed for admission and egress of the vessel by a rising and falling sliding or pivotal motion in a vertical plane or swung on hinges as ordinary lock gates , suitable grooves or chambers being provided for the gates to work in a suitable means of making a water-tight closure being provided . |
| 10 | Some of these developed into villages , others remained the same , yet others disappeared or shrank to farmsteads or even smaller hamlets . |
| 11 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 12 | Koster came in to direct , cut the budget to six million dollars , and either passed over Olivier for Burton ( whom he admired ) or went for Burton after Olivier turned it down . |
| 13 | We can reveal that ministers will come under increasing pressure from a range of new research on the plight of elderly people , who are widely beaten , tormented or robbed by relatives or carers . |
| 14 | INNOCENT RELATIVES Newspapers should avoid identifying relatives of persons convicted or accused of crime unless the reference to them is directly relevant to the matter reported . |
| 15 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 16 | Baxter was a man who could not be bought with a bribe or silenced by threats or prison . |
| 17 | Or stood in despair as your children big or little , carry on ignoring your repeated demands that they stop whatever undesirable thing it is that they are doing ? |
| 18 | No-one walked the corridors or stood in queues and the Headmaster almost seemed friendly , if this is possible to believe . |
| 19 | And so Inchbad sat down and beamed at Fenella and said they would be interested to hear her stories and , at the same time , nodded to the waiting Fiachra Broadcrown to get the Fidchell squares ready for the Gnomes . |
| 20 | The government refused to concede one and counterattacked with assertions that the Police Complaints Board and civil courts are open to anyone with a genuine experience of improper treatment . |
| 21 | At the end of the street he had the option of turning left , into the town , or right , along the road which skirted the shore and led to Moorgate and the hill to Albert Tarace . |
| 22 | The introductions last year of massively parallel machines by the likes of Intel Corp , Thinking Machines Corp opened up the parallel market and led to forecasts that they would eventually replace the vector machines first developed by Seymour Cray , who did his pioneering work at the then Control Data Corp before moving on to found Cray Research Inc and then Cray Computer Corp . |
| 23 | The announcement immediately heightened the political tension in the country and led to speculation that Cristiani 's stance now reflected the views of extreme right-wing elements in the army and in his own Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) party . |
| 24 | It will come as no surprise to discover , then , that Spencer was highly critical of statutory intervention , arguing that it stifled liberty and led to rigidity and uniformity : ‘ Society , a living growing organism , placed within apparatuses of dead , rigid , mechanical formulas , can not fail to be hampered and pinched . ’ |
| 25 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 26 | Another letter from the middle school was about a visiting theatre group and asked for money as well as a tear-off slip . |
| 27 | If we had wanted that we would have used medical questionnaires to evaluate physical and mental health , listed the facilities and defects in each house , and asked for income and expenditure budgets . |
| 28 | Just to say that erm we 're very keen to see that the Mid Sussex Council has come to the county and asked for guidance and I 'm very pleased also with the response that is er proposed back to them . |
| 29 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 30 | He started to speak but Jorge came in and asked about dinner and Maggie slipped out . |