Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | People offered to raise whatever sum of money needed to keep the Community Radio Station on the air ; even those who never cared or listened much , now felt that 1OAB must be preserved ! |
| 32 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 33 | They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring . |
| 34 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 35 | The second impression is less tangible — the curious feeling you get when you realize that those books on the shelves are Manzoni 's books , the ones he read or consulted . |
| 36 | The friends of Montrose who supported the various candidates were very troublesome , for political management required careful and friendly replies , and it was clear that they could not all be given the answers they expected or hoped to receive . |
| 37 | " So am I. It was the last thing I expected or wanted to happen . " |
| 38 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 39 | You succeeded or failed . |
| 40 | Criteria were divided between two types : primary ( child care ) criteria which concentrated on assessing familial circumstances likely to pertain if a child were to remain at home ; and secondary ( disclosure ) criteria which either substantiated or refuted children 's and young people 's disclosures . |
| 41 | In the afternoons we either rode or tried to shoot birds with our air rifles . |
| 42 | Bricks should be sealed with a masonry stabiliser , while wood should be waxed , varnished or painted . |
| 43 | Confusion peaked with the arrival of the rescue teams but they led or carried the survivors to the relative peace of the sick-bay . |
| 44 | I am more than happy to pay tribute to those gallant and courageous civil servants who led or followed my hon. Friend on that exciting detour on the continent . |
| 45 | Note here whether any general types of grammatical construction are used to special effect ; eg comparative or superlative constructions ; coordinative or listing constructions ; parenthetical constructions ; appended or interpolated structures such as occur in casual speech . |
| 46 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 47 | When seen the next morning in hospital , Pamela said she had not cared whether she lived or died when she took the overdose , but had hoped that it would show her parents how upset she was feeling about her school work , and that it might also persuade them to change their attitudes to her boyfriend . |
| 48 | Nobody cared if she lived or died . |
| 49 | It seemed from where I sat that she was in trouble whether Mahoney lived or died . |
| 50 | She never asked Melanie to come and listen to them and , on these occasions , Melanie , alone with the live dog and the painted one in the kitchen , felt that nobody in all the world cared whether she lived or died . |
| 51 | After all this time , when you did n't care whether you lived or died ? |
| 52 | Did n't give a shit whether I lived or died . ’ |
| 53 | And people lived or died by their ability to , to produce a competent result at the end of the day . |
| 54 | Despite her outrage and hurt , Isabel knew she did care if fitzAlan lived or died . |
| 55 | Later in this interlude he meets Saul , who tells him it 's irrelevant whether he lived or died : the point is that the myth continues . |
| 56 | Although she had run out of steam and no longer cared whether she lived or died , there was no way she was going to give up . |
| 57 | For a long while I thought it did n't matter if I lived or died , but you 've changed all that . |
| 58 | No-one gritted or jutted better than Hanif Mohammad . |
| 59 | No bones gritted or grated , even though his ankles now felt miserably weak , it was just that his muscles would n't firm up enough to keep him straight . |
| 60 | If she asked or noticed it , he would blame it on the college refusal . |