Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over 13 years these good people have advised me or acted in my name and your service . |
| 2 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 3 | It 's too easy to tell a child not to make a fuss , it 's a big playground and to go and play away from whoever has hit them or kicked them or fallen out with them . |
| 4 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 5 | A Warlord is an Orc who has established total supremacy over his rivals ( having either killed them or driven them away ) and now leads all the tribes in glorious conquest over other puny races such as Men , Elves and Dwarfs ( Orcs call Elves skinnies and Dwarfs stunties ) . |
| 6 | Instead … each student has become the owner of a collection of statements made by somebody else ( who had either created them or taken them over from another source ) . |
| 7 | Funnily enough though there are there are feminist women who are who are saying similar things that saying that it is a bit irresponsible to have gotten into bed with someone and taken all your clothes off and then say no . |
| 8 | We formed a group among ourselves and used to meet and play through the works that were being performed at the opera that next day — two pianos , four pianists , some singers , a small chorus . |
| 9 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 10 | Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions . |
| 11 | Her eyes shot to his and encountered a fire that held her mesmerised and sent a shiver down her spine . |
| 12 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 13 | Or what 's that word that Lizzie — 'er as married my grandson — ‘ as picked up ? |
| 14 | 40 major London road schemes abandoned ; ‘ Important to commit ourselves as opposed to roads ’ |
| 15 | We like to see ourselves as born mavericks and fixers . |
| 16 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 17 | It seems to me that given that you have a southern bypass , there could be an argument for saying , if we had a northern inner relief road , that northern inner relief road together with a southern bypass , could perform some of the functions of the western relief road . |
| 18 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 19 | In the extraordinary procedure , however , the magistrate either dealt with the case himself or appointed a deputy ( iudex pedaneus ) . |
| 20 | So a rich peasant will be able to keep all of the land he was working himself , all the land he was working by hired labour and land that he hired , er that he rented out as long as the amount he , he rented out did not exceed all of the land that he worked himself or used hired labour . |
| 21 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 22 | Your class numbers are required , please send details of number of classes and numbers in class ; plus details of classes which although advertised did not actually start . |
| 23 | This work , however , only really came to fruition in Engels 's famous book The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , a book which although written after Marx 's death was extensively based on his notes . |
| 24 | The city was dominated by material problems like unemployment and housing , which although related to the issue of discrimination , were more obviously tackled by campaigns that focused on the issues themselves . |
| 25 | The extra work is needed to cope with demand for its new Rover 800 saloon , which although launched just a year ago is hammering opposition in the executive market . |
| 26 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 27 | These rules were subsequently amended by the CMI , which although affiliated with the ILA acted as an independent entity . |
| 28 | He had also been a talented professional wrestler in his youth ( i.e. a good actor ) and still gave the impression that he could look after himself if pushed around . |
| 29 | If this was the case the caveman 's body would need to be ready to run away very quickly , or enable him to try to defend himself if caught by the tiger . |
| 30 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |