Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ . |
| 2 | Here Forgive 'N Forget made a mistake and handed the initiative to Wayward Lad , but he was very tired and started to wander to the left towards the rails . |
| 3 | Forgive 'N Forget started at 7–2 , with Combs Ditch 9–2 , Run And Skip 15–2 and Wayward lad 8–1 . |
| 4 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 5 | No description of the ammonoids is complete without mentioning the heteromorphs These are forms which abandoned the usual plane spiral mode of coiling , and instead became partially or even completely uncoiled , or became twisted in some other fashion . |
| 6 | So , being unused , they progressively deteriorated and caved in and the entrances filled in or became overgrown with vegetation . |
| 7 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 8 | To Bustin , paint is alive , like skin , ‘ it can be peeled back , or remain covered . |
| 9 | To Bustin , paint is alive , like skin , ‘ it can be peeled back , or remain covered . |
| 10 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 11 | ‘ Or got eased out by me , to put it bluntly . |
| 12 | They plunged into lakes , crashed into busses , flipped over like turtles or got jammed between lampposts . |
| 13 | Most of the gas in that cloud went to form the sun or got blown away , but a small amount of the heavier elements collected together to form the bodies that now orbit the sun as planets like the earth . |
| 14 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 15 | Paige was glad of her strong boots , but she would gladly have thrown her bag away , for it either kept falling off or got caught on stray branches . |
| 16 | It 's a pretty bizarre film , but it 's not dark or mean spirited in its intentions . |
| 17 | Enemas or douches done by yourself and not done before or after vaginal or anal intercourse . |
| 18 | Thus , the majority of this group had not reached the point of their heroin career where becoming known is most likely and so were less likely to show up in crime statistics , medical records , and so on , than longer-term users . |
| 19 | Fraud is defined in the New Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus as ‘ deliberate deception , trickery , or cheating intended to gain an advantage . ’ |
| 20 | Once the work was hung I wanted it to occupy the space comfortably without dwarfing the area or appearing lost . |
| 21 | So when the male of such a species approaches a female hanging , large and menacing , on her web , or lurking hidden beside it , he signals to her by twanging the threads at one side in a special and meaningful way which he trusts the female will recognise . |
| 22 | 8.2 A member of staff who has been assaulted or has received a threat of violence in the course of employment must report the incident to their line manager as soon as is practicable . |
| 23 | A litigant who seeks redress for a public law wrong in a private action must establish , in order to have standing , that the public law wrong has invaded some legal right of his or hers , recognized in private law , or has caused him or her some special damage . |
| 24 | For Israel 's way to be hidden Yahweh could mean that God can not see Israel 's way , or will not see Israel 's way , or has caused Israel not to be able to see its own way . |
| 25 | ( a ) a director or member of the body is or has been a director or member of a recognised body which has been the subject of an order or direction under paragraphs 18 or 21 of Schedule 2 to the Act or the recognition of which has been revoked under Rule 10 of these Rules or has expired under Rule 9 of these Rules ; or |
| 26 | Also , I mean one of the things that the Council is considering doing , I mean this interest , I know that other people from around this area come into Harlow , one of the things that the Council 's thinking about is erm , is charging , or has debated , charging different rates for people who are coming in than , than those who live here . |
| 27 | When a pet cat has started scratching the fabric of a valuable chair , for example , or has begun to make messes on an expensive carpet , it would be helpful to be able to sprinkle or smear some hated odour there to keep the animal away . |
| 28 | This point means that the stop line has been obliterated by mud , snow or rain etc. or has worn away . |
| 29 | War has frequently brought new nations into existence , as did the American War of Independence and many other wars fought for national liberation or unification , both earlier and later , or has destroyed old political systems ; and defeat in war has sometimes created conditions favourable to a successful internal revolution , as in Russia in 1917 , or to the emergence of independent nations from an imperial system , as in the Habsburg Empire in 1918 . |
| 30 | In contrast , if a wife has had her sixtieth birthday but her husband has not yet reached 65 ( or has decided to defer his retirement ) , she must wait until her husband retires to receive her share of the married couple 's pension . |