Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So , being unused , they progressively deteriorated and caved in and the entrances filled in or became overgrown with vegetation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 6 | ‘ Or got eased out by me , to put it bluntly . |
| 7 | They plunged into lakes , crashed into busses , flipped over like turtles or got jammed between lampposts . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If a relative has to travel abroad to accompany a sick or injured Insured Person home and the additional expenses claim includes the Travel Insurance premium of that relative , this may be accepted as part of the Travel and Accommodation Expenses . |
| 12 | which slipped when water-logged , or came undone |
| 13 | Both literary and non-literary writing will often develop from the interaction between the pupils ' own insights and what they have read ( or heard read ) in the classroom . |
| 14 | Polybius explains in Book 3 why he proposes to extend his exposition to cover the next twenty years by saying : " Since judgements regarding either victors or vanquished based purely on the actual struggles are not final … |
| 15 | It was perhaps even worse when public servants were or felt constrained to file affidavits which demonstrated a political purpose . |
| 16 | How much more practically , efficiently and profitably those reserves could be utilized and exploited if the raw materials and the areas in which they were located or lay buried were systematically explored , charted , surveyed , investigated and catalogued . |
| 17 | They rested on elbows , or lay stretched like Stars , stomachs in sand , smooth heads together , a brown hand lifting a white cigarette to a rose-painted mouth , and a line of malachite green smoke going up into the air , which was not here the intense cobalt of the plain of Orange , but pearl-cream-gold , a heavy air , soft and undulating like the pale sand and beyond it the warm , hazed , sand-green sea . |
| 18 | No pearly raindrops dripped from the gutters or lay trapped in the hollows of the leaves . |
| 19 | Similarly , the human being , right handed or left handed , but because he is one or the other , is not perfectly symmetrical . |
| 20 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 21 | A mechanical wound to the cotyledon ( lines 4–6 ) led to a systemic accumulation of pin activity and levels of this activity were identical whether the cotyledon was excised five minutes after wounding or left attached to the plant for 48 hours . |
| 22 | Steady-state levels of pin 2 mRNA were identical whether the cotyledon was excised 5min after wounding ( Fig. 3 D ) or left attached to the plant for 4 hours ( Fig. 3 E ) and are comparable to those observed in other studies of wound-inducible pin mRNA levels . |
| 23 | Equivalent and high levels of pin activity and pin transcripts were found in the systemically responding leaf 1 , whether the wounded cotyledon was excised rapidly or left attached to the plant . |
| 24 | Or left undone ? |
| 25 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 26 | Political-economic analysis could help professional economists both by providing a critique of their ideology , and also in assessing what is feasible , who will benefit and lose from their policies , what will tend to be done or left undone in the project and so on . |
| 27 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 28 | The most significant attitudes are those which either involve , or consist in , the kind of serious wishes that certain things should be done or left undone , which , in appropriate circumstances , will produce actual actions directed to that end . |
| 29 | was due wholly to anything done or left undone by another person , not being a servant or agent of the owner , with intent to do damage or |
| 30 | Summer ‘ 91 , I had just retired and I was so looking forward to it when , one week ‘ into it ’ , told us that she & had parted company . |