Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never actually took the stuff or got his hands dirty in any way . ’ |
| 2 | I could have navigated to In Salah , regardless of the piste , unless I stepped on a cobra or got my throat cut , but it was no use getting there alone . |
| 3 | The otter either heard me or got my scent , because it suddenly looked up , then stood up and moved out of sight round the other side of the rock . |
| 4 | Mrs Prynn left her to get on with her duties without any unusual comments ; Lady Roscarrock appeared to be her normal self , and the aunts and sisters dozed in their chairs or whispered their rosaries in much the normal way . |
| 5 | She had thought she was in love with Giles , but he had never aroused this heady excitement in her , or made her skin tingle when he came anywhere near . |
| 6 | She has a very strong sense of duty and a great capacity for making relationships , and so far , by some miracle , perhaps because of the very close bond between her and her mother , her experience does not seem to have coarsened her or made her cynical . |
| 7 | None , not even literary men of distinction in their own right , like E. M. Forster , Ronald Duncan and William Polmer , showed him the way or disputed his paramountcy . |
| 8 | Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane . |
| 9 | Think of all the times I have n't come across my next-door neighbours on holiday in Innsbruck , or met my dentist while eating a cream meringue … more coffee ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Instead of making a painting which interpreted an object or depicted its content ’ , he recalls , ‘ I found an object and ‘ presented ’ it just as it was ’ . |
| 11 | Since the noises in the House of Commons in 1927 and 1928 , the bishops sanctioned or winked their eyes at various modifications which were sensible and did not mind that they were illegal . |
| 12 | One of the implications of the Kentish monopoly of certain materials and sources is that other areas must have been either dependent on the Kentish elite for such goods , or sought their own exotic goods by making contacts with elites elsewhere , that is , entering into an entirely different network . |
| 13 | In the larger establishments there were restaurants , theatre , gardens and fountains , a sports stadium , rest rooms and large halls where poets and philosophers exchanged views and authors gave lectures or read their latest works . |
| 14 | Go back to where you came from , Lissa Holbrook , or read your destiny in spilt wine . |
| 15 | This is the time to test out the telephone support system ( or read our Fax Box ) . |
| 16 | The cable is fitted with a two-pin plug , the card has four connector pins — make your second call to the technical support service ( or read our Fax Box ) . |
| 17 | In cultures the world over , women ( and in many cultures , men too ) have made their skin silky by bathing in oils , scented themselves with delicious perfumes , draped themselves in satin , velvet , silk and feathers , braided , brushed or oiled their hair , painted their lips and darkened their eyes and weighted themselves with gold and silver , or heavy ornaments . |
| 18 | Another pointer in favour of Wimbledon and West Ham was that the clubs had already taken action or announced their intention to take action against certain players involved in the incident . |
| 19 | Their seniors attended Thorfinn , moving in rotation , so that he always had Osbern or Ansfred his son or Baldric or Hugh de Riveire or Flodwig or Salomon of the Val de Saire or some combination of these in his company , as was the rule with his mormaers and their leading men . |
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| 21 | Most reports of this incident underlined Mrs White 's loss , or used her son as a metaphor for the ‘ death of hope ’ in a precinct riddled with drugs . |
| 22 | Have I in any respect misused the resources which Thou gavest me , or used my senses to no purpose , or my preconceptions ? |
| 23 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 24 | The restoration of the monarchy and its patronage proved a particularly valuable source of wealth and position to those who had remained faithful or changed their allegiance with a careful eye to the future . |
| 25 | When have you ever compromised or changed your plans , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | At no time was this " advantage " more glaring than when putting-out capitalists contracted or suspended their activities in rural manufacturing districts , throwing workers on to the parishes . |
| 27 | This has often treated technology as an end in itself , and not queried its wider relationship to firm activity or weighed its contribution to performance . |
| 28 | Please do not rely on the fact that you have previously received information about ESPRIT CIME or entered your details on a previous database . |
| 29 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 30 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |