Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give credit card details , say ‘ please debit my card accordingly ’ , state whether you want it posted or if youll collect it on the day , and finally give your voice number for them to call ‘ if there are any problems ’ . |
| 2 | Give credit card details , say ‘ please debit my card accordingly ’ , state whether you want it posted or if youll collect it on the day , and finally give your voice number for them to call ‘ if there are any problems ’ . |
| 3 | We made one together , one each in step by step so we showed 'em what to do and then if you were n't sure you asked or if he was n't doing it right so they did it together technical erm situation . |
| 4 | Nor is it known how such circumstances arose or whether the balances are individually or cumulatively material in relation to the company 's accounts . |
| 5 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 6 | No-one knew what anything cost or whether they were keeping within their budget . |
| 7 | It transpired that whilst setting the Corsair 's electrically-operated rudder trim for take-off , it stuck in the full right position . |
| 8 | Eight resolutions were put before the Congress , the most crucial being the first two which proposed that since education of deaf children by the proven Oral Method was far superior , the use of sign language in education should no longer be used . |
| 9 | Nick , by this time leading a glamorous social life in England with his girlfriend Arabella ( Ari ) Campbell MacNair-Wilson , daughter of a Conservative Member of Parliament , proposed that since nobody wanted a purely business party for journalists and other promotional appendages , each of the children should invite their own friends . |
| 10 | Lee gave him a shove , there was some pushing and tripping up , Kevin fell over into Dean 's lap and a woman at the other end of the car shouted that if they did n't behave themselves she 'd find someone at Goldhawk Road who would make them . |
| 11 | Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 12 | Although we were suitably impressed by the mere twelve-footer caught in Likangloe , the hunters promised that before we left they would take us into what was known locally as the " Death Cave " to find the really big pythons . |
| 13 | They promised that if their cathedral came through unscathed , they would dedicate a window in gratitude to the Royal Air Force . |
| 14 | Throckmorton also claimed that Sir Thomas More [ q.v. ] had once sent for him and promised that if he continued ‘ in the same way ’ and was not afraid , he would ‘ deserve great reward from God ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Kinnock promised that if Labour come to power , all that will change . |
| 16 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 17 | At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion . |
| 18 | Wright ( 1978 ) demonstrated that if we interpret the working class to mean manual workers who lack property in the means of production and are exploited ( have surplus value extracted from them ) , then only a fifth of the contemporary USA population fits the definition ! |
| 19 | In 1977 , J. Ekstrand demonstrated that when a healthy adult male weighing 60 kg swallowed 10 milligrams of fluoride , the levels of ionic fluoride in his blood peaked after about an hour to just over 0–4 ppm per kg of body weight ( European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology , vol 12 , p 311 ) . |
| 20 | That if that 's an old fashioned design , I mean we designed that as being something that his granny might have had . |
| 21 | Daedalus mused that if the metal was not uniformly heated , upwelling convection cells would form within it . |
| 22 | strait talking Mark Knopfler Talking to Dire Straits ' frontman backstage at one of the band 's £150,000 per day tour dates , Bob Hewitt mused that when Guitaristlast spoke to Mr.Knopfler six years ago , further outings on the scale of ‘ Brothers In Arms ’ seemed unthinkable . |
| 23 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 24 | Deborah maintained that if the company wished to keep hold of its original and still loyal customers , now in the thirty-plus age bracket , and looking for more elegant attire , it had a lot of ground to make up . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State maintained that because of section 82 the applicant was not entitled to a statutory redundancy payment . |
| 26 | in the local press joked that if he had done all the write-up said then he must have joined the police when he , was about 7 ! |
| 27 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 28 | You joked that as you kissed me deeply you could taste the tang of my lunchtime Cumberland sausage . |
| 29 | I 've moved that , I moved that so he did n't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail . |
| 30 | She very much doubted that when she got home , if she ever did , she would think it worth asking her mother . |