Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Forgive 'N Forget started at 7–2 , with Combs Ditch 9–2 , Run And Skip 15–2 and Wayward lad 8–1 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So , being unused , they progressively deteriorated and caved in and the entrances filled in or became overgrown with vegetation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To Bustin , paint is alive , like skin , ‘ it can be peeled back , or remain covered . |
| 8 | To Bustin , paint is alive , like skin , ‘ it can be peeled back , or remain covered . |
| 9 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 10 | ‘ Or got eased out by me , to put it bluntly . |
| 11 | They plunged into lakes , crashed into busses , flipped over like turtles or got jammed between lampposts . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's a pretty bizarre film , but it 's not dark or mean spirited in its intentions . |
| 16 | Enemas or douches done by yourself and not done before or after vaginal or anal intercourse . |
| 17 | Fraud is defined in the New Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus as ‘ deliberate deception , trickery , or cheating intended to gain an advantage . ’ |
| 18 | Once the work was hung I wanted it to occupy the space comfortably without dwarfing the area or appearing lost . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This point means that the stop line has been obliterated by mud , snow or rain etc. or has worn away . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Even with a common core curriculum , there will be enormous and perfectly explicable differences between children 's knowledge and abilities at these ages ( as anyone who has had more than one child of his own , or has taught a class of children will know ) . |
| 30 | ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or |