Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 2 | The expectations on him to perform as a wit at the Painters ' Table further drained his energy and if feeling jaded or bored he drank a lot . |
| 3 | Or did we have a reader ? |
| 4 | Or did they choose a kind of evening do you know ? or did it not matter ? |
| 5 | Or did he carry a length of picture cord in his pocket ? |
| 6 | ‘ Or did he want a couple with the same number of children as he had ? |
| 7 | It is hard to judge how much weight should be given to such utterances ; was the designation ‘ northerner ’ intended to be purely geographical and descriptive , or did it reflect a feeling that these were men almost of a different race ? |
| 8 | Or did I put a picture or ten ? |
| 9 | Tell me was I dreaming or did I see a sketch on T V where there 's a car driving round , down the road being chased by the police and the driver said to the passenger er here take this and he says what 's that for and he says it 's to steer the car , presses a button and the car splits |
| 10 | ‘ You just slope off , or did you get a lumber ? ’ |
| 11 | Or did you buy a bit ? |
| 12 | And were you alone in the cart when you were going round about or did you have a boy with you ? |
| 13 | Yeah but was she a woman living on her own or had she got a husband ? |
| 14 | Did that commingling of unrelated flavours remind me of another dish , or had it produced a breakthrough in gastronomy ? |
| 15 | Had he imagined it or had he seen a light flickering in the window of the St Manicus chapel ? |
| 16 | Or had he had a predilection for liking young ladies ? |
| 17 | Well , we did n't have much luck out in the open because the rabbits saw or heard or smelt us coming a mile off and bolted down the nearest hole , even though we were mute and trying to stay down wind ( the wind kept switching direction in little gusts ) . |
| 18 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 19 | Les , 61 , whose wife Tracy , 40 , is expecting their first child , has stopped smoking since the health scare that led him to quit a show last year . |
| 20 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 21 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 22 | The result was a whiplash neck that required him to wear a brace between performances and did not heal completely for three years . |
| 23 | He wrote a 30-second piece for a shampoo commercial that enabled him to buy a house in the country . |
| 24 | Nor did we have a talk beforehand because he was on the stage doing a turn with somebody else — I think they call it a warm-up . |
| 25 | Nor did it follow a period of economic and demographic stagnation . |
| 26 | Nor did he make a note of it . |
| 27 | He did not loot , nor did he squeeze a fortune from his oriental subjects , as so many of his British and Dutch East India Company contemporaries thought quite normal . |
| 28 | He had not learned the right lesson , however , nor did he have a solution to the problem that would be posed by the mud created by rain and his own artillery . |
| 29 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
| 30 | The princess had never agreed to attend the gala , nor had she demanded a fee for doing so . |