Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift .
2 my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim
3 But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ?
4 Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you
5 Did you get the sack or did you just pack it in ?
6 At that point were both of you behind the shield or had he stepped out from behind ?
7 In his first address to the UN since taking office , United States President George Bush on Sept. 25 made proposals for cuts in chemical weapons , saying that the United States would begin elimination of 60 per cent or 98 per cent of its chemical weapons respectively , provided the Soviet Union cut its own stockpile to an equal level or eliminated it completely ; and that the USA would destroy all its chemical weapons within 10 years if the countries capable of producing such weapons signed a total ban treaty .
8 By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities .
9 Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country .
10 Did you ask him if he 'd te , told his mum or did he just volunteer it ?
11 In and around Brighton & Hove you 'll find there simply are n't enough hours in the day .
12 Did he really have all that in the kitchen or had she sent out for it ?
13 They led the dogs to a place where the river meandered and the shingle bank was broad and deserted , and they beat them with sticks or stoned them .
14 There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago .
15 If the money so raised in a modern equivalent of this lottery is to be wasted on similar luxuries , it would be better if we saved our money or spent it on necessities .
16 Were you given the money or did you have to pay for that yourself ?
17 Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon .
18 Did you obtain any of that information from the collators card or did you know it yourself ?
19 Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ .
20 Did you was it you who chose to go and work in Llaneilian or did they send you to work there from ?
21 He talked with them in his study or took them for walks in the park .
22 Was that just talk or did you have something real in mind ? ’
23 After the first turn it 's down to luck , the Fanatic could go anywhere , but the chances are you 'll either block the enemy or hit him hard for at least one more turn .
24 How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ?
25 What what sort of things went on , erm was it close fighting or did you never see
26 Did they in fact have access to the new birth-control methods or did they practice older nineteenth-century birth-control techniques , more suited to the pockets of the working class ?
27 So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ?
28 On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up .
29 Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present .
30 I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . "
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