Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a co-ordinator 's retired or resigned who do you actually communicate with to find out if the group wants to continue playing |
| 2 | The problem is that when a parent is feeling depressed or overwrought it is difficult for them to think of alternative strategies . |
| 3 | Profoundly deaf pupils will almost certainly need modification of the speaking and listening component , especially if they were born deaf or lost their hearing before acquiring language . |
| 4 | The other thing is with employer legislation update , did we decide to do some training on that or did we decide that we would produce a handout ? |
| 5 | Were you working after that or did you stop working then ? |
| 6 | Did he suggest that or did you ask him ? |
| 7 | Did they have to ask him to do that or did he just volunteer . |
| 8 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whether your hair is naturally curly or permed it needs extra special care to keep it in tip-top condition . |
| 11 | For the widowed or divorced there was no difference between those with and without children nor any significant trend with the number of children . |
| 12 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
| 13 | And it was this that kept me going . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was this that kept him alive . |
| 15 | It was this that made me unable to sleep , so that coming downstairs , parched with alcohol , for a glass of lemonade , I heard my mother and Lili talking . |
| 16 | I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me . |
| 17 | It was this that made it possible for the whole of the cuckoo 's breeding cycle to be filmed , resulting in an early classic of wildlife photography , The Cuckoo 's Secret . |
| 18 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 19 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 20 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 21 | It was around Easter , and perhaps it was this that led him to wax theological as we bounced across the heather and gorse . |
| 22 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 23 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 24 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 25 | I want to concentrate on the week in Adelaide in January 1933 that brought it all to a head , and the personal dilemma I faced as the Teuter-Press Association correspondent . |
| 26 | even though there was a bit of grey in it , it was the , really the brown that predominated it , I said it , it , the grey suite would n't go with it |
| 27 | And now it was n't the threat of being lasered in half that knotted her stomach : it was the inevitability of the sense of failure , of letting down her team , that would follow a muffed throw . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , considerable pressure was put on the Conservative government to take some action to cope with the problem , though it was neither clear nor agreed what the basic problem was . |
| 29 | Er erm I think , I mean they all eat most of them eat the ham , there were a few that sent it back I think it was probably a bit much for them . |
| 30 | It was not merely the weather that made the Decoy Lodge feel gloomier , more shadowy than Louisa remembered , not merely the damp that left her bones so chill . |