Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 2 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 3 | I mean did you , did you learn this as you went on or did you , did you |
| 4 | He adds : ‘ In the last year , most restaurants have brought their prices down or kept them the same as last year . |
| 5 | The bold spirits stood and made a show until the muskets cut them down or sent them fleeing . |
| 6 | Slither down or did you ? |
| 7 | If possible , try to relax , lie down or put your feet up , until the worst of the symptoms are over . |
| 8 | Already she opens my father 's letters , though so far she has not read them out loud or tied his tie for him . |
| 9 | That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) ) |
| 10 | They are people who either knew Jesus personally or apprenticed themselves , perhaps at second or third remove , to those who did . |
| 11 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 12 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 13 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 14 | But these were matters which preoccupied theologians ( whose intellectual reputation was not high ) , philosophers and artists ( who were admired but somewhat in the manner in which wealthy men admire the diamonds they can afford to buy their women ) and social critics , of the left or right , who did not like the kind of society they lived in or found themselves forced into . |
| 15 | When the dybbuk disappeared was when — and only when-I knew my hopes of getting Gittel back had come to nothing . |
| 16 | She did n't think that it was her place to do so nor did she want to appear to be a burden to the man she loved . |
| 17 | So , however disillusioned many were with the Tories and however much that swayed what they told the pollsters , they simply could not afford the extra tax burdens promised by Labour and the Liberal Democrats . |
| 18 | He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him . |
| 19 | And I mean I ca n't thank the people enough that sent them all . |
| 20 | I had ‘ flu ’ at the time , and perhaps that made me rather jaundiced . |
| 21 | Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them . |
| 22 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
| 23 | Bienvida had red hair when she was born but later on it turned dark , so that told her very little . |
| 24 | So that told us that we had better get a full-scale defence working immediately . ’ |
| 25 | We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job . |
| 26 | She could n't swim , so that left her with only two options : she could stay where she was and wait for whoever was lurking there to reach out of the darkness — but with her nature that was unthinkable — or she could run the gauntlet . |
| 27 | So that got me over the turkey . |
| 28 | So that made me unhappy , and in turn made Lesley unhappy , so it was n't a very good situation . |
| 29 | The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that . |
| 30 | ‘ She knew the lads and said they were very nice so that made it easier to audition for them . ’ |