Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | I can picture him now , a tall lean figure in a helmet , smoking his pipe as he watched the horses being saddled or inspected them while they were being fed ; 1 can see him cleaning his rifle in the verandah of his tent , or sitting chatting with my mother by the fire in the evening . |
| 3 | When machines went funny you just oiled them or prodded them or , if nothing else worked , hit them with a hammer . |
| 4 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 5 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 6 | Dewey then identified the characteristics of practical judgments in terms of their tentative and hypothetical character and suggested that we may often misjudge what is to be done either because we have overlooked relevant facts or misinterpreted them or because we have misjudged the best course of action to be followed . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) An occurrence to which this section applies is one which — ( a ) affected either parent of the child in his or her ability to have a normal , healthy child ; or ( b ) affected the mother during her pregnancy , or affected her or the child in the course of its birth , so that the child is born with disabilities which would not otherwise have been present . |
| 8 | By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother . |
| 9 | Or repainted it or redone anything to it . |
| 10 | The WFS data confirm earlier findings for developed countries that an infant is least likely to survive one year if its birth followed or preceded one that occurred within 24 months of its own ( Maine and McNamara , 1985 ; Acsadi and Johnson-Acsadi , 1985a , 1985b ; Maine , et al , 1985 ; Rutstein , 1983 , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | Somebody must have sat on it , or pulled it or |
| 12 | I 'm not making , and they 're going no I do n't mean that , he 's gon na fight you or hit you and Steven 's not gon na , you 're not gon na be able to control him . |
| 13 | She had n't adjusted her stance or braced herself or anything . |
| 14 | M : it is — it is quite good they 've certainly kept within the + em + + preserved it reasonably well or conserved it but we were up in Aberdeen this year for a holiday and we were staying right within the University complex there in Old Aberdeen+ and + oh some of the buildings there are beautiful really they really are nice + but er I was quite impressed with it — it 's the first holiday we 've had up there + |
| 15 | Or saw myself as feeling decisive and cool . |
| 16 | Important changes in the doctrine of precedent were also made in midgame : judges were persuaded or persuaded themselves that they were not in fact bound by court decisions their predecessors had taken as binding . |
| 17 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 18 | This will ‘ ground ’ your partner , or put him or her back in touch with their physical body . |
| 19 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 20 | Does that make a difference , or did he and others just start the ball rolling ? |
| 21 | And that is , now did he mention that or did n't he , or did I because . |
| 22 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 23 | Edward Shils contended that " pluralistic politics ' was " marked … by the moderation of political involvement " , and prohibited emotional intensity " .37 Others went further still , and suggested that political apathy might " reflect the health of democracy " ( Lipset ) , or praised it as " a more or less effective counter-force to the fanatics who constitute the real danger to liberal democracy " . |
| 24 | It 's too easy to tell a child not to make a fuss , it 's a big playground and to go and play away from whoever has hit them or kicked them or fallen out with them . |
| 25 | If the assailant knew what he or she was doing , if the victim was either surprised or trusted him or her , it would n't be impossible . |
| 26 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 27 | Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within . |
| 28 | Know that the Lord is God , it is he that made us and we are his . |
| 29 | The wind caught the spindrift and flung it as a jewelled and treacherous veil into the depths of the ragged sky that dizzied her when contrary winds ripped the clouds this way and that . |
| 30 | Longings that led it where it went |