Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requisite energy-related technologies are either already available or demonstrated and close to commercialization " . |
| 2 | To get out of bed , for instance , the patient is turned onto his side or lifted and then brought into the sitting position on the side of the bed . |
| 3 | He 'd had nightmares featuring William before and they invariably ended with someone being beheaded or disembowelled or otherwise mangled in an unpleasant manner . |
| 4 | ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’ |
| 5 | In such circumstances the purchaser may be willing either to take the risk that consent is refused or withheld or alternatively to proceed without obtaining formal consent and if necessary argue that the relevant party to the contract has consented by its conduct after completion . |
| 6 | May be sniffed , or burned and then inhaled ( chasing the dragon ) or injected . |
| 7 | Alternatively the vendor may wish to transfer out to a new company all the assets and liabilities not being sold or assumed and then sell the shares in the original company . |
| 8 | The second point that could cause confusion on the printouts is to do with the way in which stitches are to be cast on or off , increased or decreased and so on . |
| 9 | In Chapter 3 we spoke of the importance of being able to signal , and of the influence of early experiences in acquiring confidence that signals will be seen or heard and then responded to . |
| 10 | The life-eater virus , spreading at amazing speed , would attack anything whatever that breathed or grew or crawled or flew as well as anything of biological origin : food , clothes , wood , feathers , bone . |
| 11 | He 'd said it was a natural voice , one that did n't have to be nursed or conserved or constantly disciplined . |
| 12 | The person in question was a relative of hers and was killed or died I 'm sure not whether he was killed or died but certainly served in the forces in the four fourteen eighteen war in he was buried in . |
| 13 | It might be suggested that the victim ‘ asked for it ’ by accepting a lift or an invitation to the defendant 's home or that he ‘ led him on ’ or consented and afterwards regretted it . |
| 14 | Bronze and silver items were manufactured or acquired and eventually buried , along with considerable quantities of other material , as grave-goods in the community 's cemetery ( Figure 2. 1 ) . |
| 15 | ( This is not of course to say that assignment amounts to assertion ; assignment is a necessary move in forming a syntactic-semantic construction , which may then be asserted or questioned or even indicated as the situation that the speaker desires to bring about . ) |
| 16 | Having lived for 20 years in a country in which the dominant religion was Buddhism , I thank God for the Buddha 's inspiration : ‘ Now may every living being , young or old , weak or strong , living near or far , known or unknown , living or departed or yet unborn , may every living thing be full of bliss . ’ |
| 17 | Test Mode A switch to specify whether the package structure is to be checked only ( True ) or updated as well ( False ) . |
| 18 | You have not crash dieted or fasted and therefore your weight is very unlikely to pile back on as soon as your goals have all been attained . |
| 19 | Then , it seemed hours later , when he sensed or smelt or somehow divined that he was almost at the road , there came , as likely as not out of his own imagination , the delicate sound of an indrawn breath . |
| 20 | He probably tried the door to the house , found that unlocked as well and picked up the hammer in case he was disturbed . ’ |
| 21 | The discovery of colourants , flavour enhancers and emulsifiers has unfortunately meant that processed and ready made food can contain ingredients of substandard quality and nutritional value . |
| 22 | When I started out , you could n't have bought a real Fender that played as well as this . |
| 23 | Everybody was there to be academically acknowledged at the highest level they could and sport was just something that came as well . |
| 24 | The tram is one example of a form of transport that flourished and then faded . |
| 25 | In three months , too , while she knew she would n't get a job that paid as well as the one she had now , she should have secured another job , should n't she ? |
| 26 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 27 | He raised his hands in the boxer 's victory salute to acknowledge the roar of applause from the cheerleaders that began as soon as the eulogy to announce him had ended . |
| 28 | Yes sir , er ever since P P G three was revised at the beginning of last year , I believe that the department has been moving steadily in the direction that indicated but certainly my brief here is quite specific . |
| 29 | So that stuck and eventually when that place folded and we came over here , er we just called them the Dollies and that was , they were referred to , everybody knew who they were , |
| 30 | Looks of surprise were exchanged all round them as he set an arm round Lachlan 's shoulders that stiffened and then relaxed ; and then the cheering erupted . |