Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are eight shades of Varnish or Cream which can be mixed or applied one on top of another |
| 2 | And in the end , of course , he looked through the keyhole — or made one in her steel door with his sword-point according to one version — and there she was in a great marble bath disporting herself . |
| 3 | SUPPOSE you have a print by Picasso , Dali , Miro or Chagall , or sold one in the past few years : you have a special interest in a Brooklyn courtroom this week . |
| 4 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 5 | Erm I I I must say I have n't read or heard anything about the British Gas thing . |
| 6 | Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ? |
| 7 | And a fear of commitment itself is a real possibility for those of a parent or loved one during childhood . |
| 8 | We will phase out the Assisted Places scheme ( without affecting pupils currently on a place , or offered one from September 1992 ) and redirect the savings to meet wider educational needs . |
| 9 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 10 | … if the expert added up his figures wrongly ; or took something into account which he ought not to have taken into account , or conversely : or interpreted the agreement wrongly : or proceeded on some erroneous principle . |
| 11 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 12 | Fedorov had never liked his family , or felt anything in common with them . |
| 13 | Nicholas seldom did or said anything in business without repeating a text from the psalms or New Testament for his purpose . |
| 14 | The best I can say is that Boy looked something like , or had something like the feel of , Paul Newman when he 's playing the character christened Chance Wayne in that Tennessee Williams film . |
| 15 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 16 | ‘ Wheeler certainly knew or suspected something about candles since he 's been questioning Williams about them , ’ said Ian , recalling his unsatisfactory conversation with the Verger . |
| 17 | But to enable him to concentrate on it , the government services that arose one after the other in the nineteenth century ( forestry , irrigation , the archaeological survey , public health and sani-tation , roads ) were organized outside the administrative structure , and had virtually no contact with the district officer . |
| 18 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 19 | He was still looking at her ; appraisingly , with a sort of lazy sensuality that made something inside her twist tight . |
| 20 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 21 | At last she found the shop belonging to Dai Jones , it was spread well back from the front door , a long dimly lit store that sold everything from flour and salt to patent medicines . |
| 22 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 23 | He had respected her lack of interest in what others might have called sexual morality , had respected the fact that she had slept with him and neither offered nor expected anything in return . |
| 24 | It looked like a blaze photographed with a filter that transformed everything into shades of the same colour . |
| 25 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 26 | I was normally the first RAF person to view the scene , and I find it quite unbearable to attempt to describe the desolation and carnage that confronted one on a hilltop in the isolation and splendour of the Scottish Highlands . |
| 27 | All our respondents agreed that the new qualifications should be based on a structure of mandatory and optional units , though the strong view was expressed that this should be done in a way that allowed plenty of flexibility . |
| 28 | A confidential study designed to assess the extent of professional abuse , follows investigations in America that showed one in 10 counsellors developed sexual relationships with those they should have been helping . |
| 29 | She was still on a ‘ high ’ , the potent adrenalin pumping through her veins , eyes sparkling , cheeks glowing with a becoming flush that owed nothing to the skilfully applied make-up . |
| 30 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |