Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 2 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 3 | But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 6 | Did you get the sack or did you just pack it in ? |
| 7 | At that point were both of you behind the shield or had he stepped out from behind ? |
| 8 | In his first address to the UN since taking office , United States President George Bush on Sept. 25 made proposals for cuts in chemical weapons , saying that the United States would begin elimination of 60 per cent or 98 per cent of its chemical weapons respectively , provided the Soviet Union cut its own stockpile to an equal level or eliminated it completely ; and that the USA would destroy all its chemical weapons within 10 years if the countries capable of producing such weapons signed a total ban treaty . |
| 9 | Did you ask him if he 'd te , told his mum or did he just volunteer it ? |
| 10 | Did he really have all that in the kitchen or had she sent out for it ? |
| 11 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 12 | If the money so raised in a modern equivalent of this lottery is to be wasted on similar luxuries , it would be better if we saved our money or spent it on necessities . |
| 13 | Were you given the money or did you have to pay for that yourself ? |
| 14 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 15 | Did you obtain any of that information from the collators card or did you know it yourself ? |
| 16 | Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed . |
| 17 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 18 | He talked with them in his study or took them for walks in the park . |
| 19 | Was that just talk or did you have something real in mind ? ’ |
| 20 | Suppose one or more of those who visited Burford three weeks later had witnessed the murder or knew what Everett had discovered . |
| 21 | After the first turn it 's down to luck , the Fanatic could go anywhere , but the chances are you 'll either block the enemy or hit him hard for at least one more turn . |
| 22 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 23 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 24 | What what sort of things went on , erm was it close fighting or did you never see |
| 25 | Another pointer in favour of Wimbledon and West Ham was that the clubs had already taken action or announced their intention to take action against certain players involved in the incident . |
| 26 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 27 | The Ancient Greeks had a word , ‘ hubris ’ , to refer to any human action that over-reached itself — of the kind that the Greeks regarded as an offence against the gods . |
| 28 | Swallowing his pride , Lexandro inveigled , connived , and bribed his way as a junior shrimp into the very Ducas clan gang which his father had heard would soon be pressed into service — an action that grieved his parents . |
| 29 | Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present . |
| 30 | I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . " |