Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sparked immediate criticism that the MMC regulations requiring Bass to free pubs from the tie or sell them had been by-passed . |
| 2 | They regard it as an ideal way to familiarise themselves with the latest legislative and other changes and are sometimes reluctant to delegate the task or to see it rendered unnecessary , as is the case with the microfilm system described below . |
| 3 | This allows the meeting to ask questions , comment or review what happened at previous meetings and to check that decisions have been carried out , or that matters have progressed in the manner envisaged . |
| 4 | Whenever she felt unwell or oppressed she embarked on a new course of treatment at the alternative medicine centre or ingested a new range of vitamins . |
| 5 | Davide , after returning from America , had lost his bump of locality for his native place ; when the plan showed a turning one way , he missed it , or found he wanted to walk back where he had come from , or go in another direction altogether . |
| 6 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 7 | However , they have never forgiven or forgotten what happened . |
| 8 | Or pretended he did . |
| 9 | Each time you wanted to go up or down you had to pull a chain . |
| 10 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 11 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 12 | Gyggle was n't to be put off by this ; instead of retreating or retrenching he suggested even more radical measures . |
| 13 | The expectations on him to perform as a wit at the Painters ' Table further drained his energy and if feeling jaded or bored he drank a lot . |
| 14 | I 've thought all along that Anthea Darnell knows something , and I suspect that she heard , or saw , or guessed what happened , and she 's shielding Meryl . |
| 15 | When he was sure that there was no chance of being disturbed or observed he undid the flap at the top of the bag and reached inside . |
| 16 | The employers ' initiative had ‘ opened the door for a new and fruitful phase in the council 's activities ’ ; the unions must now decide ‘ whether to keep the door open , let it swing , or slam it shut ’ ; the employers ' action was ‘ momentous in itself for British industry ’ , it was ‘ nothing less than a confrontation ’ — the word had become indispensable for all of us , from French planners to Indonesian terrorists . |
| 17 | To get a replacement kidney , patients must either find somebody willing to part with one of their 's or get one transplanted from a donor who has just died . |
| 18 | The wine and lemon-flavoured cream whip or syllabub which had crowned the Trifle had begun to disappear . |
| 19 | A great hush fell over the entire Wolfwood , as if , thought Snizort , every living creature knew or heard or sensed what had happened and was waiting to see what the Trees would do . |
| 20 | If you did , or know who did , please contact us at the magazine . |
| 21 | If you did , or know who did , please contact us at the magazine . |
| 22 | Or suppose I wished to challenge what A said . |
| 23 | Forgotten , or decided it had been idle talk , a vow impossible to realise . |
| 24 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 25 | This means that the ‘ same ’ cell can be studied in preparation after preparation , its connections and the effects of stimulating or excising it followed in detail — something that is quite impossible in any of the organisms yet discussed in this chapter ( Figure 7.5 ) . |
| 26 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |
| 27 | Everybody should know the boundaries of their own competence , where and how their activities touch on those of others , and in what circumstances they need to consult others or keep them informed . |
| 28 | A series of what came to be called ‘ prejudice sessions ’ , encouraged people across the business to say what they really thought about BP Oil — or thought they thought . |
| 29 | Whatever people like Page may have felt or thought they felt about the Vietnam war , it is difficult not to regard them as much its victims as its predators . |
| 30 | You could understand it with his family — more or less ; they had something to lose , or thought they had . ’ |