Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 2 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 3 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 4 | The infamous Stanford Prison study experiment ( Haney et al. , 1973 ) , which had to be stopped because students in role as either prison warders or prisoners forgot they were in role , is powerful evidence of this possibility . |
| 5 | ‘ Please describe in your own words , how you reached your decisions ( i.e. what strategy or strategies did you use ? ) |
| 6 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 7 | Not by the slightest word or look did she betray to Miss Miggs that she knew she could n't read . |
| 8 | She thought that the photograph neither flattered , nor was very like her , but suppose Rose , or , worse still , Dr Neil or Matey saw it ? |
| 9 | Singer sensed a presence and turned , swinging a punch as if instinct or fear dictated it . |
| 10 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 11 | Speed was substituted early on and Pemberton came on giving Fairclough a hand ( although neither Chapman or Morley tested them for pace — basically because they have n't got any ) . |
| 12 | She flung the whole tangle of thought away from her and ran fast up the stairs as though in the room some delight or pleasure awaited her , not the hard task of painting . |
| 13 | Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted . |
| 14 | ‘ People like Stock , Aitken & Waterman thought they 'd discovered a formula for pop music , and there is n't a formula . |
| 15 | The instructions with this recipe which came from an old horseman 's notebook were : Set this mixture by the wind ; that is , the horseman was advised to stand in the wind so that as soon as the colt or horse scented him he would advance towards him . |
| 16 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 17 | She knew she had nothing to feel guilty about despite her attraction to Luke , having resisted him , but his relationship with Cavell was none of her business really , and whether Luke finally confessed that he had intended to be unfaithful or Cavell discovered it for herself , she did n't want to have to feel responsible for any eventual break-up . |
| 18 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 19 | Many groups around the world are working in these areas and the rate of data exchange using ‘ traditional ’ tapes or CD-ROM meant it could be two months before one group heard of another 's ideas . |
| 20 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 21 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 22 | Did you drink it ? or Arthur drank it will look for the referent of it among liquids . |
| 23 | Trade associations have been informed but Customs & Excise said it was up to industry bodies to inform their members . |
| 24 | ‘ Some chap or other told me once , ’ Artemis 's father suddenly said , ‘ that somebody or other discovered America before Columbus or whoever it was who did , but decided it was best to keep it under his hat . ’ |
| 25 | Er and when you saw the figure or figures did you say anything then ? |
| 26 | No Hellenistic poet or philosopher quoted it , although modern scholars have sometimes deluded themselves on this subject . |
| 27 | His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions . |
| 28 | If , in the 1980s a social worker or manager said they were ‘ working on the patch ’ , everyone would murmur reverentially : ‘ Alas , Professor Hadley , I knew him well ’ , or : ‘ I worked for East Sussex once ’ . |
| 29 | Before Kenton & Co. opened he had travelled to Bosbury in Herefordshire to learn the craft of turned rush-seated chair-making from an old man , Philip Clissett , who had been bodging chairs since 1838 . |
| 30 | Or people thought it was . |