Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I said the money you do n't spend . |
| 2 | Sally was the one , or somebody wanted the other programme I put the tape in and recorded |
| 3 | Approved by 193 votes to 39 with 33 abstentions , the new law permitted a termination during the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy which was the result of rape or which endangered the life of the mother , if the foetus was malformed , or if the pregnancy would cause a " psychological crisis " or a " social problem " . |
| 4 | This is so even if the interpretation given to an experience , or which stimulated the experience , is one not authentic to it , conditioned perhaps by the society of which the individual is a part . |
| 5 | Often you 'd hear somebody playing up , or you heard the screws zooming around because someone had cut up [ injured themselves ] . |
| 6 | If the comb is n't level , it may be because you did n't put it in symmetrically , or that the weights are n't positioned symmetrically , or it 's caught on the ribber , or you tied the end of the yarn to the clamp when you started . |
| 7 | Or you loved the melodramatic gesture more . |
| 8 | The experimenter instructed each child to pick up and talk about one toy and then applied a mild ‘ punishment ’ if he or she chose the more attractive of the pair . |
| 9 | Now of course that , it is the defendant 's case I anticipate , erm is er , although there 's nothing specific in the rule about it , is said to be er only a possibility for a plaintiff if the plaintiff when they sell , he or she served the notice to complete is in a position to be able to complete himself and here . |
| 10 | Similarly , in order for occupation of land to amount to a tenancy , the courts have held that the claimant must show that he or she had the right to , and did , exclude the landlord . |
| 11 | there was this picture of this , I do n't know if it was a man or a woman naked in a cubical and it filled , well he or she filled the cubical and you could n't see where the , the bottom began |
| 12 | She left one out as both she and the baby dozed ; or she placed the baby on the table and lifted a breast to its mouth . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) A solicitor 's employee who would not otherwise qualify under sub-paragraph ( 1 ) ( b ) of this rule to manage an office and who was 50 years of age or more on and had at that date been continuously employed in connection with the practice of that solicitor for not less than 20 years shall , provided he or she exercised the duty of management at that date , be entitled to continue to do so until retiring or attaining the age of 70 years , whichever first happens . |
| 14 | But he did n't know who was paying him , or who got the phetam in the end . |
| 15 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |
| 16 | But we are no nearer understanding what or who determined the form of decoration . |
| 17 | Her men had not been called upon to go ; she knew no-one who was in the army , or who flew the Tornado jets . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 19 | You ought to Rainbows or something got the car at least then |
| 20 | ( A third possible explanation is that the whole story was made up , to impress unbelievers , by the apostle Matthew or whoever wrote the gospel ascribed to him . |
| 21 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 22 | he should have known or whoever organized the fair should have known so really it does n't work unless you make one person responsible for that job . |
| 23 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 24 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 25 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 26 | So either they knew only the uncontaminated documents , which did nothing to strengthen what they believed to be an already strong case , or they knew the documents in their contaminated form , but knew also that they were forged , and kept quiet about them . |
| 27 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 28 | Brothers created elaborate practical arrangements to emphasize their equality ; or they divided the household if they thought the implicit pattern of seniority too discrepant with the facts . |
| 29 | Animals , like humans , were either endogamous or exogamous , they preferred the familiar or they preferred the novel . |
| 30 | Or they elevated the morbidity of the prison-gate crowd to the patriotism of ordinary men and women who ‘ travelled miles to be outside the prison when justice was done ’ . |