Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one envied or imitated the family . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you rather I simply agreed or told the truth ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | Confusion peaked with the arrival of the rescue teams but they led or carried the survivors to the relative peace of the sick-bay . |
| 4 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 5 | But qualified privilege exempts the person who made or published the statement without malice in the course of their work to a person with a duty or interest to receive it . |
| 6 | What a coup for the bastards , if they kidnapped or murdered the wife of a Cabinet Minister . |
| 7 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 8 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 9 | They either furthered or retarded the aim of evolution , which was and always will be , the constant increase in the ability of the being at the head of the evolutionary chain , that is man , to enjoy the experience of life . |
| 10 | And all the rime you knew that you would never take the risk of getting shot which this involved or have the necessary patience to carry it out . |
| 11 | Jesus blessed and broke the bread ( Mark 6:41 ) . |
| 12 | The Samaritan stopped , helped and rescued the unfortunate traveller . |
| 13 | Precisely chiselled pegs of a different wood from the rest of the ship , which swelled and secured the timbers once they were immersed in the water , were used instead of nails or screws . |
| 14 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 15 | She employed the architect George Devey to build her ‘ Pavilion ’ , where she would spend her days , but for fear of being made ill by the river 's damp fumes she always dined and spent the night with her brother at Waddesdon . |
| 16 | So they re-wrote and re-recorded the text . |
| 17 | From Lizard Point we entered and left the Culdrose MATZ . |
| 18 | I make sure , then prepare to leave , but I want to make it appear that I entered and left the church like a ghost . |
| 19 | Jenny makes all the crackers and this year she designed and made the living room decorations , including the red felt pelmet that hangs above the fireplace . |
| 20 | Right : Philip designed and made the circular dining table using smoky blue glass |
| 21 | He designed and made the units from timber he found locally and then tiled the worktops . |
| 22 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , he designed and wired the control panel and delighted both in his consultant capacity and also in being again involved in his life 's obsession on what to him was virtually home ground . |
| 24 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 25 | For Conrad Dasypodius , however , the mathematician at Strasburg Academy who designed and planned the clock , the nominal essence would be radically different . |
| 26 | In 1826 he was appointed resident engineer to the London docks where , over the next nine years , he designed and executed the Eastern dock , with the associated warehousing , entrance locks , bridges , and other works . |
| 27 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |
| 28 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 29 | The son of King George III , as Prince Regent , was renowned as a connoisseur of elegant living and of art treasures , also architecture and was the patron of the architect , John Nash , who designed and built the famous Regent Street crescent in London 's West End , and other developments around Regents Park , also the equally famous Brighton Pavilion . |
| 30 | It is perhaps ironic that this tablet is one of the few on the market which can be interfaced with the Dragon computer as the company which makes it is the remnants of the firm which designed and built the Dragon . |