Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The box with the question mark — ? — operates only with boxes 3 or 4 highlighted and calls up the technique numbers or cast on numbers as lists . |
| 2 | The people seemed kindly and one or two nodded or greeted me . |
| 3 | One or two turned and lumbered away as she rode toward them . |
| 4 | Constipation or faecal soiling , or both recurred and persisted until follow up as soon as the laxatives were discontinued in 31 of 33 children who did not recover . |
| 5 | ‘ Make way for Miss Louise , ’ they chorused , but I was not bothered by their sarcasm : it was the snowballs that some threw that mattered . |
| 6 | On 10 November 1991 , JET announced that this worked as expected , giving optimism for the future . |
| 7 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |
| 8 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 9 | Those that survived — particularly those that both survived and thrived , as in ancient Egypt — have left us ample evidence both of the danger , and of how it was met . |
| 10 | Certainly the British studies of the 1950s and 60s presented and popularized the image of the working-class family which was characterized by extensive and regular sharing of support , especially between women . |
| 11 | Again , as it was impossible for wheeled implements to cross the frequent deep water-cuts of a field ploughed in this way , all cultivation had to be done along the stetch itself ; and this meant that implements — drills , hoes , harrows , etc. — had to be adapted to fit the width of stetch used . |
| 12 | She came out of the marshes , and she was grey all over grey hair , grey face , grey rags and tatters and all mired and spattered , besides , from the marsh mud . |
| 13 | The hospitals were crammed full of the flower of Orkney 's youth and many coughed and spluttered their way to an early death . |
| 14 | Health measures enacted at the Local Government Board between 1871 and 1918 extended and deepened state intervention in familiar areas : sanitation , working-class housing , the industrial environment , nuisances , water-supply , etc . |
| 15 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 16 | Most of the animals ran straight to the river banks , but eight panicked and jumped into the water . |
| 17 | Yeah but all said and done Geoff , they are his fa , he is their father . |
| 18 | We received some odd looks from customers but most smiled and fussed over Spike & Molly . |
| 19 | Because when all said and done if at the end of two days you do n't feel that you 're any better at making a presentation then when you started then why have you been here for two days . |
| 20 | We have a tremendous skill base at doing good due diligence work when all said and done due diligence work is really just a focussed audit approach and if we 've good auditors , we should jolly well and good er new diligence er provides and we to react to new diligence opportunities rather than seek out new diligence opportunities . |