Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 4 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 5 | If he 's never caught his breath at the sight of your crooked smile , or felt his heart lurch with love at the sound of your voice , or watched you walk across a room and wanted you and finally found out that you return his feelings , then he 's a poor man and I 'm the richest man in the world . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They brought , either bought them themselves or bought them posed to beworking with me cos I want to do something on diaries they 've got weekly diary , little |
| 8 | " When asked " Were they forcibly evicted , or did they go of their own free will ? " he answered " Some left voluntarily owing to the poor markets . " |
| 9 | Did they have a , did they have a band or anything in the church or did they sing without music ? |
| 10 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 11 | She 's asked was that in school or did she go to your house ? |
| 12 | Was she raped by James Hepburn , earl of Bothwell , and forced to marry him , or did she connive at her own abduction ? |
| 13 | Or did he go to his death in the anguished conviction that he was responsible for his master 's ? |
| 14 | And did he have any men working for him or did he work on his own ? |
| 15 | Did this er , going back to Helliwells again , repairing of the aircraft , did that cease when the war finished or did it continue for a time afterwards ? |
| 16 | Or did it have to be somebody like Sir Edward ? |
| 17 | You see this thing did you buy this separately or did it come in the Walkman ? |
| 18 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 19 | And how did you actually , I mean , did you do all this er er er , as it were in an amateur way or did you do through any kind of profe , wi with the help of doctors or |
| 20 | Did you walk , or did you sit in your pushchair ? |
| 21 | Did you go to the sort of school where it was made easy to go into science , or did you go to the sort of school where nice girls did the arts or something quite different ? |
| 22 | Or did you go round them yourself ? |
| 23 | Did you walk , or did you walk in your pushchair ? |
| 24 | was it updated a second time or did you ask for it to be updated a second time ? |
| 25 | Did you did you originally when you actually erm applied to get a council place did you did you s did you want to move to the flats here or did you apply for put other |
| 26 | Many Italians changed their names to English versions — or had them changed by English people who could n't pronounce Italian ones . |
| 27 | Once you have chosen your texts ( or had them chosen for you ) , you need to decide how to focus on them . |
| 28 | First , did these two strangers suddenly appear in Oxfordshire or had they travelled from London ? |
| 29 | Or had it taken from him . |
| 30 | As the eldest son , Father shortened his education — or had it shortened for him — and went to help in the family business . |