Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The hospitals were crammed full of the flower of Orkney 's youth and many coughed and spluttered their way to an early death . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most of the animals ran straight to the river banks , but eight panicked and jumped into the water . |
| 12 | Yeah but all said and done Geoff , they are his fa , he is their father . |
| 13 | We received some odd looks from customers but most smiled and fussed over Spike & Molly . |