Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for quality , it 's just for simple cases and in truly complex insolvencies or where we wanted someone to trade the company through , the need to get the person or firm with the right expertise would tend to override any cost concerns . ’ |
| 2 | You have n't even enquired about my holiday or where I spent it . ’ |
| 3 | This is partly because of their ephemeral nature and partly because disclosure would often reveal either that very sensitive subjects were under consideration or that we had something in train about which we were not ready to make an announcement . |
| 4 | Possible inferences might be that the teacher was angry , that she actually hit Mary , that she hurt her , or that she swung her hand and missed . |
| 5 | An undemonstrative woman , the mother was quite incapable of putting her arms around her son and telling him that she was proud of him or that she loved him . |
| 6 | Whether it was Millie 's infuriated strength that caused the woman 's grasp on the scissors to slacken , or that she changed her tactics and meant to direct the scissors towards the child 's face , could n't be known , but Millie grabbed at the open blades and , managing to twist them round , consciously or by accident drove one of the blades into the nun 's arm . |
| 7 | I can find no evidence that anyone accompanied him or that anyone met him here . ’ |
| 8 | Or that he hanged himself virtually under water ? |
| 9 | It is a defence , however , if the defendant can satisfy the court that it was not known or suspected that drug trafficking was involved , or that he disclosed his knowledge or suspicion to the relevant authorities . |
| 10 | The completion of the canon of Scripture by the early Church does not signify that they thought the Lord had stopped speaking or that he had nothing fresh to say . |
| 11 | He might say that there was a convention relating to such actions or that he did something because it was expected of him . |
| 12 | She loved Piers , and it just was n't good enough to be told that he needed her or that he wanted her . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
| 14 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |
| 15 | But they would n't take that trouble , but they 'd always speak to the uniform policemen , if or if they heard anyone smashing glass , but they would n't go out of their way . |
| 16 | What way they dried them , whether it was in the sun or if they 'd anything to dry them with , I do n't ken . |
| 17 | They never did know or if they did they were n't saying . |
| 18 | It is apparent from the findings of fact that the justices made no findings , or if they did they did not record them , as to whether ( i ) the child was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation , or ( ii ) that if he absconded he would be likely to suffer significant harm . |
| 19 | We went back to the villa hand in hand and no one ever knew we had been out , or if they did they did n't say . |
| 20 | Few , if any , suspected the doctor or my father of being involved ; or if they did they did not say so . |
| 21 | Or if they did it was so modern that nobody got to hear about it . |
| 22 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 23 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 24 | Or if anybody told me , I mean I would n't and talking in confidence about their private life or |
| 25 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 26 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 27 | If undoing is unsuccessful , or if you preferred your document the way it was before undoing , Undo a second time . |
| 28 | I was n't sure whether he wanted to meet God or if he thought he was God . |
| 29 | Jasper wondered if the man in uniform had actually seen Chris on the roof of the car , had had a phone call from Kensington High Street that someone was on the roof of a car , or if he knew nothing except what that woman was telling him . |
| 30 | Richmann never noticed the sudden widening of Benny 's eyes , or if he did he must have assumed it was fear at her imminent death . |