Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There appears to be a tendency to go from oral-only to speech with speech-supportive means such as fingerspelling or cued speech ; from those there is a movement in the direction of these of sign to better disambiguate the spoken word ; next comes a signed version of the spoke , language either with speech or without it depending on the circumstances ; and finally . |
| 2 | He wondered whether Simon had found his knife or got hold of another one . |
| 3 | Thanks go to Kay Baxter , Rosemary Frost , Marlene McGee , Lucy Jackson and Lynne Thomas , who designed , or produced material for , the stall . |
| 4 | Thus , faced with words with a medial e sound like : head bed thread or led health except the pupil ought to be clear that because there is a spelling choice , he is encouraged to use the dictionary to check which is the correct form for this context . |
| 5 | Four SSDs either co-operated with the housing authority to provide interim accommodation or made provision out of their own capital budget . |
| 6 | ( iv ) In proof-reading any work produced on a word processor , pupils may have access to a computer spelling checker. ( v ) Pupils should be encouraged to use whatever presentational devices are appropriate for a given piece of work — particularly work that is to be displayed or made public . |
| 7 | With sufficient funds to travel to many active libraries , it enables the British Library Information Officer for User Education to make more personal contact , and thus frequently acquire information that would otherwise not be volunteered or made public . |
| 8 | The massive forgetting of dreams can be explained in terms of the strait-jacket of a single thought-stream preventing the formation of any such intention , or dream events from being brought into perspective or made sense of . |
| 9 | The fact gnawed at him , haunting him while he cleaned out the sitting-room fire or made tea or used the Electrolux . |
| 10 | A nasopharyngeal swab or paired serum samples , or both , were collected from healthy subjects . |
| 11 | As well as disputes with neighbours , shopkeepers and workmen , the dearer policies also cover criminal prosecution — provided you have n't brought the charge on yourself or admitted guilt . |
| 12 | Thus , unless some sympathetic council contributes to a station or reopened line , improvements will not happen . |
| 13 | She says that although he did drink , he never ran a still or sold drink . |
| 14 | Nearly half of those questioned — all of whom had bought or sold property within the past eighteen months — had some complaint , the most common being that agents charged too much and were inefficient or indifferent . |
| 15 | He would leave them soon — as soon as he found a place that pleased him and set up home , or found work at his own mystery of painting , dyeing and carpentry . |
| 16 | Anyone who needs to contact Petsearch either to report a missing or found pet or to give a donation should contact . |
| 17 | Last year 226 employees lost their jobs , 196 in the UK and 40 in Italy , although many were relocated within Courtaulds businesses , or found employment through the job search scheme . |
| 18 | She can not guess at his anxieties or burdens because she has never encouraged him to talk about them or found time to stop whatever she was doing and listen . |
| 19 | The case involved a challenge to the Reagan administration 's 1984 ban on family planning aid — administered by the Agency for International Development ( AID ) — to foreign health-care organizations which performed abortions or provided abortion counselling . |
| 20 | ‘ Permit ’ is not as precise a term as ‘ cause ’ and denotes an express or inferred permission of a general or particular type . |
| 21 | Rigid-tined cultivators or ‘ grubbers ’ are very useful for breaking up consolidated or panned soil ( for instance , in the spring after a root crop ) , and can often replace the mould-board plough in the first stage of working down a tilth . |
| 22 | If the batsman seeks to score behind the wicket off a full length ball which is in the channel , he must hit ‘ across the line of the delivery , ’ minimise his chances of making contact and increase the risk of his being bowled or dismissed lbw . |
| 23 | To art professionals an editioned print is an extension of the original drawn or etched image from which it was run off . |
| 24 | He let a dignified minute pass before going out himself , collecting Catherine , and dispatching Bruce to supervise the house-to-house interviews in Malplaquet Terrace , to see if anyone could be found who had seen the blue BMW arrive or caught sight of its driver . |
| 25 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 26 | Single cells ca n't be moved with the mouse , and ranges which are in the process of being copied or moved look identical , so you 're more likely to lose track of what you 're doing . |
| 27 | Day care in this context means any form of care or supervised activity provided for children during the day on a regular basis or otherwise . |
| 28 | I 'd never even held a tiny baby let alone changed a nappy or supervised bath time . |
| 29 | Many of the victims ' relatives broke down , fainted or shouted abuse . |
| 30 | It is not just the initial charge but also the upkeep — permanently tinted or lightened hair will need the roots retouching regularly . |