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Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles .
2	But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things .
3	While the car is being repaired or serviced we ignore any limitations as to driving or use as shown in the policy schedule .
4	While the car is being repaired or serviced we ignore any limitations as to driving or use as shown in the policy schedule .
5	While the car is being repaired or serviced we ignore any limitations as to driving or use as shown in the policy schedule .
6	While the car is being repaired or serviced we ignore any limitations as to driving or use as shown in the policy schedule .
7	or did they want five pounds for him ?
8	Did he pause to note the whole lot , or did he have extraordinary recall , writing in his room late at night or next morning , or did he get the bones down on paper , and afterwards flesh out the rest with Johnson 's consultations ?
9	Or did he have another woman with him ?
10	Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle , or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was ?
11	Or did it make any difference either way ?
12	Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ?
13	Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of what you were going to do ?
14	They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp .
15	It is , of course , important to improve the trial process as much as possible but the trial can not be expected to offer an alternative to testing by way of re-investigation for reasons similar to those that led us to reject prosecutorial review as an alternative .
16	Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change .
17	And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing .
18	In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada .
19	More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’
20	It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward .
21	Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ?
22	It was the positive response to his first efforts that persuaded him to publish another Mahler facsimile .
23	Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales .
24	Nor did we make much fuss over presents .
25	However , we never put heterosexism itself on the conference agenda , nor did we ask heterosexual participants to discuss it .
26	We did not consciously ‘ exercise ’ , nor did we require supplementary exercise to keep our bodies finely tuned .
27	Nor did they want equal non-protection from the law — they wanted censorship .
28	Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy .
29	As it was , the Pistols were not together long enough , nor did they sell sufficient records , to make the profits for Virgin which Branson had always anticipated .
30	Nor did they lack ethical principles — contrary to much biased misunderstanding on the part of Russians with their Christian European prejudices , especially in the field of sexual mores .