Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] [pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concluded that no one knew what was in the dumps or if they had the capacity to meet future needs . |
| 2 | Understandably , it has appealed to teachers reacting against older traditional methods , particularly if these divorced learning to read from any kind of true reading experience , or if they involved the use of books containing as many older schemes did — unnatural and stilted language which prevented children from using the linguistic knowledge they already had . |
| 3 | He would know in an instant if the Bogeyman made a move , or if anyone left the kitchen by the doorway into the hall . |
| 4 | They were on a roundabout , anyway , or if you preferred the image , a swing . |
| 5 | But if anybody crossed him , or if he thought the embassy establishment was trying to put him down , he 'd stand on his desk and raise hell . |
| 6 | Support workers rarely left because they found other preferred employment or because they disliked the work ( this happened with only three of the workers in Ipswich and only four in Newham ) . |
| 7 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
| 8 | I 'll never know whether it was to sharpen their teeth or whether they liked the taste of lead . |
| 9 | On the other hand , comparisons with national data may be less relevant in that there may be broad geographical variations either in incidence or in case ascertainment that would make it difficult to determine whether an increase in Seascale or Allerdale and Copeland was a local effect ( and hence possibly related to Sellafield ) or whether it affected the whole of Cumbria . |
| 10 | The question remains therefore whether the F B I was wise to force the issue with the gas attack or whether it aggravated the situation . |
| 11 | Or whether I got the pinny for nothing , I might have easy . |
| 12 | Or after we followed the duff advice of a legal journalist in a newspaper ? |
| 13 | What can you remember about your first week , or when you joined the force ? |
| 14 | By that time the flame was also very thin , and where it touched the wall the molten rock spat and ran . |
| 15 | No one seemed to be around , but nobody was willing to take any chances , and so they left the road and approached cautiously across country . |
| 16 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 17 | But his enemies believed that the sickness was just another of his delaying tactics and so they renewed the war as soon as the truce expired . |
| 18 | And so you took the parcel ? |
| 19 | And so you opened the window to have a look and what happened then ? |
| 20 | They have investigated the source of the smoke and although they walked the tunnel they have found no explanation except the phenomenon seemed to stop in a recess under the Halifax Road . |
| 21 | They were con-men who work the black market and although they spent the whole of the next day in Irkutsk taking me to lunch , visiting a host of Siberian churches and museums and organising a trip to the opera , their interest was in valutta — hard currency — not culture . |
| 22 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 23 | Her father was only interested in his family and his business and although he took the Evening Express , only read local news . |
| 24 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 25 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 26 | Although the Chicago School over-used the Darwinian metaphor of the struggle for survival , and although it made the mistake of equating ‘ society ’ or ‘ community ’ with the social systems of relatively small areas , the Chicago School still has much to offer in terms of the new kind of spatial sociology which we started to develop in Chapter 1 . |
| 27 | I found it very difficult not to push then , and although I tried the puff , puff , blow it did n't help , and I had to pant . |
| 28 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 29 | Peter Carrington was a major loss , and although I admired the loyalty of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce I thought their resignations unnecessary . |
| 30 | You see well the point was when you pick 'em up erm we had a sm we had a big boat , what we called hanger boat , a very heavy boat and that used to have a wooden so therefore we used to pull it up by hand and pull it ove on a little barrel with a hand power that 's what we used to do and once we got the anchor in board we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then rerun it again right on to the mud and on the anchor again . |