Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales . |
| 15 | Nor did we make much fuss over presents . |
| 16 | However , we never put heterosexism itself on the conference agenda , nor did we ask heterosexual participants to discuss it . |
| 17 | We did not consciously ‘ exercise ’ , nor did we require supplementary exercise to keep our bodies finely tuned . |
| 18 | Nor did they want equal non-protection from the law — they wanted censorship . |
| 19 | Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se . |
| 23 | Nor did they have any preconceptions about his personality or politics . |
| 24 | She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background . |
| 25 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 26 | Nor did she have much confidence in many of the nannies who now worked at Park House . |
| 27 | Jones ' record of that meeting notes that ‘ None of these dates were questioned or challenged by Fleischmann and Pons or anyone present , nor did anyone raise any questions about the proposal-review process . |
| 28 | But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice . |
| 29 | Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck . |
| 30 | The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s . |