Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 2 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 3 | Events seen on the television the might before , or read about in the day 's newspaper , or relayed as they happen to police stations throughout the province over the MSX machine , naturally facilitate talk on sensitive topics or cam be used as contextually related props to achieve the same end . |
| 4 | 3.3.1.2 remove or tamper with the Trade Marks or other means of attribution or identification used on or in relation to the Licensed Products 3.3.1.3 use the Trade Marks in any way which might prejudice their distinctiveness or validity or the goodwill of therein 3.3.1.4 use in relation to the Products any Trade Marks other than the Trade Marks and the trade marks of and MacEnglish as set out in Schedule 2 B or used by in the Territory any Trade Marks or Trade Names so resembling the Trade Marks or Trade Names of as to be likely to cause confusion or deception . |
| 5 | Each table excludes not only any clients who died or moved out of the area before the periods ended ( for whom there was no difference between action and control samples ) , but also all those who at referral went straight into ( or remained in ) institutional care . |
| 6 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 7 | But any that have been worn flat or dug out of the applicator base are obviously such favourites that you should write down the names immediately . |
| 8 | Use it at 1½–2 ounces ( 43–57g ) per square yard ( square metre ) in spring and summer , hoed or dug in to the soil . |
| 9 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 10 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 11 | Ministers are told any gifts worth more than £125 must be refused or handed over to the department . |
| 12 | If you were sick or unemployed ( provided you sent in sick notes to your Social Security office or signed on at the Unemployment Benefit office ) ; |
| 13 | When this happens , the shot is either pushed or sliced out to the right with no distance . |
| 14 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 15 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 16 | On the death of a bishop , while his spiritual jurisdiction and income were administered by the dean , or prior , and chapter of the cathedral church , the temporalities of the see — as with any tenant-in-chief during a minority-reverted to the crown for the duration of the vacancy ; they were usually farmed or leased out to the profit of the crown and of the farmers who were naturally inclined to extract as much as they could from the windfall . |
| 17 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 18 | At T/Sgt John E Smith wrote : ‘ You would n't have known these ladies served as mechanics and armourers in the Women 's Royal Air Force beginning 52 years ago by the way they climbed up and the down the stairs at the control tower or scrambled up to the cockpit of an F-16 ’ . |
| 19 | The frames can be painted , papered or covered in with the walls or painted a contrasting colour or white . |
| 20 | At the most analytically simple , the difficulties remain as unexplored discrete entities or black boxes , which then have to be removed or steered round in the formulation of a conservation project or policy . |
| 21 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 22 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 23 | ‘ Results ’ shall mean any inventions designs computer software reports drawings or other works and information made or generated under in the course of work on the Project . |
| 24 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |
| 25 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 26 | Every culture , however imperfectly and blindly , either turned towards the light or fell back into the darkness . |
| 27 | They continued to feed , or stared out on the Zoo not looking in the direction of Minch at all ; while Creggan was so busy staring at Minch in delight and pleasure that he did not notice behind him , in the next-door cage , Slorne stare for the moment at Minch and then swing round and silently resume her vigil at the back top of her cage , looking at the trees and sky . |
| 28 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 29 | Becoming a member and shareholder on an issue by a private company ( or a closely-held public company whose shares are not listed or dealt in on the U.S.M. ) is subject to the same legal requirements of agreement plus entry on the register but in practice both will be achieved with less formality and , in the case of private companies , without the issue of allotment letters . |
| 30 | SI 1992 No 274 provides a complementary exemption , permitting companies which have ‘ relevant securities ’ traded or dealt in on the markets indicated above to issue investment advertisements provided that , in broad terms , they do not overtly advertise the company 's securities as investments or seek to advertise any other investments or investment services . |