Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 2 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 3 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 4 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 5 | When it rained they played squash or swam in the indoor pool . |
| 6 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 7 | No candidate , including himself , faced an opponent or disagreed with the Communist Party line . |
| 8 | After forceful driving by the male , eggs are laid in , or moved to the brooding tunnels or cave and protected carefully mainly by the male , sometimes apparently actually sitting on the eggs . |
| 9 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 10 | Their perseverance revealed the obvious : needs and capacities continue to change after a person has been de-hospitalized or moved from the parental home to a group home — and the developmental role has therefore to be seen as a permanent not a temporary one . |
| 11 | The passage also shows that Freemantle sometimes misunderstood or disapproved of the social content in her friend 's verses . |
| 12 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 13 | as if this were n't enough , we bounced on oversized ball , wielded staves for posture , learnt national dances and songs , explored the mediaeval charms of Coburg and neighbouring Bamberg or wallowed in the thermal baths of Rodach — and of course consumed enormous and excellent meals at the college , supplemented with German cakes in the town ( not to mention German wine … — . |
| 14 | He padded through the hall , up the four flights of stairs to the little landing where you either went straight ahead and out onto the battlements , or ducked through the wee door into the observatory . |
| 15 | In the shower cubicle , water hissed on ceramic tile or clattered on the green plastic curtain , according to the gyrations of the nude body within . |
| 16 | Or defected to the Soviet Union … |
| 17 | An amendment then added unless the ball has been played or touched by the other side . |
| 18 | At school , she had been considered something of a ‘ character ’ — a freak by her enemies , an eccentric by those loyal to her , or touched by the high voltage of her need . |
| 19 | Nothing more was seen or heard of the two men , and after a few days , the event was forgotten . |
| 20 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 21 | Source C describes how they bravely took over the dangerous jobs in munitions factories , and how they joined or worked alongside the armed services , either joining women 's armed services , or working as nurses out on the battlefront . |
| 22 | In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited . |
| 23 | It was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it either overturned or leapt from the rocky wall at the foot of the bank on to the road , along which traffic was speeding in both directions . |
| 24 | Enter A to view all process models which have been installed or deinstalled since the specified start date . |
| 25 | 4.2.2 Is a move advisable now or reconsidered in the near future ? |
| 26 | The disgust which inheres in desire is not , as the Freudian analysis might suggest , necessarily generated by or focused upon the repressed constituent of the self ; it may be , but what I am pointing to here is an additional structural interdependence of desire and disgust . |
| 27 | related to the existing er agricultural or related to the agricultural buildings , that will be put up before this is built . |
| 28 | In May 1990 the privatization of 28 heavily indebted industrial companies was announced ; another 21 would be liquidated and 200 industrial companies controlled by Greek banks would be sold or liquidated at the next stage of privatization . |
| 29 | The war seemed remote as she and John wandered through woods , scuffling their feet through crisp fallen leaves , or lay in the deep feather bed in the farmhouse bedroom . |
| 30 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |