Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As a top physiotherapist , she is more than used to stretching and flexing the muscles of people who have tortured their frail frame , or endured a bad tackle on the football field . |
2 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
3 | On many occasions we have increased the sensitivity of our measurements or made a new class of observations , only to discover new phenomena that were not predicted by the existing theory , and to account for these we have had to develop a more advanced theory . |
4 | No member of the household has made more than two claims or made a single claim above £2,500 on home insurance in the last two years |
5 | And Audrey has never been on the stage , or left her husband , or made a false move in public in any direction . " |
6 | or used the wrong form of his name ? |
7 | The fastest growing economies since 1945 have been those very economies which have not indulged in the purchase of nuclear weapons or devoted a disproportionate share of their budgets to military expenditure . |
8 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
9 | By the time you 've booby-trapped your car , or hired an armed guard for it , walked miles , found the crag and avoided the most polished routes you might not consider it worth the hassle . |
10 | They may have received some college training , participated in in-service training provided by government agencies or employers , or received no specific training for their jobs . |
11 | When the opportunity presented itself some Arab states , for example Egypt ( which formally repudiated its treaty in 1976 ) and Iraq ( 1952–3 ) , discarded or downgraded the Soviet Union in their foreign relations and cultivated the United States . |
12 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
13 | None of the patients in either group had severe colitis at entry or developed a severe flare during the study . |
14 | It is uncertain whether he composed this song himself or adapted an existing poem to the mocking , sentimental tone that was his and was already regarded as typical of Dublin . |
15 | It states it shall be the duty of local authorities , there i- , and on that point I , you know , in this area , I do n't think that Wiltshire County Council has done , or spent a great deal of money in actually furthering those . |
16 | If a person completed a year 's hiring in a parish , or served a full period of apprenticeship , then the right of settlement shifted to that parish . |
17 | He described local people dropping dead from starvation or being torn apart by Serb shelling as they sought shelter or scoured the snowy terrain for anything edible . |
18 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
19 | Beckett 's characters ‘ begin and end their fictional journey at the same place , in the same condition , and without having learned , discovered , or acquired the least knowledge about themselves and the world in which they exist ’ ( Federman 1965 : 4 ) . |
20 | Whenever she felt unwell or oppressed she embarked on a new course of treatment at the alternative medicine centre or ingested a new range of vitamins . |
21 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
22 | This is not to say that workers necessarily believed or accepted the new image of employers especially as during the 1950s memories of the pre-war era were clearly resonant . |
23 | Mandalay claims it , and the claim seems reasonable until you see Meiktila , a city of tents , or Myingyan in ruins , or Myitkyina a big sprawling village of huts , or Yenangyaung a derelict area of rusting oil derricks , or Prome flat and deserted . |
24 | A separate Harmsworth chain owned a morning and three evenings , and United Newspapers controlled or had a major interest in six . |
25 | Business friends , golfing partners , members of your fucking club , whoever 's on the board of your companies , anyone you 've made a phone call to , or had a confidential chat with , anyone who 's asked for help , or given it . |
26 | The corners of his mouth bit inward deeply ; it was sometimes difficult to know whether he smiled , or had a wry taste on his tongue . |
27 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
28 | This action is available if , at the time of the conversion , the plaintiff was in possession of the goods ( The Jag-Shakti [ 1986 ] 1 AC 337 ) or had an immediate right of possession of them . |
29 | However , many academic courses have or had an implicit point of reference in school-teaching , and many are organized in institutes or professional or subject associations . |
30 | Had they checked with a knowledgeable nuclear physicist — and there were several in the nearby physics department who could have helped — or held a technical seminar before the press conference , they would have learned this before events overtook them . |