Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 2 | Dawn has never bent or broken a feather in two and a half years . |
| 3 | Because the internal fabric and walls of the flats always remained cold , it meant that when any warm moist air was produced when people breathed or boiled a kettle , the steam condensed on the cold surfaces which was the ideal breeding conditions for the fungus . |
| 4 | As times when you have been very busy and may have missed or delayed a meal , your blood glucose levels can fall . |
| 5 | She has never hurled a grenade or primed a bomb in her life . |
| 6 | The readers who wrote to us could have read a book , heard a story , or seen a film , and then forgotten about it . |
| 7 | I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so . |
| 8 | Especially if you 've paid or done a lot to get in — whether it 's the snooker hall or the Garrick . ’ |
| 9 | Say absolutely nothing when you 've lost or drawn a game , tell them how brilliant the team is when you 've won . ’ |
| 10 | How many times have you bought something that has let you down ( and not complained ) or worn a garment for just one season simply because it was the latest gimmick ? |
| 11 | For example Charlesworth et al , 1984 , by analysis of 1979/80 survey data on 255 elderly people and their 157 carers in north-west England , found that 22 per cent of the carers felt their caring role had either exacerbated or caused a health problem for them ; 38 per cent had experienced some restriction in relation to work , and 44 per cent some restriction on their leisure time . |
| 12 | In the extraordinary procedure , however , the magistrate either dealt with the case himself or appointed a deputy ( iudex pedaneus ) . |
| 13 | Sealed units must have destroyed at lot of the or taken a chunk out of the market . |
| 14 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
| 15 | A school leaver in 1976 , he had never owned a camera or taken a picture . |
| 16 | Where stated a baby 's cot can be supplied at a charge of £5 per week . |
| 17 | But the man beside her would no more have walked or ridden a motorcycle than he would have willingly been parted from this — this blatant symbol of money . |
| 18 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 19 | Into the largely unexplored Hose Range , and an area called the Bukit Tengah , where lived a number of rare and uncollected species , including the ratbird , happy until this juncture in their uncollected state . |
| 20 | if , during a dictation practice , the majority of students have an abnormally high number of spelling errors , one might infer that the teacher has either dictated too fast or chosen a passage too difficult for the level of that class . |
| 21 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 22 | Now these companies must reveal , if asked , where the data they hold on you came from — whether , for example , they have bought or rented a list from another organisation or collected the information themselves . |
| 23 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 24 | If the creditor had , before the commencement of the bankruptcy , issued execution against the debtor 's goods or attached a debt due to him , that creditor is not entitled to retain the benefit of his execution or attachment unless the execution or attachment had been completed before the commencement of the bankruptcy ( s 346(1) ) . |
| 25 | Bearing in mind that given a choice between the use of rail and car , the question of cost necessarily will come into that equation . |
| 26 | Although given a total of fifty-four times on two tours , which was not bad for an apprentice work mounted as a try-out , the nearest Adieu got to central London was the open-air theatre at Finsbury Park , where they danced that summer . |
| 27 | Although called a chapel , the building is more like a cathedral in scale , with its awe-inspiring and lofty interior terminating in a remarkable fan vault , the largest in the world , and its wonderfully delicate detailing belying its weight of almost 2000 tonnes . |
| 28 | Although called a village , an examination of its plan on the ground shows that it consists in fact of three or four farmsteads , almost identical in their units , among their garden plots . |
| 29 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 30 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |