Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether Simon had found his knife or got hold of another one . |
| 2 | Thanks go to Kay Baxter , Rosemary Frost , Marlene McGee , Lucy Jackson and Lynne Thomas , who designed , or produced material for , the stall . |
| 3 | Thus , faced with words with a medial e sound like : head bed thread or led health except the pupil ought to be clear that because there is a spelling choice , he is encouraged to use the dictionary to check which is the correct form for this context . |
| 4 | The massive forgetting of dreams can be explained in terms of the strait-jacket of a single thought-stream preventing the formation of any such intention , or dream events from being brought into perspective or made sense of . |
| 5 | Nearly half of those questioned — all of whom had bought or sold property within the past eighteen months — had some complaint , the most common being that agents charged too much and were inefficient or indifferent . |
| 6 | He would leave them soon — as soon as he found a place that pleased him and set up home , or found work at his own mystery of painting , dyeing and carpentry . |
| 7 | Last year 226 employees lost their jobs , 196 in the UK and 40 in Italy , although many were relocated within Courtaulds businesses , or found employment through the job search scheme . |
| 8 | ‘ Permit ’ is not as precise a term as ‘ cause ’ and denotes an express or inferred permission of a general or particular type . |
| 9 | To art professionals an editioned print is an extension of the original drawn or etched image from which it was run off . |
| 10 | He let a dignified minute pass before going out himself , collecting Catherine , and dispatching Bruce to supervise the house-to-house interviews in Malplaquet Terrace , to see if anyone could be found who had seen the blue BMW arrive or caught sight of its driver . |
| 11 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 12 | To discover what difference the action project made ( that is , whether it delayed or prevented admission to an institution ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved the physical , emotional or mental well-being of dementia sufferers or their carers ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved family relationships ; whether it increased , decreased or had no effect on people 's receipt of statutory or other voluntary services ) . |
| 13 | Seasonal conditions which inhibited or prevented travel on the roads have been made much of by historians , but the mushrooming growth in scheduled services after 1760 is testimony to a substantial improvement in this respect . |
| 14 | He was the source of the villagers ' security and their insecurity : he loaned or granted money in times of crisis but in return benefited from their respect and obedience . |
| 15 | It is also likely that my friend will , at some point , have been to see the SUSA Welfare Officer and obtained help with a late grant , or received advice on one of a whole host of student problems from harassment to housing . |
| 16 | Etch uncovered , grease-free thin section or faced sample for about 30 s in 5% acetic acid solution . |
| 17 | Immerse thin section ( grease free surface ) or faced sample in etching solution , face uppermost , for 10–15 s at 20°C ( times are only approximate , and may vary widely with grain size etc . ) . |
| 18 | He emphasized the constant danger represented by fake or rigged competition between politicians who agree on almost all key aspects of public policy . |
| 19 | Most shopkeepers joined the co-operative movement , and big traders , wholesalers perhaps with their own trucks , diversified their businesses , or withdrew money from their businesses to send it abroad or to build houses for themselves and their families . |
| 20 | A bitter wind form the Elburz Mountains sweeps around two 707s parked in front of the low , white , thickly carpeted Imperial Pavilion where , in happier days , the Shah of Iran welcomed or bade farewell to the monarchs and statesmen who came to pay him court , nurture his ambitions and ask for alliances , money or other tokens of his kingship . |
| 21 | It is just possible that , given the choice , they might prefer the risk of an occasional torn ear or scratched nose to the certainty of a totally sexless adult life . |
| 22 | When she was not travelling round the world , Miss Hayes lived at Nyack or spent time with her adopted son , James , who became known to television viewers as detective Dan Williams on the series Hawaii Five-O . |
| 23 | Will often visited Lord Southampton , but sometimes we went on tour with the company , or spent time at home in Stratford . |
| 24 | Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons ; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule . |
| 25 | Many others were involved in civil suits or attended court as spectators . |
| 26 | There was little in the way of negotiation or managed change of the sort which might be expected from the Cockburn model . |
| 27 | I can detect nothing in the evidence , even on the debtor 's version , to suggest that Marshalls misled or took advantage of him in any way . |
| 28 | They threw themselves down on the street or took shelter behind cars and in doorways . |
| 29 | Traditionally , clipping was a spring rite or took place on the patronal festival . |
| 30 | Later on , when we distributed publicity or went door to door visiting , we never failed to draw at least one family to come and see this new thing which had come to pass . |