Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had accosted her in a public place , and yet she had n't screamed , or run , or asked for help . |
| 2 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 3 | The volume of the utterance may be loud to express anger or whispered for secrecy . |
| 4 | Those plants that concern us here were terrestrial or lived in bogs , rivers or lakes . |
| 5 | Many turnpike roads like the canals and railways after them , produced minor settlements or led to changes in existing ones . |
| 6 | Finally , as we discussed previously , even if primary productivity were to have increased , unless the increase was supported by nutrients external to the ocean , or led to depletion of the excess nutrients in the upper ocean , the effect on the drawdown of anthropogenic CO 2 would be insignificant . |
| 7 | He allowed his achievements to be played down or appropriated by George . |
| 8 | The children might have made a collection of shiny things or things made of metal , and be invited to think of things that they use at home which are shiny or made of metal . |
| 9 | From ancient times in India , icons have been modelled in stone or wood , cast in metal or made of clay . |
| 10 | Mustard seeds may be used either whole or cracked , or pulverized into flour . |
| 11 | Round tables and drop-leafs can be bought to act as library tables and sofa tables as described above , or there are large adjustable coffee and cocktail tables which can be raised to dining or lowered to coffee table height as desired . |
| 12 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 13 | The sheet is then printed on one side with the sheet being turned or tumbled from front to rear to print the opposite side . |
| 14 | The unconditional jump is , of course , inadequate by itself to select a sequence of instructions to be executed , if the choice depends on results previously calculated by the program or read as input data ( although instruction modification could be used ) . |
| 15 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 16 | Hamburg , for example , has about 30–40 per cent of its road system designated as 50 km/h main streets , with all of the remaining non-industrial roads designated or planned as Tempo 30 . |
| 17 | These are the sample from Greece that has been called Ouranopithecus macedoniensis by some , or synonymized with Graecopithecus freybergi by others , and the single maxilla from Samburu Hills which has not yet been named . |
| 18 | Over the centuries the title of Count has passed from family to family as old dynasties withered away , intermarried or perished in battle . |
| 19 | Finer I never saw or tasted from Barbados or better cured . |
| 20 | To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function . |
| 21 | Most colleges are walled or fenced with guards at the gates . |
| 22 | Oh , erm yes indeed we have , erm it 's that was a report which I 've put to Local Government Information which was in fact written by or contributed by officer Roy Holt and on the to erm have a look at that , have a copy of it I mean . |
| 23 | These xenobiotics may be activated or detoxified by phase I and phase II biotransformation enzymes including cytochromes P450 , epoxide hydrolases , and glutathione S-transferases . |
| 24 | COTTON PAPER IS SOMETIMES STILL CALLED OR DESCRIBED AS RAG PAPER . |
| 25 | Hence , looking at the contracts quoted on Hanson shares in Fig.7.2 , we can see that the highest exercise price is 160p and if the price of Hanson shares rose to 161 p for 4 consecutive trading days or rose to 170p the clearing house would create a new series of options with exercise prices of 180p . |
| 26 | Although it occurred more slowly than for subjects given non-reinforced pre-exposure , loss of the OR occurred in control subjects too , a result consistent with the view that α will decline when the CS predicts a consistent consequence and that the OR reflects the value of α . |
| 27 | It can also be blown with straws or dripped from straws . |
| 28 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 29 | Or moved to tears by its same sound . |
| 30 | A few care managers have already gained posts in the SSD 's linked resource centres or moved to children 's services . |