Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 2 | Additionally , carried away by enthusiasm that ought not to affect the judgement of experienced lawyers , they advised him , or agreed on his urging ( I do not know which ) , that he should issue writs for libel , which he did , with the disastrous effect that he actually accepted some damages from one publication before he was compelled to reveal the falsity of his assertions . |
| 3 | While each family possessed a few reindeer for harnessing to sledges , they had no herds , and depended entirely upon hunting wild deer , which they followed or waylaid on their seasonal migrations . |
| 4 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 5 | They watched among the crowd as Eachuinn Odhar was lifted ashore unconscious , and Hector , under David Beaton 's supervision ; and over a hundred others , to be carried or helped by their keening womenfolk up to castle or clachan . |
| 6 | It is not caused by the absence of encouragement or love , nor prevented or helped by their presence . |
| 7 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 8 | The general structure of this unitary grant system was well designed to achieve these purposes , but the detailed arrangements incorporated a number of elements which either detracted somewhat from the equity of the system or added to its complexity . |
| 9 | Gender is also a particularly important factor in determining whether or not individuals are supported or prevented in their attempts to live independently . |
| 10 | She giggled suddenly and took another swig from the bottle , carelessly wiping away the champagne that trickled down the sides of her mouth with the back of her hand , in a gesture that proved to this man she was n't the least bit impressed or intimidated by his overbearing attitude . |
| 11 | Some described a future Anne unmarried and unhappy , for instance , or told of her helping and subsequently marrying the second-ranked , male student . |
| 12 | The Pack Meeting Hall was now fairly bulging with Christmas gifts they had made or bought , or begged from their mothers . |
| 13 | Coupled with under-funding , this made commercial software development unattractive and many of the major educational publishing companies such as Heinemann , Longman , Oxford University Press , and Macmillan , who had initially invested heavily in software development , eventually retrenched or withdrew from their activities . |
| 14 | Some lots were damaged or dulled by their long immersion , but this only seemed to stimulate buyers . |
| 15 | The King 's main object in forcing the Act through Parliament was to regain the revenue from the perquisites enjoyed by a feudal lord and paid or owed by his tenants , known as the incidents of feudal tenure which had been depleted by the practice of conveying land to uses ( see below , Chapter 5 ) . |
| 16 | At least , if she was unhappy , or fretted for her family , she did n't say so . |
| 17 | And the birds of the air sang in its branches and made nests ; and the insects of the earth swarmed upon it or tunnelled into its leaves , or stems , or fruit , as is their wont . |
| 18 | Her occasional protestations of being moved by Dame Freya 's works or touched by her personality read like sops — a pretence of even-handedness — in a narrative of quiet , relentless aggression . |
| 19 | One occasionally has a glimpse of Green 's neighbours after he has been with them , or heard of their deaths , when he liked to write their obituaries . |
| 20 | So too wealth should be used as a means to good ends , but never be sought or enjoyed for its own sake . |
| 21 | They , and those who have not cohabited , may cross the threshold into marriage without much of a backward glance , feeling sure they have ‘ arrived ’ , thankful for having arrived , found their mate , achieved their haven , caught up with their friends , pleased or escaped from their parents . |
| 22 | No working indigenous community linked with the wild landscape or the people who walked , warred or survived in its past . |
| 23 | Ah that that was that was yes that was really what I was going to er behind my question or included in my question , is that what did you learn from that |
| 24 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 25 | that section engineers at M S four level er acted as project coordinators or looked after their own element of the |
| 26 | And people lived or died by their ability to , to produce a competent result at the end of the day . |
| 27 | This makes it easy to use each crayon as a fine , crisp ‘ tool ’ as well as a blunter one or rubbed on its side . |
| 28 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 29 | Even so , there is a note of baleful realism in his injunction that : none of our own sons should in any circumstances cause any [ of our grandsons ] accused before him to be put to death , or corporally mutilated or blinded or tonsured against his will , without lawful trial and inquiry . |
| 30 | I know Switzerland well , or did on my own time track . |