Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dedicated books to L. Censorinus , consul 149 , and to the poet Lucilius : he praised or perhaps adulated Scipio Aemilianus about 140 . |
| 2 | Practical consciousness describes the occasions when a person knows about the situation he or she is in , and how to behave appropriately , but expresses this in actions or perhaps clichéd words . |
| 3 | The man either feared or greatly respected Michael Collins . |
| 4 | For example , strong tea , coffee , alcohol , fruit juice or highly spiced dishes can bring on Cystitis attacks or make them worse . |
| 5 | Avoid , dilute or try to cut down on liquids or foods which aggravate your Cystitis , such as alcohol , strong tea , coffee , fruit juices or highly spiced dishes . |
| 6 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 7 | ‘ Given there are some 100,000 climbers in the UK and only 100 or so took part , I ca n't help but think that a tremendous message of indifference . |
| 8 | Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase . |
| 9 | Well I think you know , you , you , you , it was an honest answer to , to both questions , cos they did n't say do you smoke a pipe , that you smoke you know or whatever or just said cigarettes . |
| 10 | Between 1962 and 1976 breeding was established , or probably took place , regularly in 17 areas holding between 20 and 25 pairs . |
| 11 | The whole notebook is saved as a complete file and would typically contain a large spreadsheet broken down into more manageable sections , sets of related data or similarly formatted spreadsheets . |
| 12 | 450g/1lb leeks , trimmed , sliced and freshly cooked 1 × 113g/4oz can green chillis in brine for Mexican cooking 25g/1oz butter 3 cloves garlic , crushed or finely chopped 225g/8oz cream cheese salt and pepper 1 × 5ml/tsp paprika watercress to garnish |
| 13 | And he had never yet directly addressed Melanie by her name or even acknowledged Victoria 's presence . |
| 14 | Some sufferers tell hair-raising stories of how they drove long distances or even flew aeroplanes yet had no subsequent recall of having done so . |
| 15 | Another nanny beat Diana on the head with a wooden spoon if she was naughty or alternatively banged Charles and Diana 's heads together . |
| 16 | Subsequent reports indicated that the IAEA in a separate classified report to the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar had identified around 12 companies , mostly German , which had directly or indirectly supplied Iraq with nuclear-weapons related material . |
| 17 | Here the teacher needs the ability to call on different levels of presentation — graded illustrations or examples or maybe graded presentations from pictures through to other more abstract notations . |
| 18 | When he started writing , it was the fashion to pretend that they were happy shepherds and shepherdesses , who were always dancing , or anyhow had hearts of gold . |
| 19 | My parents once or twice mentioned Fatty Arbuckle , seemingly a Hollywood scandal before I was born . |
| 20 | The buildings themselves are no longer self-contained or fully circumscribed forms but are opened up completely into the space around them to form a composition of interpenetrating , shifting planes , suggesting an extremely complicated transparent sculpture in low relief . |
| 21 | Sometimes she managed a rare steak or else ate salad and ice-cream . |
| 22 | Where speech is made criminal by direct reference to its contents , the way is opened for those in authority to censor minority or officially deprecated opinions . |
| 23 | Thus at the top and bottom of the scale all is well , be it at Sheffield , Wakefield or newly amalgamated Roundhay and Headingley , now in the shape of the new Leeds club — or , at the other end , such as Yorkshire Copper Works , Wath upon Dearne or Wetherby . |
| 24 | It was felt by many politicians and officials that local government , in its recent form , was slow and inept so that the departments dealing with local authorities either developed a mass of controls to enable them to watch over local authorities or actually withdrew services from the local authorities . |
| 25 | Outskirters seldom or never saw lettuce . |
| 26 | Neither sociologically nor ideologically did Labour have much to offer . |
| 27 | Nor indeed did Barth pretend to be beyond criticism , though he was not slow to point out where he thought his critics had misunderstood or misrepresented his views . |
| 28 | Neither during his lifetime nor subsequently did Sisley 's paintings achieve the popularity of those of Monet , Renoir , or even Camille Pissarro , with all of whom he helped to forge the Impressionist style . |
| 29 | Neither in his speech on Oct. 16 nor subsequently did Babangida confirm whether the timetable for the end of military rule , envisaging presidential elections on Dec. 5 and the inauguration of a civilian administration on Jan. 2 , 1993 , would be met . |
| 30 | Hill knows the old and new Williams cars inside out and vastly impressed Prost not only for his technical expertise , but also his driving talent in testing at Estoril last week . |