Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People get to the end of their lives and they must realise they have n't seen or experienced anything real . |
| 2 | ‘ People get to the end of their lives and they must realise they have n't seen or experienced anything real . |
| 3 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
| 4 | She has a very strong sense of duty and a great capacity for making relationships , and so far , by some miracle , perhaps because of the very close bond between her and her mother , her experience does not seem to have coarsened her or made her cynical . |
| 5 | ‘ Then maybe you were supposed to cry over milk , because it helped preserve it , or made it easier to turn into cheese . |
| 6 | One of the implications of the Kentish monopoly of certain materials and sources is that other areas must have been either dependent on the Kentish elite for such goods , or sought their own exotic goods by making contacts with elites elsewhere , that is , entering into an entirely different network . |
| 7 | In the larger establishments there were restaurants , theatre , gardens and fountains , a sports stadium , rest rooms and large halls where poets and philosophers exchanged views and authors gave lectures or read their latest works . |
| 8 | At least , I was grateful enough to send them a copy of the thesis , but there is no evidence that they read it or found it useful . |
| 9 | If you 've ever drilled into a water pipe or found it difficult to get a good fixing on a wall , you need a Rapitest Wire , Pipe & Stud Detector . |
| 10 | The architect who advertises for a pupil ( 'talent no consideration' but a premium of £100 required ) might be Dickens 's fictitious Mr Pecksniff , who has never himself designed or built anything real , and trains his pupils on similar lines , ‘ constructing in the air a vast quantity of Castles , Houses of Parliament , and other Public Buildings ’ , a divorce between the idea and the actuality noted by Joe Gargery in the expressive phrase , ‘ drawd too architectooralooral ’ . |
| 11 | Gibbon records that on the day of the decisive battle a ‘ violent tempest ’ blowing in the faces of the defending Romans ‘ disordered their ranks , wrested their weapons from their hands , and diverted or repelled their ineffectual javelins ’ . |
| 12 | If you have an interesting story to tell , whether you 've built your own house or dug your own pool , write to the Editor at the address on the opposite page , and if we publish it , you could get a cash reward ! |
| 13 | So she gave up , and sat between the vines in the hot sun , alternately sleeping and working her way through the dusty volumes of Peregrine Pickle , bound in crimson and gold leather , with real bookworms making agitated forays from their dark crannies into the heat and light across the extraordinary scenes where Smollett 's elderly ladies retained their urine indefinitely to put out putative fires , or sweetened their foul breaths with violet cachous to deceive desired young lovers . |
| 14 | ‘ You saw or heard nothing unusual ? ’ |
| 15 | Nobody who had looked at the bald bullet-head and roly-poly self-confidence of the visitor , or heard his folksy repartee , could fail to have been reminded of an American grass roots politician on tour . |
| 16 | I am more than happy to pay tribute to those gallant and courageous civil servants who led or followed my hon. Friend on that exciting detour on the continent . |
| 17 | Because respectable England , being what it was , did not want to be waited upon by gangling adolescents with spots , nor to have itself paged by unmodulated voices that were just breaking , and youths in such positions invariably got the push when they grew out of the uniform , or lost their boyish looks . |
| 18 | DROP : A player drops a ball when he has hit out of bounds or lost his original ball . |
| 19 | It was n't as if she wanted or needed his complete understanding . |
| 20 | But members of the review team claimed that the remedial measures ignored or misrepresented their main findings . |
| 21 | ‘ Who has said this , or called you this before ? ’ |
| 22 | Where it was strong , it kept men and women on the land , in so far as the land could give them a living , or sent its excess population along the well-beaten traditional tracks of seasonal migration , like those which took the smallholders of central France to and from the building sites of Paris . |
| 23 | The Manchester doctor Thomas Percival reported on a " confinement " which " either cut them off early in life " or rendered them sick and feeble . |
| 24 | It stole away all other colours or rendered them purple , black . |
| 25 | The lad 's prize was a silver shilling , the maids got a shilling and a kiss , and Mrs. Jarrett — well , for one terrified minute she thought she was due a kiss , too , but instead she had a stately one-round waltz on the meadow with the master , while everyone else laughed 206 or cheered or sang their own idea of a waltz tune . |
| 26 | But when she heard or saw nothing more , she dropped the net drape back into place , to disappear once more into the darkness of her house . |
| 27 | Indeed , many blacks were skinheads or formed their own crews , such as the Kilburn Blacks and the Kilburn Whites . |
| 28 | Visitors sent or brought him small gifts . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 30 | At school the ideal of womanhood was based on the assumptions of a different social class : woman 's life was service , the dispensation of charity , whether she was married and dependent , or earned her own living . |