Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 2 | Dawn has never bent or broken a feather in two and a half years . |
| 3 | Because the internal fabric and walls of the flats always remained cold , it meant that when any warm moist air was produced when people breathed or boiled a kettle , the steam condensed on the cold surfaces which was the ideal breeding conditions for the fungus . |
| 4 | As times when you have been very busy and may have missed or delayed a meal , your blood glucose levels can fall . |
| 5 | She has never hurled a grenade or primed a bomb in her life . |
| 6 | The readers who wrote to us could have read a book , heard a story , or seen a film , and then forgotten about it . |
| 7 | I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so . |
| 8 | Especially if you 've paid or done a lot to get in — whether it 's the snooker hall or the Garrick . ’ |
| 9 | Say absolutely nothing when you 've lost or drawn a game , tell them how brilliant the team is when you 've won . ’ |
| 10 | How many times have you bought something that has let you down ( and not complained ) or worn a garment for just one season simply because it was the latest gimmick ? |
| 11 | For example Charlesworth et al , 1984 , by analysis of 1979/80 survey data on 255 elderly people and their 157 carers in north-west England , found that 22 per cent of the carers felt their caring role had either exacerbated or caused a health problem for them ; 38 per cent had experienced some restriction in relation to work , and 44 per cent some restriction on their leisure time . |
| 12 | In the extraordinary procedure , however , the magistrate either dealt with the case himself or appointed a deputy ( iudex pedaneus ) . |
| 13 | Sealed units must have destroyed at lot of the or taken a chunk out of the market . |
| 14 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
| 15 | A school leaver in 1976 , he had never owned a camera or taken a picture . |
| 16 | But the man beside her would no more have walked or ridden a motorcycle than he would have willingly been parted from this — this blatant symbol of money . |
| 17 | if , during a dictation practice , the majority of students have an abnormally high number of spelling errors , one might infer that the teacher has either dictated too fast or chosen a passage too difficult for the level of that class . |
| 18 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 19 | Now these companies must reveal , if asked , where the data they hold on you came from — whether , for example , they have bought or rented a list from another organisation or collected the information themselves . |
| 20 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 21 | If the creditor had , before the commencement of the bankruptcy , issued execution against the debtor 's goods or attached a debt due to him , that creditor is not entitled to retain the benefit of his execution or attachment unless the execution or attachment had been completed before the commencement of the bankruptcy ( s 346(1) ) . |
| 22 | He had neither glanced down nor passed a fingertip over the edges of the leaves , to determine how far advanced in the book his page might be . |
| 23 | In Salford , according to The Guardian , sodium chloride had exploded and wrecked a warehouse . |
| 24 | Malawi 's answer to Dr Finlay examined Warrington thoroughly , diagnosed ‘ problems in the marriage area , ’ and prescribed a draught of aphrodisiac tea . |
| 25 | That evening you visited your GP who told you to take it easy and prescribed a course of tranquillizers . |
| 26 | A doctor was called out and he diagnosed some kind of virus and prescribed a course of antibiotics . |
| 27 | Drago applied his fingers to some of the strings and adjusted a turnkey on the end of one of the tusks . |
| 28 | ‘ In a word — fantastic ! ’ she replied , and would have trotted out all she 'd seen again , had not a waiter come along and placed a menu in her hands . |
| 29 | Then she coaxed her employer into a fresh nightgown and placed a clean , although old-fashioned day-cap of cotton and lace upon the freshly washed and combed hair . |
| 30 | On Monday she finally knelt on the ground where he was killed and placed a wreath to his memory . |