Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day on Chelalo Haig-Thomas or I saw nyala , usually in small parties of cows and immature males ; I once counted a dozen together . |
| 2 | five hundred and fifty five pound all in there 's that one or I found Toyota Caro Carolla , thirteen gear X , X reg , high motor taxed M O T |
| 3 | Significantly lower random haemoglobin A 1 values were found among patients in practices with access to a community or hospital dietitian , with a practice nurse skilled in diabetic care , or which ran miniclinics . |
| 4 | It is particularly instructive , therefore , to give some attention to those institutions which were either freshly conceived in the aftermath of the war , or which achieved university status at that time . |
| 5 | Of course , other interpretations of teaching quality which considered how far different techniques and approaches were chosen to match the circumstances in hand , and others rejected as inappropriate or which respected teachers as active and rational interpreters of their task and the conditions in which it is carried out , might suggest policy implications that would be more troublesome to manage , more expensive to implement , less easy to evaluate in the short term . |
| 6 | He argued that the public did not stand at the box-office window and demand dramas with happy endings or which mixed pathos and humour , nor did it demand comedy made up of ‘ slapstick ’ , ‘ gags ’ with ‘ three or so dashes of serious situation and a bit of irony to top off ’ . |
| 7 | If you want to try Kevin Woodford 's recipe for Lamb in puff pastry ( page 65 ) , or you saw Delia Smith use a pastry trellis in her Christmas cookery series , you 'll need one of these handy lattice pastry cutters . |
| 8 | Whenever I felt low , you 'd go down with ear-ache or you 'd trip over the back step and gash your knee . |
| 9 | Which was , say , when they 'd started the the roll of bacon , there always used to be some little bits before they got the full rashers , well , you could n't sell those , you could n't s I mean even though things were tight in those days , you could n't sell any sort of bacon , you either sold best back , or you sold belly bacon . |
| 10 | In another experiment one of the pair had a non-illusory view ; for example he or she had portholes of plane glass . |
| 11 | The situation is not helped by the writers of " soap operas " who " explain " the behaviour of a murderer , child molester or other deviant by saying that he or she had epilepsy or a brain tumour . |
| 12 | Similarly , a director who is in charge of the company 's research and development programme would not be able to resist a negligence action by claiming that he or she lacked experience or qualifications in the area concerned . |
| 13 | She did n't correct enough or she lost control or maybe she 'd had a few bevvies . |
| 14 | They did not express or reveal but played with her own experience , or she wove fancies from tiny fragments of fact — at least this I sometimes thought I recognized . |
| 15 | Perhaps he or she found justification in a seemingly intolerable accumulation of slights , insults and deprivations … |
| 16 | ‘ We have no idea who the murderer is or how he or she gained access to Sir Ralph , though we did find Sir Fulke 's buckle . ’ |
| 17 | It suffered so brutally from war and killing that even after a second time around , in ‘ 39 , after the havoc of Korea , the cut and thrust of Malaysia and Aden , the carnage of the Falklands and the bizarre media-encouraged sand-deaths in the Gulf — even after all that , the terrible word ‘ Gallipoli ’ is burned deep into the very fibre of every soul who was born in Bury , or who had family there . |
| 18 | Even those who were most curious , or who had bosses who would have been extremely interested to know , forbore to ask North questions . |
| 19 | Any of your readers who caught Bill West in conversation with Melvyn Bragg and Nigella Lawson on ‘ Start the Week ’ , or who read Norman Stone 's review of his book in the Times , would have to assume there were two competing books bearing the same imprimatur — one by an articulate and well-informed author , the other by an incoherent eccentric . |
| 20 | Those coping effectively , who decided to marry the child 's father for other reasons besides the pregnancy , or who arranged adoption or termination of pregnancy , were less likely to become depressed . |
| 21 | Detectives are anxious to interview anyone in Beaumont Street between 11pm and midnight on Sunday or who saw Mr Glenn 's car , later found abandoned in Falmer Road , Darlington . |
| 22 | ‘ In the days before there was much legislation on public health matters , public nuisance was the only offence for which it was possible to prosecute those who stank out the neighbourhood with fumes from glassworks , tanneries and smelters , or who kept pigs in the streets , or kept explosives in dangerous places … |
| 23 | As 105 puts it : It is hard to miss the wit in such poems , or in the earlier profession of incompetence : It would be a dull-witted reader who interpreted such poems literally , or who took au pied de la lettre such conventional statements of bondage as this : Self-depreciation ( sometimes called ‘ the modesty topos ’ has been a rhetorical device since the beginnings of literature and continues in full flourish today . |
| 24 | But what of the farmer who grew crops to feed the enemy 's army , or who paid taxes to the enemy king ( and more and more people were now doing this , in one form or another ) , or whose farmyard provided feathers for enemy arrows ? |
| 25 | Nevertheless , most people who made history , or who instructed juniors how to make it , were concerned with a restricted genealogical range ; so knowledge took on a segmentary , even oppositional character : genealogies varied , for instance , from reciter to reciter and from audience to audience . |
| 26 | Lastly , each spur can feed one single or one double socket outlet , or one fused connection unit . |
| 27 | In most cases , short spacing ( less than one or one completed year ) results more frequently in still births than two-three years ( in many samples four years ) of spacing . |
| 28 | When those patients with none or one recorded diabetes related problem were compared with those with two or more problems they were found to have significantly better control . |
| 29 | Or one picked Washington when the better place was Los Angeles ? |
| 30 | He made some good saves or we hit shots straight at him . ’ |