Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one envied or imitated the family . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you rather I simply agreed or told the truth ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | Confusion peaked with the arrival of the rescue teams but they led or carried the survivors to the relative peace of the sick-bay . |
| 4 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 5 | But qualified privilege exempts the person who made or published the statement without malice in the course of their work to a person with a duty or interest to receive it . |
| 6 | What a coup for the bastards , if they kidnapped or murdered the wife of a Cabinet Minister . |
| 7 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 8 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 9 | They either furthered or retarded the aim of evolution , which was and always will be , the constant increase in the ability of the being at the head of the evolutionary chain , that is man , to enjoy the experience of life . |
| 10 | And all the rime you knew that you would never take the risk of getting shot which this involved or have the necessary patience to carry it out . |
| 11 | Mossad proposed that to conceal the plan they would send TOW missiles to Iran from their own stocks and America would ship them replenishments . |
| 12 | In addition to demonstrating the ease with which rats substitute one movement for another in reaching their goal he also demonstrated that cutting the nerve fibres that join the visual to the motor cortex does not interfere with associative learning , as Pavlov had predicted it would . |
| 13 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 14 | Statements in favour of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ and the ‘ freedom to publish ’ — from Milton 's Areopagitica of 1644 onwards — were , therefore , intended as replies to those who maintained that granting the press its freedom would pose threats to the stability of the state . |
| 15 | He also found that moulding the right shape was more important than pecking up loose stuff , and that they would mould in a bean bag as well as in straw . |
| 16 | In his study of Portuguese and English versions of Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 : 6 ) found that abandoning the thematic organization of the source language , in this case Portuguese , ‘ often gives a perfectly acceptable English text ’ . |
| 17 | I found that raising the volume helped to improve the realism but I would have like more presence and crisper definition . |
| 18 | And , by extending this line of argument , he found that surrounding the flame by a wire gauze had the same cooling effect . |
| 19 | The Times of June 8 reported that following the riots the government had granted Belgian nationality to 40,000 immigrants , most of whom came from north Africa , and had made it easier for those born in Belgium of foreign parents to gain citizenship . |
| 20 | We went to the museum with all aspects of the Great Western Railway and finally to the gift shop , the only one we visited that had the Bishop 's Castle Railway book on sale . |
| 21 | Jesus blessed and broke the bread ( Mark 6:41 ) . |
| 22 | The Samaritan stopped , helped and rescued the unfortunate traveller . |
| 23 | Precisely chiselled pegs of a different wood from the rest of the ship , which swelled and secured the timbers once they were immersed in the water , were used instead of nails or screws . |
| 24 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 25 | She employed the architect George Devey to build her ‘ Pavilion ’ , where she would spend her days , but for fear of being made ill by the river 's damp fumes she always dined and spent the night with her brother at Waddesdon . |
| 26 | So they re-wrote and re-recorded the text . |
| 27 | From Lizard Point we entered and left the Culdrose MATZ . |
| 28 | I make sure , then prepare to leave , but I want to make it appear that I entered and left the church like a ghost . |
| 29 | Jenny makes all the crackers and this year she designed and made the living room decorations , including the red felt pelmet that hangs above the fireplace . |
| 30 | Right : Philip designed and made the circular dining table using smoky blue glass |