Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Doctor stalked about the room , or fiddled with the door , or argued with the guards , the three others had sat on the floor and exchanged their stories . |
| 2 | That was done because the applicants did a detailed traffic survey , albeit on a Wednesday afternoon , and the county council had n't done a detailed traffic survey , so they felt that if they went to appeal without that detailed traffic survey to back 'em up , they would have been rightly shouted that , or disputed by the applicants that had done one . |
| 3 | The book is not confined to the needs of the conveyancing practitioner , however ; it is thought that the divorce practitioner should also have knowledge of the different types of conveyance which may be ordered by the court or agreed between the parties and the points which should be taken into account at that time , the protective measures that might be taken before the conveyance is concluded and the documentation that may be required in dealing with life policies . |
| 4 | Many volunteers acted as models or helped behind the scenes with refreshments and raffle tickets . |
| 5 | When the legal meaning of a term is given to , or arrogated by the courts , then of course the phrase error of law implies a deviation from that standard . |
| 6 | Numerous chapels are set in or added to the walls but the chief area for this is the chevet . |
| 7 | Older siblings living in mainland Scotland were not permitted to see or communicate with their younger brothers and sisters , even though they were in no way involved or implicated in the allegations that had been made against the parents . |
| 8 | A secondary copy of all information items generated or received within the departments would be held in the Registry on microfilm . |
| 9 | There is no allegation that any part of the money paid by the investors for the Euramco shares was paid to or received by the solicitors . |
| 10 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 11 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 12 | The only real element of surprise lay in the fact that little had been seen or heard of the extremists since the Republicans ' dramatic rise on the West German political scene in 1989 . |
| 13 | In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends , or walked through the fields with Diana , or sat talking to Matthew . |
| 14 | Some have criminal convictions , all say they have been cautioned or warned by the police several times . |
| 15 | The talk was general , candlelit faces leaned across the table and the hands which peeled the fruit or fidgeted with the glasses were as individual as the faces . |
| 16 | Whilst their families were moved into tower blocks or disappeared to the suburbs , skinheads tried to ‘ magically ’ reclaim this lost solidarity of the parent culture . |
| 17 | Bullets drilled into wood or stone or sang off the walls with a loud whine . |
| 18 | None of the family spoke or looked at the others . |
| 19 | Data recording and assessment of results were carried out by a member of the unit who did not participate in endoscopic treatment or looked after the patients . |
| 20 | They slipped on the blood-slicked cobbles or tripped on the bodies that choked the ground . |
| 21 | One by one the men emerged from the huts or appeared among the trees on the top of the bank . |
| 22 | Less common was the Doric peplos , a sleeveless tunic with overfold gathered in at the waist , the whole pinned or buttoned at the shoulders . |
| 23 | In particular the teaching force will not be regenerated or remotivated in the ways that are necessary ( and possible ) , and which alone will lead to the real and sustained improvements in the quality of the service delivered to pupils . |
| 24 | It is like the wind that hurtled across the desert or whistled through the cedars or rushed down the wadis . |
| 25 | They are the dishes invented or popularized by the bargemen of the Rhone and their wives , and by the proprietors of the humble inns and charcuteries who used to cater for the men who worked the inland waterways . |
| 26 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 27 | Certainly after that incident and all the erm the very overly dramatic publicity that centred on the flats . |
| 28 | Who knows , Mrs. Chamberlayne , The differences that made to the natives who were dying Or the state of mind in which they died ? |
| 29 | AT THE time of the last Gusher , the Safety project team were actively investigating trends in accident type and frequency that applied to the platforms and trades particularly relevant to WGEC . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the Americans ’ first goal against England . |