Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not misled or lulled into a sense of false security or anything of that kind . |
| 2 | Text could be created on the Macintosh or passed as a file from any other computer , graphics were catered for by MacPaint , Draw or business graphics programs like Microsoft Chart . |
| 3 | I can then learn by its tic-tic that the robin is at my feet , judge by smell that I have trodden on thyme or bumped into a rosemary bush , and tell by touch that the leaf in my hand is comfrey and not common dock . |
| 4 | For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’ |
| 5 | Thompson stressed that the sine qua non of future co-operation was that ‘ no man 's or woman 's cooperation is to be accepted or rejected by a reference to his or her peculiar religious or non-religious , political or non-political views ’ . |
| 6 | Often this letter of indemnity is issued or countersigned by a bank . |
| 7 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 8 | From now on he either fought on the French side or acted as a neutral between the parties . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) A licence shall have effect in accordance with the following provisions of this section until the quarterly meeting of the licensing board three years after the meeting at which the licence was granted or renewed by a licensing board . |
| 10 | Widely used in Eastern cookery and in strict vegetarian diets in other parts of the world , tofu is bean curd and can be eaten cold or cooked in a number of ways . |
| 11 | The li is not obeyed or defied like a law , one goes either with or against the grain of it , as in chopping wood . |
| 12 | Whether you have just passed your driving test , made your first pot of jam or walked into a room full of strangers , you have been a success . |
| 13 | Jared Tunstall , who manipulated billions of dollars , made and broke men at will , whose power was legendary , had never managed in a clash of wills with the daughter he adored to overcome her , once she had made her mind up , or decided on a course of action . |
| 14 | I do n't want your old man gunning for me when you get drowned or brained by a tree trunk doing ten knots . ’ |
| 15 | Roles may be assigned or deassigned by a user with Project Administator privilege using option 7.2.2 — Update User Details . |
| 16 | or disappeared without a bubble in the soft sponge |
| 17 | It must have been killed in an avalanche or died in a blizzard earlier in the winter . |
| 18 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 19 | The very words ‘ modern art ’ still carry by themselves a charge strong enough to disturb , dishearten , or even repel , some before they 've read a line or listened to a note of whatever work has been given this label . |
| 20 | Executives need to know how to lay on services that are outside normal agency routine : how to set up a direct marketing operation ; organize an effective exhibition ; or lay on a cabaret at a salesmen 's conference . |
| 21 | If insufficient force is maintained , or relaxed for a moment , the aircraft will try and turn which will produce a roll and in next to no time the aircraft is inverted and on its way down . |
| 22 | Other locals , not directly involved with the gangs , but basking in the glory and the protection bought rounds of drinks or waited for a chance to join in the conversation . |
| 23 | All these pipes will cut with a sharp modelling knife , they can be drilled with care , or punched with a piece of tube that has been sharpened to act as a hole cutter . |
| 24 | Although the order of the shots on the original tape can not be changed wholesale , inserts such as titles ( either generated electronically within the camcorder , or shot from a title card directly by the lens in the ordinary way ) can be made . |
| 25 | With regard to the debate about c and Doppler shifts in the letters pages , light ( velocity c ) reflected or emitted from a surface moving with velocity v towards an observer appears to be blue shifted , or red shifted in the case of a receding surface . |
| 26 | Other boys climbed in and out of tanks or queued outside a caravan which advertised a film about combat in the jungle . |
| 27 | On the other hand , they can take many years to achieve full bearing , occupy a lot of space and often have to be picked or tended from a ladder . |
| 28 | She had never used an iron nor threaded a needle , been on a bus nor cooked a meal for other people , earned money , got up early because she had to , waited to see the doctor or stood in a queue . |
| 29 | The Prince either stormed through life like a tornado or idled with a lack of haste that was almost feline . |
| 30 | They must be attentive to all the susceptibilities that people might have in this connection , and ensure that all of them played a part in resolving the tasks that arose in a society of this kind . |