Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 2 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 3 | What name have you given to the Water Hen which migrates to us yearly — or which did migrate last year and the year before . |
| 4 | Either that or she 'd got two woollies on . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 6 | Patients with abnormal findings at endoscopy or who had had previous surgery were excluded from the study . |
| 7 | When we observe this , we should either refresh his mind by saying something with becoming liveliness or something calculated to arouse great wonder and amazement , or even grief and lamentation . |
| 8 | They did so in the face of widespread steel closures , rising unemployment , and knowledge about their poor prospects of re-employment , or they had had enough of work and felt they deserved a rest . |
| 9 | Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 11 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 12 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 13 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 14 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
| 15 | and I 'd lost half a stone in weight . |
| 16 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 17 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 18 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 19 | I 'd done some wedding stationery for a friend , and I 'd painted two hundred and twenty pieces , er erm , sheets of wedding stationery for her , with erm , bud roses and things , I think I might have shown you one , actually . |
| 20 | And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder ! |
| 21 | ‘ I came straight to Cochabamba with my family because we were lucky enough to have the money from my book and I 'd bought this land before leaving Bolivia in 1980 . |
| 22 | for one thing , if we 'd taken one of their houses and I 'd died first , my wife would of been left without a home |
| 23 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 24 | to take cough and things like , and I nearly died the other night , I 'd taken one and I 'd taken some of this cough , |
| 25 | Both of them are rotten drivers and I 'd had enough painful experiences for one day . |
| 26 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 27 | I 'd dithered , and I 'd got tired and I 'd gone off and been |
| 28 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 29 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 30 | And I 'd got all me bits , different books out preparing for the crucifixion . |