Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 4 | Once , it was a pop cliche that the records which mattered most to you were the ones which marked your earliest sexual encounters or which signposted key events in your adolescence . |
| 5 | The race was only open to vehicles which ran on unorthodox fuels , or which had internal combustion engines modified for greater energy efficiency . |
| 6 | Thorndyke inserted another statement further on in the passage which was either neutral with respect to possible inferences or which supported particular inferences . |
| 7 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 8 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |
| 9 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
| 10 | However , there are both practical and legal problems in cases where the woman says that she consented through fear only : she did not resist , because she thought that it would be hopeless in the circumstances , she was terrified , or she feared serious violence . |
| 11 | The subjects in one of the trials referred to were patients in whom pain control was inadequate or who had appreciable side effects , which is why the cerebrospinal fluid was accessed . |
| 12 | Shaikhs collected money from members of their lineages to support those who had no other support , or who had heavy expenses of certain kinds ( educational or medical , but not business expenses ) which they could not meet ; but these were in no sense an attempt to redistribute resources . |
| 13 | Those who held forth in the Royal Institution in the second half of the nineteenth century , or who addressed large audiences at the British Association or its equivalents in other countries , were confident ; and they had reason for their confidence . |
| 14 | The number of voters who cited social issues as their top priority ‘ or who claimed such issues were ‘ extremely important ’ to their voting decision , hardly varied at all throughout the campaign . |
| 15 | A person who was swept along by the crowd ( in a literal bodily sense ) , or who encountered unexpected barriers when attempting to comply with police conditions , would be able to avail himself of this defence . |
| 16 | Existing members of pension schemes set up prior to the 1989 Budget or who joined established schemes before 1 June 1989 may not be affected by the rule and may be entitled to a higher tax-free lump sum . |
| 17 | Adam Smith believed that competition among capitalists would give the public the opportunity to compare the quality and prices of goods , so that producers who were inefficient or who charged excessive prices would be put out of business . |
| 18 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 19 | The other boys either had enormous appetites for books of many kinds , or they had native wit . |
| 20 | The big supermarkets , or what seemed big supermarkets then , which disfigured numerous high streets in the 1960s , have now been replaced by a much larger generation of stores . |
| 21 | For instance , there is no exploration of whether gender identity can be constructed in this way or what told these people that they were not the ’ right ’ sex . |
| 22 | No-one knows for certain where she was going or what happened that summer of 1983 . |
| 23 | However , neither Gabriel 's lab nor ours had much idea of how , if at all , the IMHV and the LPO might be functionally connected , or what part each region played in the general economy of the brain . |
| 24 | THOMPSON : ‘ The thing with Bill Shankly was that we were always a family and everyone knew each other from the cleaning lady to the girls in the ticket office . |
| 25 | Faith had disposed of the money and belongings as she chose and everyone had that right , at the very least . |
| 26 | Jerry looked up to me as his hero ; the rapport and affinity between him and me transcended all things ; with us it was true brotherly love , which exists to this day , with no ulterior motives … no payments … no conditions . |
| 27 | Father-in-law and me soldiered six weeks to restore it looks now . |
| 28 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 29 | He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’ |
| 30 | As Mr Charles , our chief male nurse and I passed each other on our way to and from the admission ward and our offices we had first one and then another sorry tale to tell . |