Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 2 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 3 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 4 | or used the wrong form of his name ? |
| 5 | If that were the case , it would n't make sense to ask who , or what , caused or created the big bang . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Using the debates between German chemists who supported or rejected the new chemistry , he paints a convincing picture to support and amplify Kuhn 's views . |
| 8 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 9 | When the opportunity presented itself some Arab states , for example Egypt ( which formally repudiated its treaty in 1976 ) and Iraq ( 1952–3 ) , discarded or downgraded the Soviet Union in their foreign relations and cultivated the United States . |
| 10 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 11 | Knitters unpicked old jumpers , washed or seamed the unravelled wool and reknitted it . |
| 12 | He described local people dropping dead from starvation or being torn apart by Serb shelling as they sought shelter or scoured the snowy terrain for anything edible . |
| 13 | Where the person is present or represented the following wording may be used : Unless by [ 4 pm on Friday 13 June 19 ] The defendant [ serves his list of documents ] the defence be struck out and judgment entered for the plaintiff with costs . |
| 14 | Within that first fraction of potential benefit , I classified the endorsement of ‘ science ’ in place of the separate sciences that have for so long unbalanced or distorted the secondary curriculum ; the opportunity to rethink the nature and role of technology ; and the challenge to begin planning , for all secondary students , a foundation course in a foreign language . |
| 15 | Whatever your kind of break , the abundance of things to see and do makes Brighton & Hove the right place to head for any time of year . |
| 16 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
| 17 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 18 | Or did the partial substitutions usually fail causing dead-ends in the lattice ? |
| 19 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 20 | As they approach the viewer whether from right or left the far-side wing , perspective wise , will lead the near wing . |
| 21 | This is not to say that workers necessarily believed or accepted the new image of employers especially as during the 1950s memories of the pre-war era were clearly resonant . |
| 22 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 23 | Although there are few Sussex equivalents to the great wool churches elsewhere , the wealthier endowed chantries in a number of churches for saying masses for the dead , or funded the numerous leper hospitals and almshouses around the towns . |
| 24 | The internal contradictions of Polish society were revealed by external invasion , and — particularly in Pomerania and Danzig — people who felt themselves to be marginal to Polish life either succumbed slowly and reluctantly or embraced the new identities on offer with enthusiasm . |
| 25 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 26 | But such men neither exercised the extreme severity , nor attracted the bitter odium , of Passelewe and Langley . |
| 27 | The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope . |
| 28 | Nor did the other women seem to be responding quite as she expected . |
| 29 | Nor did the other guests seem to suspect anything . |
| 30 | Nor did the general public have a very high regard of embalming , believing it to be another unnecessary luxury meted out to the corpses of the rich . |