Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 2 | Whereas before I had more or less ignored the game and engaged myself in gossipy conversation with whoever was E ) laying opposite me , I now began to act out a parody of the ludicrous pastime in which I found myself , tackling everyone in sight , yelling for the ball to be passed to me , jumping up and down , and generally getting in everyone 's way . |
| 3 | Certainly until John got sick his Dad more or less avoided the bedroom . |
| 4 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 5 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 6 | So I more or less had a crew cut . |
| 7 | By this time the Hintons more or less had a monopoly on sugar processing , and more and more land was being turned over to sugarcane production . |
| 8 | The Great War more or less put an end to the era of the great station and with it the period of the pre-eminence of the railways . |
| 9 | Only in the last year or so did the attack flow more regularly to the three-quarters , to make the best use of Cooper 's thrusts from fullback quite often finished off by Timu or an exciting youngster Marc Ellis from the wings . |
| 10 | Previous reports have found that parity did not increase the risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease , increased the risk after a single pregnancy , or only increased the risk after several pregnancies . |
| 11 | Such thoughts soothed me , and then the reality of what had happened would come shooting through my consciousness like a speedboat churning up a calm sea : how dare he decree that I must wear a badge indicating , for men 's convenience , whether I was available or already had an owner ? |
| 12 | But alas , most seemed to have been born with only one or just mislaid the other on the way . |
| 13 | That was the best way to find out how good you were at your job , whether you could regard yourself as being on a par with the best — or still had a lot to learn . |
| 14 | This duty might vary according to the nature of the contract of employment but would be broken if the employee copied or deliberately memorized a list of customers . |
| 15 | He concluded that after the main chute had failed to open , Mr Tipping ( 34 ) either could not locate the handle for the reserve chute or possibly pulled the dummy by mistake as he hurtled towards the ground . |
| 16 | He was pretty non commital about taking the England job saying that England were ‘ still in the WC & still had a manager and a good one at that ’ . |
| 17 | The next stretch northward for a hundred miles or more showed the variety of the Romanian countryside . |
| 18 | For the third day running , 200,000 or more blocked the centre of Prague , cheering Mr Dubcek 's call on the hardline leadership to quit . |
| 19 | For the third day running , 200,000 or more blocked the centre of Prague , cheering Mr Dubcek 's call on the hardline leadership to quit . |
| 20 | The remaining 90 per cent or more included the majority of the peasants . |
| 21 | It will be a question of fact in each case whether the visitor has voluntarily or willingly accepted the risk as his or her own . |
| 22 | The assistant had not deliberately or knowingly misled the plaintiff . |
| 23 | Or even had a holiday job during the summer . |
| 24 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 25 | Might have killed the Canadian engineers , or even derailed the train . |
| 26 | In view of the problems , over time many regions have modified or even abandoned the RAWP cross-boundary flow adjustment method for their subregional allocation . |
| 27 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 28 | Modern legislation had increasingly vested quasi-judicial powers in officials and excluded or indirectly diminished the authority of the courts . |
| 29 | Occasionally , though , a dramatist will uncover someone with an interesting story , regardless of how unknown or vaguely remembered the subject is . |
| 30 | However wrong the opinion expressed may be in point of truth , or however prejudiced the writer , it may still be within the prescribed limit . |