Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pistoliers are young nobles , knights ' sons who are not old or experienced enough to win their spurs or join the Reiksguard . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's got a nasty enough temper — I just do n't myself see her as clever or organized enough to cover her tracks . |
| 3 | It is Vic 's impression that English wildlife is getting streetwise , moving from the country into the city where the living is easier — where there are no traps , pesticides , hunters and sportsmen , but plenty of well-stocked garbage bins , and housewives like Marjorie , softhearted or softheaded enough to throw their scraps into the garden , creating animal soup-kitchens . |
| 4 | As regards to homework , I just got on with it myself or did n't do it at all . ’ |
| 5 | or did n't think they were |
| 6 | He either failed or did n't take his finals ; I could n't make out which . ’ |
| 7 | or did n't heap its trays with fruit and meat |
| 8 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 9 | But if he had no bill and or did n't pick it up , you 'd tell the proprietor that he must take his own proceedings — he 's swindled you out of the price of a meal and it 's a civil action . |
| 10 | Or did n't to have anything to eat ? |
| 11 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 12 | The fact that their discoveries were either ignored or did not bring their just rewards was partially responsible for inducing a conspiracy mentality . |
| 13 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 14 | But it is useless to start deciding which aspects of behaviour did or did not have their origin in sex . |
| 15 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 16 | But the rest either did not find them so , or did not consider it relevant to their teaching of mathematics . |
| 17 | The caravan is ideally designed as er an exhibition with steps in er either right or left in to see whatever 's on show and then out on the opposite side . |
| 18 | Henry Erskine once remarked of a Scottish judge and freeholder that ‘ he was first my enemy , when I came into power he was my great friend , when I went out he turned cool again & left off cultivating me , in that state we now remain , but I make no doubts were I in again , I should have him back again' . |
| 19 | The research shows that 85% of those asked felt that the split between LW and FM had either suited them well or had not affected them . |
| 20 | Only last week , I spoke to a garage owner who told me that almost every other customer was either losing a job or had just lost one in the past month or so . |
| 21 | Jeopardy had always known the future , or had perhaps chosen it himself that day . |
| 22 | having found themselves for no good reason sitting together : Liz and Alix discovered that both came from Yorkshire , and that neither played lacrosse , nor had ever seen it being played , and Esther joined the discussion by volunteering that she had herself managed to avoid playing netball for the past three years on the grounds that she was too small . |
| 23 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 24 | Artwatch , led by Professor James Beck , has called the tour hasty and sought unsuccessfully to keep it from happening . |
| 25 | I have now resumed and read enough to assure my correspondent that he is lucky that his impatient reminder was directed at me and not at God , whose response to murmurings about the unforeseen delays in reaching the promised land was smiting with pestilence . |
| 26 | Gripping her wrists , he pushed them up on either side of her head , and swooped down to kiss her fiercely , with devastating thoroughness . |
| 27 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
| 28 | She faltered , and fought desperately to get her head together . |
| 29 | They ran health centres ( offering a mixture of self-help , herbal-ism , old wives ' tales and orthodox medicine ) for women finding to their cost that FAMILY had a stronghold in the dwindling official health services ; they dug up neglected laws on sex equality and fought hopelessly to get them obeyed . |
| 30 | But he was polite enough , and got up to greet me . |