Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform .
2 Few people in the West knew or cared very much if they did .
3 ‘ We do n't know that anyone was killed or injured near there so there should n't be anyone haunting it . ’
4 Will you allow me , Mr. Speaker , briefly to offer my deepest sympathy , by way of a supplementary question , to the families of those who were so horrifically murdered or injured both yesterday and today in Belfast ?
5 Alternatively , he or she may suggest that the inspection chamber is left in operation , fitted with an airtight cover bolted or screwed down so that it can be removed if necessary .
6 ( 12 ) Any notice required to be given under this Article by the Company to a Member or by a Member to the Company shall be given or served either personally or by sending it by first class post to the registered office of the Company or , as the case may be , to the registered address of the Member or ( if he has no registered address within the United Kingdom ) to the address , if any , within the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him .
7 ( 12 ) Any notice required to be given under this Article by the Company to a Member or by a Member to the Company shall be given or served either personally or by sending it by first class post to the registered office of the Company or , as the case may be , to the registered address of the Member or ( if he has no registered address within the United Kingdom ) to the address , if any , within the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him .
8 If possible , ask for it to be omitted or served separately so that you can help yourself — to a minimum !
9 Really ugly doors can be replaced or left off altogether and the space widened to form an archway , although this will inevitably increase draughts and the demands on your heating system .
10 Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems .
11 In the US , farmers work the soil so hard that around five billion tonnes are blown or washed away annually and an area twice the size of California has been rendered unproductive .
12 We will ensure that the card is returned or re-issued as quickly as possible .
13 In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles .
14 The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 .
15 The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition .
16 The Community Land Scheme was complex , and became increasingly so as regulations , directions and circulars followed the passing of the two Acts .
17 He sounded agitated , and became more so when Gentle identified himself .
18 ‘ That is up to you , ’ said Fael-Inis , and without warning his eyes grew remote and fiery ; they became inward-looking , and slanted more strongly than before .
19 Benedicta 's eyes rounded in surprise but she smiled and agreed so quickly that the friar wondered if she , too , felt the kinship between them .
20 That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral .
21 Leese considered the initials of the organization to be unfortunate , and argued quite logically that it was misnamed , as its platform had little to do with fascism .
22 I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born .
23 Moving into summer , he took advantage of the dry weather and lived more outdoors than in , drawing the same subjects repeatedly if they appealed to him , toiling incessantly in an effort to improve himself .
24 Our aim is to ensure that food is wholesome , of high quality and produced as economically as possible and to ensure that , not only in the United Kingdom but in the export market , people have the benefits of an outstanding product .
25 At 7 p.m. on the twenty-seventh , another outbreak of fairly violent explosive activity occurred , and got progressively more and more vigorous until 11 p.m. when it started to decline .
26 In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market .
27 Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord .
28 I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line .
29 It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood .
30 In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden .
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