Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one envied or imitated the family . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you rather I simply agreed or told the truth ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | Confusion peaked with the arrival of the rescue teams but they led or carried the survivors to the relative peace of the sick-bay . |
| 4 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 5 | But qualified privilege exempts the person who made or published the statement without malice in the course of their work to a person with a duty or interest to receive it . |
| 6 | What a coup for the bastards , if they kidnapped or murdered the wife of a Cabinet Minister . |
| 7 | Holme Marsh patchy , a draw below 30 prefered or blank a possibility . |
| 8 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 9 | They either furthered or retarded the aim of evolution , which was and always will be , the constant increase in the ability of the being at the head of the evolutionary chain , that is man , to enjoy the experience of life . |
| 10 | Jesus blessed and broke the bread ( Mark 6:41 ) . |
| 11 | Precisely chiselled pegs of a different wood from the rest of the ship , which swelled and secured the timbers once they were immersed in the water , were used instead of nails or screws . |
| 12 | She employed the architect George Devey to build her ‘ Pavilion ’ , where she would spend her days , but for fear of being made ill by the river 's damp fumes she always dined and spent the night with her brother at Waddesdon . |
| 13 | So they re-wrote and re-recorded the text . |
| 14 | I make sure , then prepare to leave , but I want to make it appear that I entered and left the church like a ghost . |
| 15 | From Lizard Point we entered and left the Culdrose MATZ . |
| 16 | She designed and made a gift to the village of a beautiful war memorial — a font cover in bronze and silver of a mother and baby . |
| 17 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 18 | He designed and made the units from timber he found locally and then tiled the worktops . |
| 19 | Jenny makes all the crackers and this year she designed and made the living room decorations , including the red felt pelmet that hangs above the fireplace . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , he designed and wired the control panel and delighted both in his consultant capacity and also in being again involved in his life 's obsession on what to him was virtually home ground . |
| 21 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 22 | For Conrad Dasypodius , however , the mathematician at Strasburg Academy who designed and planned the clock , the nominal essence would be radically different . |
| 23 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |
| 24 | Using scrap metal and steel porter 's barrow , they designed and built a trolley specifically for the job which carries not one but two sets in perfect safety and with greater manoeuvrability . |
| 25 | The re-opening on March 24 celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harrison , the unsung genius who designed and built a series of chronometers 250 years ago . |
| 26 | It is perhaps ironic that this tablet is one of the few on the market which can be interfaced with the Dragon computer as the company which makes it is the remnants of the firm which designed and built the Dragon . |
| 27 | In 1888 , in association with ( Sir ) George Newnes [ q.v. ] , a local benefactor , founder of Tit-Bits and Liberal MP for Newmarket , he designed and built the Lynton and Lynmouth cliff railway . |
| 28 | Wastell also designed and built the pinnacles and corner towers , and the vaults of the porches from 1513 , as well as the vaults of nine of the choir chapels . |
| 29 | They specifically described and recommended the use of coitus interruptus and other contraceptive methods in marriage . |
| 30 | Finbar O'Doherty presided and denounced the RUC ban on the original route : ‘ On future occasions the question of a police ban at the dictates of their Orange masters would be a matter for meeting in a different manner . ' |