Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 2 | That the subject was in fact normally accorded Cinderella status mattered little to the many who objected to its being there at all . |
| 3 | Pride in the nation 's system of government , once shared by all , has degenerated into complacency about its superiority , believed only by the few who exercise the near despotic powers that its outmoded forms have given them . |
| 4 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 5 | If one runs out of the latter one can use paper tissues instead , though I would n't recommend them for pressing fragile flower heads as the tissues can leave a slight pattern on the petals . |