Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | While the men 's event appears wide open , the women 's raced is centred around last year 's winner , Rosa Mota , from Portugal . |
2 | You realize they 'd have been kicking out second helpings . |
3 | There , among the junk mail and bills delivered while she had been riding out first lot , was an envelope written in a careful , neat hand . |
4 | Last December , Congress charged that money set aside for cleaning up several of the 400 ‘ top-priority ’ dumps had been held up last autumn so as not to benefit local Democratic officeholders , who were fighting off Republican challengers in the November elections . |
5 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |