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 . ’
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