Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baudrillard goes even further than this by suggesting that the whole of contemporary life is dedicated to consumption and communication in a way which has become wholly disconnected from meaning and content . |
| 2 | Staff in such hospitals have become increasingly demoralized by criticism and standards have easily declined as a result . |
| 3 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 4 | The hem is left simply overstitched for self-adjustment and there is a double thickness across seat and knees . |
| 5 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 6 | Nationalized industries created additional difficulties ; volume planning often led to overcapacity and excessive output , with huge losses having to be written off . |
| 7 | Back in the kitchen , Carolyn gave Annie a saucer of currants to eat ( she ate them so beautifully , one by one , held painstakingly pincered between thumb and index finger , her other fingers cocked like a tea-sipping lady ) and carried on with the food . |